Dr Oindrila Ghosh is a scholar of Victorian Literature and Culture, with specific interest in Thomas Hardy and his Postcolonial Reception. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Diamond Harbour Women’s University, India, where she was the first Department Chair from 2018-2021. She has a number of prestigious awards and grants including the Charles Wallace India Trust, UK research grants, Frank Pinion Award (Thomas Hardy Society), Associateship of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, India and the recent Fellowship of the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Surrey. She will join the latter as Academic Fellow at the School of Languages and Literature in April-May 2023, following her terms at St Hugh’s where she will be researching for her project on Late-Victorian Transnational Animal Welfare Movement and its Literary and Cultural projections.
