Prabal Gupta

Prabal Gupta (he/him) is a doctoral student in the Department of English at Michigan State University. He earned his Master’s degree in English from Georgia Southern University. He is interested in exploring literary, visual, and archival works of Victorian writers, artists, and historians on the events of mutinies and massacres during colonial rule in the Subcontinent. He also intends to explore the acts of violence and voices of rebellion against the Raj, aspiring for independence, represented in works of contemporary South Asian writers writing in English and Bengali. He wants to develop a literary scholarship that recommends building a trend of creating a “nonhistorical historiography,” telling the Subcontinent’s past without the help of a Eurocentric theoretical framework. As a native speaker of Bengali educated in English, he intends to do multilingual research across languages. By recovering South Asian narrative influences in modern-day literature, he wants to account for how South Asian literature exists individually rather than in reaction to the Empire.