Received Sylff fellowship in 2024
Academic Supervisor: Dr. Abhijit Gupta
Current affiliation: Jadavpur University
Debalina Mondal is a Master's student in the Department of English at Jadavpur University. Her research interests include crime fiction, gothic fiction, pulp magazines, gender studies, and adaptation studies. In her MA SYLFF dissertation, Debalina aims to chronicle the personal histories of Parsi women in India, while engaging with historical crime fiction narratives emerging from twenty-first century India.The primary goal of her project is to retrace the social, political and economic condition of Parsi women from 1920s to 1960s, using the lives of the fictional characters as an entry point.
Beyond her academic pursuits, Debalina harbours a profound interest in book designing and publishing. In her free time, she can also be found trekking through forests and mountains or exploring off-beat travel destinations.
