Kitty Vega is a UKRI-funded PhD candidate at the University of Exeter. Her research examines 19th-century British women’s mourning and funerary rituals as paratheatrical performance, with a focus on British colonial India. She explores how these practices intersect with evangelical sensibilities, domestic ideologies, and imperial cultural politics. Kitty’s wider interests include Victorian studies, gender, ritual, death and mourning, and material culture, with a particular emphasis on how mourning practices shape cultural identities across global contexts.