Divya Athmanathan is an Assistant Professor in English Literature in the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Divya’s research interests primarily revolve around explorations in the fields of gender, domesticity, spatiality, urbanism, and the interplay between the visual and the literary arts in Nineteenth-Century British literature and culture.
After her Master of Studies degree in Early Modern English Literature in the University of Oxford, Divya completed her PhD in nineteenth-century English Fiction at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She has published on Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the Pre-Raphaelites. Her current research project traces and maps the British colonial visual culture of Nineteenth-Century India.
Last modified 26 September 2017