Oindrila Ghosh (PhD) is Professor, Department of English, Diamond Harbour Women’s University, India. She has a PhD on Thomas Hardy with publications on the unpublished global correspondences, postcolonial adaptations, reappraisals of Hardy’s work in noted international Hardy Studies journals, she also received the Frank Pinion Award from the Thomas Hardy Society, UK in 2014.  She was the Belcher Visiting Fellow in Victorian Studies, at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford (2022-23), an Academic Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey (2023), a Charles Wallace India Trust, UK, Short Research Grant Awardee three times (2009, 2019 and 2025) and invited as Visiting Resident at the Humanities Institute, University College Dublin in April 2026 (unavailed). Her current research interests centre on transnational animal welfare and rise of vegetarianism in the late Victorian period. She is a member of the editorial board of Victoriographies journal and Guest Editor of the Special Issue on ‘Victorian Animals’ to be published in November 2026. In 2027 she will be a Visiting Professor Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, UK.