Rowshan Chowdhury

Rowshan Chowdhury earned her BA and MA in English from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, and completed her second MA from North Dakota State University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate with a concentration in American Studies and a Teaching Associate in the English Department at UMass Amherst. As a nineteenth-century Americanist, she is particularly interested in the interrelationships among various empires. Her current project investigates the investment of the United States in the colonial history of British India, focusing on the place of Indianness in the U.S literary imagination in the long nineteenth century, particularly via figurations of uprisings and rebellions.

Specializations: Long Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Asian American and Transnational Literature; Black Studies; and Serialized Literature.