iya Das is Assistant Professor of English (British and World Literature) at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She specializes in nineteenth-century British and Anglophone literature with an interest in women's writing, empire, and narrative form.
Das is the author of Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature (The Ohio State University Press, 2024), which reassesses female solidarity in the Victorian novel and demonstrates the overlooked role of strategic antagonism and indifference in fashioning female progress, and she is the editor of the first-ever critical edition of Mona Caird's fin-de-siècle novel The Daughters of Danaus (Edinburgh University Press, 2025). Both books were funded by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Das's work has appeared in Victorians Institute Journal, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Victorian Review, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Victorian Network, Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, and other venues.
Among other projects, Das is currently working on her next monograph, tentatively titled Victorian Transgressions, which was a finalist in the American Council of Learned Societies HBCU Faculty Fellowship competition in 2024. For more about her work, please visit her website.
Created 24 November 2025