Prabal Gupta
Nineteenth & Twentieth-Century British, Victorian Art and Culture, Theory, Empire and Postcolonial Studies, South Asian and Diaspora Studies, Migration and Partition Literature, War Literature, Film and Media Studies
Office: C707 Wells Hall
Email: guptap14@msu.edu
Prabal Gupta (he/him) is a doctoral student in the Department of English at Michigan State University. He holds a second master’s degree in English from Georgia Southern University, in addition to both a master’s and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Chittagong.
His research interests include 19th-century British literature and Victorian culture, with a particular focus on the 1857 Uprising and its representations in literature, art, and cinematic adaptations. He also examines insurgency within the Empire, with an emphasis on South Asia. In addition to exploring the works of British writers, his project aims to investigate acts of violence and expressions of rebellion against the Raj, as depicted in the writings of contemporary South Asian authors in both English and Bengali. He seeks to develop a literary scholarship that promotes a trend of “nonhistorical historiography,” which facilitates the narrativization of the past from the perspective of “minority histories” in the Subcontinent, independent of a Eurocentric theoretical framework.
As a native Bengali speaker educated in English, he plans to conduct research across multiple languages. By recovering South Asian narrative influences in modern literature, he aims to demonstrate that South Asian literature stands independently, rather than merely reacting to the British Empire.
Prabal currently serves as the editorial assistant for the CR: The New Centennial Review, published by the MSU Press. He can be reached at guptap14@msu.edu.