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, including recent papers on Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826) and on 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. His article, "Ann Radcliffe's Environmental Novels: A Sicilian Romance (1790) and The Italian (1796)," which examines some of Ann Radcliffe's novels through an eco-feminist lens, recently appeared in the fourth volume of the peer-reviewed journal Sophia Luminous.
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 6 August 2025