Dr. Pallabi Gupta is a dynamic scholar whose work spans British Victorian literature, children’s literature, and 20th-century South Asian studies, blending interdisciplinary lenses through feminist and folkloric approaches. Currently, she is a lecturer at the Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Research & Publications

• Research Interests:
  Victorian literature, folklore and culture, children’s literature, modern British literature, literary theory, and South Asian studies 
• Recent Articles:
  • “Communities and Anti-communities: Caroline Helstone’s Societies in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley”, Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (2023) 
  • “The Female Explorer in George MacDonald’s The Day Boy and Night Girl and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden”, North Wind (2016) 
• Working Papers & Collaborations:
  • “The Home and the Anti‑home: Houses in Charlotte Brontë’s Novels and the Nordic Selkie Tales” (under review) 
  • Co-author of upcoming work “Rethinking South Asian Studies” (in collaboration with Dr. Arun Gupto) 
• Creative Writing:
  • Memoir: “Full Moon, Facts and Faults,” in Telling a Tale – a collection of Nepali Women’s Personal Narrations (2010) 
  • Short Story: “Shoved by the Wind,” in Nepali Writers in English (2010)