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Aratrika Bose (she/her pronouns) is a Ph.D. scholar in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST University, India with her area of specialization being gender studies. Her current research is on the intersectionality of homosexuality and heteronormativity in modern India. She has published reviews and articles on Indian queer texts and visual media in journals such as Monthly Review and QED, as well as conference proceedings presented at international conferences that critically examine hegemonic femininity in female sexualities in India. Her other interests are feminist literature, queer literature, sexuality, and visual media studies.
Turni Chakrabarti is Assistant Professor of English at Jindal School of Languages and Literature at O. P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat, India. She received her Ph.D. in English from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., in May 2022. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals like Verge: Studies in Global Asias, South Asian Review, and Portals: A Journal of Comparative Literature, among others.
Anurima Chanda is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Birsa Munda College, University of North Bengal, India. Previously, she has worked with the Centre for Writing and Communication, Ashoka University, where, among other things, she extensively worked with English as a second language (ESL) students and students with learning disabilities, trying to devise teaching modules according to individual needs. She completed her Ph.D. on Indian English children’s literature from JNU. She was a predoctoral fellow at the University of Würzburg under the DAAD Programme “A New Passage to India,” working under Isabel Karremann. She is also a literary translator and children’s author (published with Scholastic and DK). Her latest work includes How I Became a Writer: An Autobiography of a Dalit (translation of the second volume of Manoranjan Byapari’s Itibrittye Chandal Jibon from Bengali to English).
Srirupa Chatterjee is Associate Professor of English, Gender Studies, and Body Studies in the Department of Liberal Arts at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India. She has published research papers in journals such as Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, South Asian Popular Culture, Papers on Language and Literature, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, English Studies, Women: A Cultural Review, Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, South Central Review, Notes on Contemporary Literature, and The Explicator. Her other works include an edited volume titled Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India from Lexington Books and forthcoming monographs entitled Body Image in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature from Routledge and Body Image: An Introduction from Orient Blackswan.
Ketaki Chowkhani is Assistant Professor at Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, where she teaches India’s first-ever course on singles studies. She is coeditor of Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies (Routledge 2023) and author of The Limits of Sexuality Education: Love, Sex, and Adolescent Masculinities in Urban India (Routledge 2023). Her other writing on gender, sexuality, and singlehood has appeared in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, the Journal of Porn Studies, the New York Times, Square Peg, and The Hindu, as well as in edited volumes published by Routledge and Cambridge University Press. Ketaki has a Ph.D. in women’s studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
Kavita Daiya is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the former director (2018–2021) of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her areas of expertise span South Asian and South Asian American cultural studies, transnational feminism, migration, and race and ethnic studies. She is the author of several articles and two books: Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India (Temple University Press, [2008] 2011; Yoda Press, 2013) and Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora (Temple University Press, 2020; Yoda Press, 2021). Her interest in transmedia and public culture appears in her edited volume, Graphic Narratives about South Asian and South Asian America: Aesthetics and Politics (Routledge, 2019). She served on the Founding Board of Directors of a digital humanities initiative, the 1947PartitionArchive.org (2015–2021).
Shweta Rao Garg is an artist, writer, and academic based in Baltimore. She is a former Associate Professor of English at DA-IICT in Gandhinagar, India. She is the recipient of Fulbright doctoral fellowship and has published in the area of Indian women’s writings, Bollywood, and food and cultural studies. Her book of poems, Of Goddesses and Women, was published by Sahitya Akademi, the Indian National Academy of Letters, in 2021. She has written a graphic novel on sensitizing Indian undergraduate students to diversity, The Tales from Campus: A Misguide to College. She has coedited The English Paradigm in India: Essay in Language, Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2017) and Quicksand Borders: South Asia in Verse (Macmillan, forthcoming). Some of her works can be found at https://shwetaraogarg.com.
Nishat Haider is Professor of English at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. She is the author of Tyranny of Silences: Contemporary Indian Women’s Poetry (2010). She has served as Director of the Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Lucknow. She is the recipient of many academic awards, including the Meenakshi Mukherjee Prize (2016), the C. D. Narasimhaiah Award (2010), and the Isaac Sequeira Memorial Award (2011). Her academic essays have been included in a variety of scholarly journals and books, such as South Asian Review, Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature (Routledge, 2016), and Premchand in World Languages: Translation, Reception and Cinematic Representations (Routledge, 2016). She has worked on various projects funded by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, UNICEF, (University Grants Commission) UGC, and other agencies. She has lectured extensively on subjects at the intersection of cinema, culture, and gender studies. Her current research interests include postcolonial studies, translation, popular culture, and gender studies.
