Roshan Perry

Roshan is a Ph.D. student jointly situated in the English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies departments. His academic interests lay at the intersections of trans and postcolonial theory, performance studies, and the “global” Victorian period, attending to the conjunction of Victorian literature and law as they construct gender and empire across continents in an ongoing genealogy of racialized transness. Integral to Roshan’s examination of transness is its performance, both artistic and theoretical. Continuing from their B.A. thesis at Bryn Mawr College, Roshan intends to ask how different kinds of gendered movement interact with 19th-century imperial social “reform” and how its literary forms perform different expressions of (trans) gender.