Academic publications and conference presentations by Dr Maitrayee Roychoudhury, Global Victorian Studies scholar and mobility studies researcher. https://www.maitrayee.me/ en-gb https://www.maitrayee.me/publications/ https://www.maitrayee.me/publications#'Poison as Deadly as Any of Caesar Borgia's': Settler Colonialism and 'Toxic' Masculinity in Fergus Hume's Melbourne Trilogy Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Journal Article · Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Autumn 2026. An article on settler colonialism, race, and masculinity in the Melbourne trilogy of the Victorian crime novelist Fergus Hume. https://www.maitrayee.me/publications/ https://www.maitrayee.me/publications#Tracing the 'Dry Bones' of Empire: Fergus Hume's Hagar of the Pawnshop Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Book Chapter · Close Reading the Nineteenth Century, edited by Jane Stabler and Simon Kövesi, Palgrave, 2026. A chapter on Fergus Hume's Hagar of the Pawnshop and its Romani detective, developed from a paper presented at The Travelling Nineteenth Century, the c19c annual conference at the University of St Andrews, in May 2024. https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#Archēglyph: Re-imaging Archives through Cross-disciplinary Collaborations Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Conference Paper · Collaborations, the annual conference of c19c, the Cross Cultural Circa Nineteenth Century Research Centre, University of St Andrews (27 April 2026). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#दाई (Dai), বেশ্যা (Beshya), and নবীনা (Nobeena): The Indian Female Detective in the Long Nineteenth Century Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT Conference Paper · Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global 19th Century, University of St Andrews (28–29 August 2025). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#Missing! The Indian Female Detective in the Long Nineteenth Century Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT Conference Paper · The Critical Lenses of the c19thc Global South, the annual conference of c19c, the Cross Cultural Circa Nineteenth Century Research Centre, University of St Andrews (28 April 2025). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#SGSAH Funded PhD Experience Roundtable Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:00:00 GMT Roundtable · SGSAH Cohort Induction, Virtual Event, Scotland (16 October 2024). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#The Moving Gaze and its Captured Subjects Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:00:00 GMT Conference Paper · Places and Spaces in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture, the Victorian Popular Fiction Association’s annual conference, Online (15–17 July 2024). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#Tracing the ‘Dry Bones’ of Empire: Fergus Hume’s Hagar of the Pawn-shop, Gypsy Detective Thu, 30 May 2024 12:00:00 GMT Conference Paper · The Travelling Nineteenth Century, the annual conference of c19c, the Cross Cultural Circa Nineteenth Century Research Centre, University of St Andrews (30 May 2024). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#The Moving Gaze and its Captured Subjects: The Victorian Female Detective in the Colonies Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:00:00 GMT Seminar · PG Forum, School of English, University of St Andrews, St Andrews (26 March 2024). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#Q&A Session: Applying for PhD Funding Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:00:00 GMT Workshop · School of English, University of St Andrews, St Andrews (12 March 2024). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#मैंने फ़्लायओवर क्रॉस कर लिया (“I have crossed the flyover”): Subversive Mobilities and the Female Cyclist Tue, 12 Dec 2023 12:00:00 GMT Invited Lecture · Add-on certificate course on Urban Studies, Sophia College for Women, Mumbai, India (12 December 2023). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#Embodied Resistance: Visual Representation and the Victorian Female Detective Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:00:00 GMT Conference Paper · Unsuitable Women: Fictional Detectives from Bombay to London, a panel hosted by the Department of English, ARSD College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India (5 September 2023). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#The Economics of Marriage in Pride and Prejudice Mon, 04 Sep 2023 12:00:00 GMT Invited Lecture · ARSD College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India (4 September 2023). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#Leap into a PhD: SGSAH Summer School Roundtable Wed, 05 Jul 2023 12:00:00 GMT Roundtable · SGSAH Summer School, Virtual, Scotland (5 July 2023). