Dr. Sambudha Sen is Senior Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shiv Nadar University. He is a scholar of Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture and has written extensively on the works of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.
Dr. Sen is the author of London, Radical Culture and the Making of the Dickensian Novel (2012, Ohio State University Press), which was nominated for the North American Victorian Studies Book Prize. 
He has published on various topics tied to nineteenth-century literature and culture, including the mutation of medical knowledge in the period. His essays have appeared in prominent journals, including Victorian Studies, Representations, Nineteenth Century Literature, and English Literary History.
He has researched and published on the early Indian novel, and he co-edited Novel Formations: The Indian Beginning of a European Genre (2018, Orient Black Swan).
Dr. Sen is also an accomplished fiction writer who has published short stories, and in 2021 was awarded the prestigious Hawthorn Castle fellowship to complete a novel.
His research has been supported by numerous important fellowships, including the Foundation Fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge, the Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library, the Rockefeller Residency at Bellagio, and the Institute of Advanced Studies Fellowship at Durham University.
In the excerpts below, Dr. Sen discusses Austen’s cultural importance in India, the enduring need of the humanities, and his particular interest in Mansfield Park.
You can also access Dr. Sen’s YouTube playlist directly.
Dr. Sambudha Sen Discusses Jane Austen’s Peculiar Cultural Impact and Influence in India
Dr. Sambudha Sen Reflects on How Jane Austen’s Works Have Inspired Smart, Independent Women In India
Dr. Sambudha Sen Explains the Centrality and Longevity of Jane Austen on the University Syllabus in India
Dr. Sambudha Sen on the Productive Ambiguity of Fanny Price’s Resilience in Mansfield Park
Dr. Sambudha Sen Discusses how the Imperialist Vision of the Bertrams is Tied to Larger Moralities
Dr. Sambudha Sen Reflects on the Condition and Urgent Need of the Humanities In Our Time