Rowshan Chowdhury (she/her) is currently a Ph.D. candidate with a concentration in American Studies and a Teaching Associate in the English Department at UMass Amherst. As a nineteenth-century Americanist, she is concerned with the ways racial and gendered violence intersect and the ways those subject to this violence are excluded from the ostensibly universal regime of liberty and equality. She is particularly interested in the interrelationships among various empires and reading literature through a transnational lens. Her dissertation project, titled “The ‘Savage’ in Encounter, Passage to Mutiny, and Trans-Indianness in Transnational American Literature” investigates the investment of the United States in the colonial history of British India, focusing on the place of Indianness in the U.S literary imagination in the long nineteenth century, particularly via figurations of uprisings and rebellions.