Dipanjan Maitra is PhD Candidate in English at State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). He was Advanced PhD Fellow (2020-2021) at Humanities Institute, UB. His dissertation, currently entitled “Built With Glue and Clippings: Modernist Collaboration and the Press-Cutting Bureau” explores the role of press-cutting agencies in furthering the careers of celebrity modernists like James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, small publishers and patrons (e.g. Sylvia Beach, Nancy Cunard) and as a surveillance tool in the hands of colonial powers like the British Empire. He has presented on modernism, genetic criticism and psychoanalysis in India, US and Europe and his academic articles have appeared in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, James Joyce Quarterly, Genetic Joyce Studies, Joyce Studies in Italy and other peer-reviewed journals. He was recently awarded a Dissertation Fellowship by the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (2020-2021) and a Research Fellowship (2021-2022) by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) for his dissertation project.