Psyfun Mustary is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She has an MA in English from UBC, prior to which she received her BA Honours and MA in English Literature from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her doctoral dissertation reads representations of colonial diseases in mid-eighteenth- to mid-nineteenth-century literary and medical writings in relation to questions of race, subjectivity, community, and aesthetic figuration. Her current research interests include literature and medicine, science and medicine in the colonies, rhetoric of health and illness, migration and diaspora narratives, global Romanticisms, and South Asian literary modernity.