Shubhra Ray is Associate Professor of English in Zakir Husain Delhi College (Evening) of the University of Delhi and has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has published articles in edited books and international journals brought out by Duke University Press, Zubaan, and Routledge, among others, in her areas of interest, which are book history, gender studies, and autobiographical studies. She has been the recipient of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Fellowship (2018–2020) and the Charles Wallace India Trust Research Grant (2016–2017). She also translates from Bengali and won the Katha Award for Translation in 2005.
Sucharita Sarkar is Associate Professor of English, DTSS College of Commerce, Mumbai, and invited member of the Faculty of Humanities, Dr. Homi Bhabha State University, Mumbai. Her doctoral thesis investigated mothering narratives in contemporary India. Her current research focuses on intersections of maternity with body, religion, cultures, self-writing, and media, usually from South Asian perspectives and with a matricentric feminist focus. She participated in an international collaborative project, New Directions for International Scholarship on Motherhood in Religious Studies, which can be accessed at https://beyondmg.study/. Her recent publications include articles in Current Sociology (2021), Qualitative Inquiry (2020), and Open Theology (2020), as well as chapters in edited anthologies such as The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature (2022), Representing Abortion (Routledge, 2021), Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), and Thickening Fat (Routledge, 2020), among others. Her research is documented at https://mu.academia.edu/SucharitaSarkar.
Shailendra Kumar Singh is Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India. He has published several articles in internationally acclaimed journals such as Fat Studies, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Women’s Reproductive Health, and Girlhood Studies. He is the youngest winner of the Meenakshi Mukherjee Prize for the Best Published Academic Paper in a Calendar Year (2016–2017), sponsored by the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.
Samrita Sinha is an alumnus of St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, and the University of Calcutta, India. Samrita is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Sophia College for Women (Autonomous), Mumbai. Her doctoral research is in the domain of Northeast Indian Anglophone literatures. Her article “Narrative Strategies of Decolonisation: Autoethnography in Mamang Dai’s The Legends of Pensam” was published by Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, which is indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, ERIH PLUS, and EBSCO. She has contributed to several journals and has written book chapters. She is currently coediting a book on Female Protest Narratives from South Asia that is to be published by Routledge in 2023. She has also been selected for the Charles Wallace Research Grant for the academic year 2022–2023 to pursue research at libraries in School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
Swatie holds a doctoral degree from the University of Delhi. She is the author of The New Normal: Trauma, Biopolitics and Visuality after 9/11 (Bloomsbury, 2021). Her research interests include violence studies, gender and feminism, visual culture, and, most recently, the intersection of law and literature. She has presented her research at institutes and at conferences hosted by Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, Jamia Millia Islamia and the University of Heidelberg, the University of California Irvine, and the National Law University, Delhi, among others. She is Assistant Professor at Lady Shri Ram College for Women in the Department of English, University of Delhi, India.
Annika Taneja holds an M.Litt. from the University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom, in modern and contemporary literature and culture, with a minor in postcolonial theory. Her research interests include Indian feminisms, gender theory (gender and the body, gender and labor, etc.), Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasi literature and cultures, Indian speculative fiction, utopian studies, critical urban theory, ecocriticism, and partition literature. Taneja has worked as Creative Copywriter with Wieden + Kennedy in the Delhi and Amsterdam. Currently she is a freelance copywriter, editor, and translator.
Tanupriya is an Assistant Professor with the Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR campus. She is an awarded gold medalist for her MPhil English in 2017. She was awarded a JASSO (Japan Student Services Organization) fellowship for attending a conference at Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan. She has published her works in peer-reviewed Scopus-indexed journals. Her book chapters are published with Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, and Routledge. She is an editorial board member for the Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages. Her research interests are Queer visual culture, Female and Queer Body Image, Trans sexualities and writing the self, and varied aspects related to frameworks of gender and sexuality.
Sukshma Vedere is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at George Washington University. She is interested in postcolonial and disability studies. Her dissertation focuses on the representation of disability in Indian fiction and film. Her work has been published in the South Asian Review and the College Language Association Journal, among others.