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ipyaman Bhowmick is a first-year MA student in English at Jadavpur University, India. His research interests include environmental humanities, Gothic studies, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature.

He has presented papers in national and international seminars and conferences. Some of his recent presentations include readings of Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826) and the Hindi-language Bollywood film Bulbbul (2020) through an eco-gothic lens. Dipyaman's article "Reading Toru Dutt as a ‘Romantic' Urban Nature Poet," on the nineteenth-century Bengali poet Toru Dutt, was published in the online forum of the Journal of Victorian Culture.

He is currently working on an article examining some of Ann Radcliffe's novels through an eco-feminist lens, scheduled for publication in the fourth volume of the peer-reviewed journal Sophia Luminous in 2026. He also takes a lively interest in writing fiction, and his flash fiction "Midnight's Soliloquy" can be found in The Criterion: An International Journal in English. Dipyaman runs a Nineteenth-Century Reading Circle (NCRC) with some of his colleagues in the Department of English at Jadavpur University, where they host talks from speakers from around the world.


Created 30 December 2025