Teja Varma Pusapati

Key Research Areas

I work on Victorian literature and culturewith a particular focus on the developments in prowomen's writingjournalism and the periodical press

Dr. Teja Varma Pusapati

Associate Professor School of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

I work on Victorian literature and culture, with a particular focus on the developments in professional authorship, women's writing, journalism and the periodical press, newspaper and magazine culture, feminist writing, and imperial print networks. My upcoming monograph, Model Women of the Pres...

Research Overview

I work on Victorian literature and culture, with a particular focus on the developments in professional authorship, women's writing, journalism and the periodical press, newspaper and magazine culture, feminist writing, and imperial print networks. My upcoming monograph, Model Women of the Press: Gender, Politics, and Women's Professional Journalism (Routledge, New York), offers the first extended account of the mid-century rise of ‘model women of the press': women who not only stormed the male bastions of social and political journalism but also presented themselves as upholders of the highest standards of professional journalistic practice. From Victorian feminists to female mainstream political journalists, from female foreign and war correspondence to even fictional presswomen, all contributed in distinctive ways to the rise of the Victorian female journalist as a serious, high-minded, and professional author. A new project on imperial periodicals was awarded a Curran Fellowship by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) My articles on Victorian women's foreign correspondence, feminist journalism, and celebrity culture have appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, Women's Writing and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. A book chapter on the campaign for Victorian women's entry into medicine was published in Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s (Edinburgh University Press) and another chapter on mid-century feminist fiction is forthcoming in the Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism.

Education

BA (Honours) in English. Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi (2003-2006) MA in English. Delhi University (2006-2008) MPhil in English. Delhi University (2008-2010) DPhil: University of Oxford, UK (2012-2016) (DPhil fully funded by the Felix Scholarship)

Experience

01/12 - 03/12 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Gargi College, New Delhi 09/10 - 04/11 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi

# Title Authors Source Year Cited
1 Book chapter
IN THE ADVANCE GUARD OF VICTORIAN LITERARY FEMINISM: The actress as an independent woman and social reformer in Eliza Lynn Linton’s Realities: A Tale (1851)
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Pusapati, T.V. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism, 380-393 2023 0

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Research contributions aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals:

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Gender Equality
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Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Awards & Honors

  • 2017 TORCH Women in the Humanities writing fellowship, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (January - April 2017) 2017 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Huntington Library, California, United States (June, July 2017) 2015 Felix Scholarship for a D.Phil in English Literature, University of Oxford (2012-2015) Membership of Research/Professional Bodies Member of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP). Elected to its Board of Directors in 2021. Term ends 2023. Member of the British Association for Victorian Studies

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