Teaching

My undergraduate teaching in the University of Delhi system runs alongside, rather than separately from, my research. Courses on Victorian and nineteenth-century literature draw directly on the same primary texts and questions of gender, space, and mobility that inform the doctoral project described on the research page, and my teaching in popular fiction and genre gives students a way into detective and sensation fiction before they encounter the more specialised Bengali and transnational material.

Two invited lectures below sit outside this core area — on Lewis Carroll’s linguistic play in Through the Looking-Glass and on the economics of marriage in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice — and reflect the wider undergraduate syllabus I teach across, which is not limited to my own research specialism.

Administrative and pastoral roles have generally followed from teaching rather than the reverse: my terms as Convenor of the Media Cell and the Film Appreciation Society at ARSD College (2017–2019), and as Faculty Advisor to the English Literary Society at Lady Shri Ram College, grew out of departmental teaching responsibilities rather than a separate administrative track.