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Pritika Pradhan is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, where she joined in 2023. She bridges academic and creative writing, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to literature. Her work explores the interplay between Victorian aesthetics, postcolonial legacies, and modern subjectivity.
Education includes a PhD in English from Rutgers University (2012–2019), an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato (2020–2023), and two BA degrees in English: from Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge (2009–2011), and Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi (2006–2009).
Research interests focus on the long nineteenth century in Britain and its empire, Victorian realism, modernist poetry, and their legacies in contemporary South Asian and African literature. She examines how details in Victorian works shaped modern subjectivity and hybrid cultural forms in colonial India. Her first book project, Modernity’s Marks, traces this through writers like Ruskin and Woolf, while her second project, Observant Owls, explores colonial Indian aesthetic hybridity.
She has received the International Creative Writing Teaching Scholar (2021) and Events Funding from the British Association for Victorian Studies (2024). These awards underscore her contributions to both scholarly and creative fields.
In teaching, Pritika convenes the MA in Victorian Literature and Culture and teaches undergraduate modules like World of Literature II: Empire and Aftermaths, alongside postgraduate courses on Victorian authors and colonial Indian writers. She welcomes research inquiries merging creative writing with academic rigor. Her creative works include short fiction in Emerald City and public essays in Electric Literature, alongside a novel-in-progress, The Transient, examining immigrant identity. She previously co-edited Blue Earth Review and founded River Whale, a literary journal.