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#Carroll’s Nonsenseverse: Linguistic Inversion and the Politics of Subversion in Through the Looking-Glass Thu, 26 Nov 2020 12:00:00 GMT Invited Lecture · Two-part online lecture, Department of English, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, Online (17 and 26 November 2020). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#Resistance, Reclamation, Recovery: Marie Clements and Subversion in Unnatural and Accidental Women Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:00:00 GMT Invited Lecture · Department of English, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India (16 April 2019). https://www.maitrayee.me/publications/ https://www.maitrayee.me/publications#How David Came up Trumps: The NIRF and the Rise of Off Campus Colleges Sat, 01 Jul 2017 12:00:00 GMT Journal Article · The Discussant: Journal of the Centre for Reforms, Development and Justice, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 7–16. An analysis of the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) and its impact on the proliferation of off-campus colleges in the Indian higher education landscape. https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#Officers in Petticoats: The Earliest Female Detectives in Victorian Literature Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:00:00 GMT Conference Paper · Unravelling Crime: Readings in Cinema, Fiction and Reportage, a panel at the Department of English, Hansraj College, New Delhi, India (25 October 2016). https://scroll.in/article/809729/ https://www.maitrayee.me/publications#This History of Indian Food Goes Where No Food Historian (or Instagram Photo) Has Ever Gone Before Fri, 01 Jul 2016 12:00:00 GMT Book Review · Scroll.in. A review exploring the cultural and historical dimensions of Indian food history. https://www.maitrayee.me/publications/ https://www.maitrayee.me/publications#She-Kings, Sprinters, and Aviators: Ama Ata Aidoo's Radical Women-scapes Wed, 01 Jul 2015 12:00:00 GMT Book Chapter · A Warble of Postcolonial Voices: An Anthology of Short Stories and Poems, vol. 1: Short Stories, ed. Someshwar Sati, pp. 125–155. New Delhi: Worldview. A feminist and postcolonial reading of Ama Ata Aidoo's fiction, examining how her women characters challenge spatial and political boundaries through radical re-configurations of landscape and selfhood. https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#Grant Allen’s Hilda Wade: The Fin de siècle and the New Woman Detective Wed, 04 Mar 2015 12:00:00 GMT Conference Paper · Panel on the Fin de Siècle, Department of English, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India (4 March 2015). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#Strong Arms, Sturdy Feet: Subversion in Three Victorian Fairy Tales Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT Conference Paper · Practices of Reading, Writing and Publishing Children’s Literature, a panel discussion at Hansraj College, New Delhi, India (25 February 2013). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#The ‘Petticoated Eye’: Conflicts of Gender, Class, and Genre in the Figure of the Victorian Lady Detective Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT Conference Paper · Body of Evidence: The Crime Fiction Conference, St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, India (24–26 February 2012). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#Women Who Stand Alone: Kate Chopin’s The Awakening Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT Conference Paper · National conference on Gender and Writing, Ramjas College, New Delhi, India (16–17 February 2012). https://www.maitrayee.me/talks/ https://www.maitrayee.me/talks#The Same Nation, Different Pasts: Kipling and Nesbit’s Britain Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT Conference Paper · Figuring the Past: The Literary and Historical Imagination, the annual international seminar of the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India (March 2011). http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/collins/roychoudhury.html https://www.maitrayee.me/publications#Rent Hearths and Fragmented Selves: Disordered Spaces in The Moonstone Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT Article · Victorian Web. An analysis of spatial disorder in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, examining how the novel's treatment of domestic and imperial space reflects fractured identities and the instability of the Victorian household in the wake of colonial encounter. https://web.archive.org/web/20120611062814/http://www.quietmountainessays.org/Roychoudhury.html https://www.maitrayee.me/publications#H.D.'s Palimpsest: A Feminist Historiography of Dissent Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT Article · Quiet Mountain: New Feminist Essays, vol. 7, no. 4. An examination of H.D.'s Palimpsest as a feminist historiographical project, reading the text's layered narrative structure as a mode of dissent against patriarchal literary history.