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About Riya Das

Riya Das is Assistant Professor of English (British/World Literature) at Prairie View A&M University. She earned her PhD in English from Binghamton University, SUNY. Her first book, Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature, was funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant and is forthcoming from the The Ohio State UP. Das is currently working on the first-ever critical edition of Mona Caird's novel The Daughters of Danaus, also funded by an NEH fellowship and under contract at Edinburgh UP, and her next monograph project, Trans-Victorian Transgressions. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Victorians Institute Journal, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, and other venues. For more information, please visit her website, https://riyadas.weebly.com/ 

Positions

Present Faculty Member, Prairie View A&M University
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Grants

2024 - 2024 ACLS HBCU Fellowship Finalist Grant for Book Project
American Council of Learned Societies
Role: Solo Principal Investigator (PI)
$500.00
2024 - 2024 NEH Federal Grant for Book Project
National Endowment for the Humanities
Role: Solo Principal Investigator (PI)
$30,000.00
2022 - 2023 NEH Federal Grant for Book Project
National Endowment for the Humanities
Role: Solo Principal Investigator (PI)
$60,000.00
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Peer-reviewed journal article (9)

Peer-reviewed publication (digital humanities) (2)

Public Scholarship (2)