Riya Das, PhD

Riya Das, PhD
Associate Professor, English

Contact Information

Associate Professor, English
Office: Hilliard Hall
Phone: (936) 261-xxxx
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Executive Statement

Dr. Riya Das specializes in nineteenth-century British literature. She earned her PhD in English from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Das is the author of Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature (The Ohio State UP, 2024) and the editor of the first-ever critical edition of Mona Caird's The Daughters of Danaus (Edinburgh UP, 2025). Her research has been funded by multiple institutions including the Mellon Center at Prairie View A&M, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Among other projects, Das is currently working on her next monograph, Victorian Transgressions. Her work has appeared in Victorians Institute Journal, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Victorian Review, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, and other venues. For more about her work, visit her website at https://riyadas.weebly.com

Teaching/Research Area of Interest

  • Nineteenth-century British literature
  • The British novel
  • Women's writing

Education

  • PhD in English, Department of English, State University of New York at Binghamton, New York, USA
  • MA, English (First Class), Jadavpur University, India
  • BA, English (First Class, Honors), Jadavpur University, India

Credentials, Certificates, Memberships, and Badges

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)
  • Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA)
  • Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA)
  • Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS)
  • British Women Writers Association (BWWA)
  • Victorians Institute (VI)

Selection of Courses Taught

  • Shakespeare (advanced)
  • Special Topics (advanced/capstone)
  • Literary Theory and Criticism (advanced)
  • British Literature II (intermediate)
  • Survey of World Literature (intermediate)
  • Introduction to Literature (intermediate)
  • Advanced Composition (intermediate)
  • Introduction to Humanities (introductory)

Selected Research / Creative Activities

PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS

  • Monograph: Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature, The Ohio State University Press, 2024
    Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), June 2022-May 2023 and
    Recipient of the NEH Fellowships Open Book Program Award, 2024
  • Critical Edition: Mona Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus, Edinburgh University Press, 2025
    Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, January-June 2024

PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTER

  • Invited: “Fantasies of Freedom: Emigration and Imperialism in Late-Victorian Women’s Writing,” The Cambridge History of Victorian Women’s Writing, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2026.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • “‘Death of the Essay? Generative AI, Literature Teachers’ Five Stages of Grief, and Alternative Assignment Design in Victorian Studies.” Co-authored with Cox, Draucker, Nadeau, Nesbit, and Thierauf, Victorian Network, 2025.
  • “Nurturing Professionals: De-Facto Maternal Roles in British New Woman Novels, 1880-1900.” Victorians Institute Journal (Penn State University Press), 51, 2024, pp. 85-113.
  • “Prioritizing Pedagogy in Victorian Studies.” Co-authored with Cox, Draucker, Nadeau, Nesbit, and Thierauf, Victorian Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press), 51.2, 2023, pp. 307-325.
  • “New Woman,” Victorian Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press), “Keywords Redux” Special Issue, 51.3, 2023, pp. 463- 66.
  • “Antagonistic Boundaries: The Professional New Woman’s Retro-Progress.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts (Routledge, Taylor and Francis), 45.4, 2023, pp. 365-383.
  • “Transgressing with Rediscovery: The Forgotten No More Essay.” “Teaching to Transgress” NCGS Special Issue, 17.1, 2021.
  • “An Unsympathetic Network: Female Defiance as Narrative Force in Daniel Deronda”, Texas Studies in Literature and Language (University of Texas Press), 62.1, 2020, pp. 1-23.

PEER-REVIEWED DIGITAL HUMANITIES ARTICLES and RESOURCES

  • “Recovering and Reviewing Anglophone Writers”, Methodological Essay and Assessment, Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, 2023.
  • “British Literature II: A Representative Survey” Methodological Essay and Syllabus, Beyond “Victorian” Literature cluster, Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, 2023.
  • Beyond “Victorian” Literature, Syllabus Cluster co-developed with Cox, Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, 2023.

REVIEWS

  • Invited Thematic Review of titles on Empire, the Law, and Travel Writing. SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (Johns Hopkins University Press), expected 2027
  • Invited review of The New Woman and Technologies of Speed in Fin-de-Siècle Literature (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Eva Chen. Victorian Studies (Indiana University Press), forthcoming, 2026
  • Review of The Victorian Novel on File (Oxford University Press, 2025) by Priyanka Anne Jacob, The Victorian Web, 2025.
  • Review of Gone Girls, 1684-1901 (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Nora Gilbert Victoriographies (Edinburgh University Press), 14.3, 2024, pp. 272-274.
  • Invited review of Horror in the Age of Steam (Routledge, 2021) by Carroll Clayton Savant, Victorian Studies (Indiana University Press), 65.4, 2023, pp. 658-659.

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

  • Invited article, Victorian Review (Johns Hopkins University Press), 2025.
  • Invited post, Victorian Review Website, 2025
  • Essay, Journal of Victorian Culture Online (Oxford University Press), 2022.
  • Essay, The Austin Chronicle, 2021.

Service Activities

  • Reviews Editor: Victorians Journal (The Ohio State University Press), 2025-
  • Invited Steering Committee Member: North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)-Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference, 2026-27
  • Organizer and Presider, Special Session, Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, January 2023
  • Co-Organizer and Moderator, Pedagogy Session, North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Annual Conference, Washington DC, November 2025
  • Invited Expert Reviewer: Studies in the Novel (Johns Hopkins University Press), 2024,
  • 2026 Oxford Bibliographies (Oxford University Press), 2026 Journal of Victorian Culture (Oxford University Press), 2025 Nineteenth Century Studies (Penn State University Press), 2025 ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (Oxford University Press),
  • 2023-2024 Grants and Awards Review National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Awards for Faculty Program, invited in 2025 Awards Committee for Outstanding PhD Thesis, The Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (SGNCS),
  • 2023 Graduate Mentorship: Mentor for Academic Publications, “Meet A Mentor” Event for Graduate Students Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA) Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2025
  • Mentor, Mentorship Program for Graduate Students, BWWC, Charlottesville, VA, May 2023
  • Workshop Runner, “Navigating the Post-Pandemic Academic Job Market,” State University of New York at Binghamton, virtual, September 2020
  • Mentorship Talks: “Tips for Research Grant Applications.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) Scholars in Progress Session, virtual, November 2023
  • “Re-forming Your Content for an Online Audience.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) Scholars in Progress Session, Virtual, March 2021
  • “The Academic Job Market and Tips for Online Interviews.” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Annual Conference Career Workshop, Virtual, October 2020
  • Conference Panel Chair: British Women Writers Conference (BWWC), Auburn, AL, May 2026
  • Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA) Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2025
  • North American Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference (NAVSA), Indiana University Bloomington, IN, November 2023
  • BWWC, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, May 2023
  • North American Victorian Studies Association Conference (NAVSA), Bethlehem, PA, September-October 2022
  • BWWC, Baylor University, Waco, TX, May 2022
  • North American Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference (NAVSA), Virtual, March 2022
  • Victorians Institute (VI) Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, October 2021

Grants & Awards

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