• PhD – English Literature

Topic: ‘Interminable Living: Reflections on the Dynamics of Arrested Immortality’

Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship

• MA English Literature, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
• BA English (Honours), St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata

Book Chapter:

Kundu, Devaleena and Bethan Michael-Fox. “Representations of Immortality and Institutions in 21st Century Popular Culture” (2025). Death and Institutions: Processes, Places and the Past, edited by Kate Woodthorpe, Helen Frisby and Bethan Michael-Fox, UK: Bristol University Press.

Journal Article:

Kundu, Devaleena. “Negotiating Transgression, Deathlessness, and Senescence in Mary Shelley’s ‘The Mortal Immortal’” (2023). Victoriographies 13.2. Edinburgh University Press.

https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/vic.2023.0491

Selected Achievements:

Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellow (2016-2017)

Host University: University of California, Berkeley

Selected Conferences:

• Seminar Organiser, ‘Death, Dying, and Decolonisation: Legacies and Politics of Commemoration’, 2026 Annual Meeting, American Comparative Literature Association.
• Session Chair, ‘Ethnography and the Gothic’, The Gothic in Asia Association (GAA), October 2022.