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Ritam Dutta is a doctoral research scholar in the Department of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His research interests lie at the intersection of Environmental Humanities, Victorian Literature and Marginality Studies, with a particular focus on how nineteenth-century literary cultures engage questions of ecology, agency, and social exclusion.

He completed his M.A. in English from the University of Delhi. He is a UGC-NET Junior Research Fellow and has also qualified GATE (Humanities and Social Sciences – English Literature). Alongside his doctoral research, he has teaching experience in Victorian and Nineteenth-century literature and English Language Pedagogy at Jadavpur University.

Ritam’s scholarly work has appeared or is forthcoming with major international publishers including Routledge, Springer Nature, Bloomsbury, Edinburgh University Press, Wiley, Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press. His research explores themes such as Environmental Extraction, Caste and Ecology, Posthuman Agency, and the cultural politics of the Anthropocene. He has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences across India, Europe, and the United States.

He is currently co-editing three edited volumes: 

“Blue Victorian: Oceanology, Transgression and Marginality”, “Rewriting the Victorian Imagination: Fables, Flesh, and Fluidity in Nineteenth-Century Literature” (Peter Lang has shown interest), and “Vampires, Parasites, and Environmental Extraction: Gothic Figures of Resource Exploitation in the Long Nineteenth Century” (Bloomsbury has shown interest).

Beyond academic publishing, Ritam is the founder of Victorian Vanguard, an independent digital platform with a global scholarly community of over 20,000 members. The initiative is dedicated to expanding public engagement with Victorian and nineteenth-century studies through lectures, interdisciplinary dialogues, and open-access resources.