Research output per year
Research output per year
My doctoral project looks at the literary representations of British and Indian women’s dressed bodies in nineteenth-century travelogues, fiction, and periodicals written by women. In making a case for reading colonial historiography and literary narratives through the lens of embodiment and clothing, I explore women’s cross-racial relationships through their cultural dress and racialised bodies, assessing how clothing defined and shaped women’s interactions over the decades. In engaging in an extensive yet nuanced comprehension of women’s cross-cultural relationships, my project discusses a range of topics from colonial India that become integral when studying dress and gender in the colony – women’s encounters in the zenana, the Rebellion, the ‘nautch’ girls of Victorian India, and the end-of-the-century purdah parties. Focusing on dress allows us to attend to the cultural and aesthetic implications of the dressed female body – which is racialised, classed, and often sexualised – in nineteenth and early twentieth century India.
I have a growing interest in British and Indian women's feminist periodicals, both Anglophone and vernacular, from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, in how they shaped women's feminist and literary histories, and assisted the building of transnational cross-racial networks. I was the recipient of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals' 'Expanding the Field' Essay Prize in 2023. I have also previously written on and am interested in women's colonial clothing culture and the concurrent evolution of the New Woman across Britain and India.
I have taught various topics at university-level, both within and outside my area of expertise such as Victorian literature, eighteenth century and Romantic literature, modernist fiction, and literary criticism.
MA English Literature, University of Warwick
Award Date: 30 Sept 2019
BA English, University of Mumbai
Award Date: 1 Jul 2017
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Bhamburkar, T. (Principal Investigator)
24/06/24 → 25/10/24
Project: Research
Bhamburkar, T. (Recipient), Sept 2021
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Bhamburkar, T. (Recipient), Aug 2021
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Bhamburkar, T. (Recipient), Mar 2022
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Bhamburkar, T. (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk
Bhamburkar, T. (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Bhamburkar, T. (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference