Bharat Tandon

Bharat Tandon is a Lecturer in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (UEA), where he teaches British and American literature from the 18th century to the present. He previously taught at the University of Cambridge (1995–2006) and the University of Oxford (2006–2011) before joining UEA in 2012. He is a member of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group and an International Collaborator at the Inter-University Center for the Study of Romanticism, University of Bologna.

His educational background includes undergraduate and graduate studies in English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Tandon’s research centers on British literature from 1700 to the present and American literature from 1900 onward. Key interests include Jane Austen, Victorian novelists (Dickens, Eliot, Hardy), Romantic fiction, literary style, narrative form, and the representation of urban space and haunting in 19th-century writing. He has a strong focus on how literary style reflects historical and cultural contexts. His work often bridges academic scholarship and public intellectual engagement.

His recent publications span from academic chapters on Austen’s use of numbers and Dickensian style to cultural commentary in The Times Literary Supplement. Collectively, these works reveal a deep engagement with narrative technique, textual materiality, and the cultural afterlives of literary figures. His writing combines close reading with broad cultural analysis, particularly in the realms of realism, modernism, and literary heritage.

Scientific Awards and Recognition:

• Judge, Man Booker Prize for Fiction (2012)

Tandon is actively involved in graduate supervision, welcoming PhD students in areas such as Romantic fiction, Victorian literature, and contemporary British fiction. His public engagement includes over sixty contributions to The Times Literary Supplement and media appearances on Jane Austen and literary culture. He is currently working on a monograph titled Ghosts of Sound: Haunting Figures in Victorian Writing and interdisciplinary projects on numbers in realist fiction and representations of writing in 19th-century literature.

He is affiliated with research groups at UEA and the University of Bologna, contributing to collaborative studies in Romanticism and 19th-century literary culture.