Dr Tara Puri
BA(Delhi), MA(Delhi), PhD(Kent)
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in English
Department of English
Contact
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Research interests
Victorian literature; periodicals and print culture; women's writing and history; representations of empire; late 19th and early 20th century Indian literature; art and politics.
I joined the Department of English at the University of Bristol in January 2016, after three and a half years as a Global Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick. I studied for my BA and my MA at the University of Delhi, and received my PhD from the University of Kent.
I am currently preparing a monograph, provisionally titled 'Legible Bodies: Dress, Desire and the Female Self in Victorian Litearture and Culture', which looks at the construction of selfhood in nineteenth century literature and culture. I also have an ongoing interest in Victorian women's periodicals, as well as women's print culture in India at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Teaching
I have taught at all levels of our programmes, from the foundation year to the supervision of PhD students. In recent years, I have taught on the following undergraduate units: 'Literature 1740-1900' (Y2), 'Sex and Gender at the Fin de siecle' (Y2), 'Women's Writing' (Y1), and 'Victorian Materialities' (Y3).
Research Supervision
I welcome enquiries from students interested in pursuing doctoral research on nineteenth-century literature, literature of the empire, and Anglophone literatures and cultures.
Contact
Office: G.01, 36 Tyndall's Park Road (Come in through the 3 WR entrance and go left)
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Letterpress Printing Made Easy
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Engagement project with local schools, using printing and play to enhance literacy and book-confidenceManaging organisational unit
Department of EnglishDates
19/02/2025 to 19/03/2025
Does Motherhood Need Mitigating? A Collective Examination of Parenting and Academic Practice
Principal Investigator
Role
Collaborator
Managing organisational unit
Department of History (Historical Studies)Dates
01/01/2023 to 31/07/2023
Picturing the New Indian Woman: Photographic Archives of the Alkazi Foundation and Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of EnglishDates
01/08/2022 to 31/07/2023
Thesis supervisions
Hysterical Bodies and Narratives
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
06/06/2023Kamala Satthianadhan and the Indian Ladies’ Magazine
Victorian Periodicals Review
For the Record
Cracow Indological Studies
Indian Objects, English Body
Journal of Victorian Culture
From the Nabob to the Babu
Journal of Victorian Culture
Questioning free print, or what would post-revolutionary print look like?
Journal of Victorian Culture