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• Abin Chakraborty

Abin Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor in English in Chandernagore College. He is the editor of the international online journal, Postcolonial Interventions ( https://postcolonialinterventions.com ) and also the author of the monograph, Popular Culture (Orient Blackswan 2019). His articles have been published in national and international journals and anthologies.

• Ananda Lal

Ananda Lal, former Professor of English, Jadavpur University, directs Writers Workshop (India’s oldest extant publisher dedicated to creative writing in English) and kolkatatheatre.com, which maintains an archive of his theatre essays and reviews. His most important books include Rabindranath Tagore: Three Plays and the Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre. He also contributed to A History of Indian Poetry in English.

• Anandi Rao

Anandi Rao is Lecturer in South Asian Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her work has been published in venues like South Asian Review, Shakespeare Bulletin and Studies in South Asian Film and Media. 

• Arundhathi Subramaniam

Arundhathi Subramaniam is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2020 for the poetry collection When God is a Traveller . Besides being well known for prose on Indian spirituality, she is also an arts critic, anthologist, performing arts curator and poetry editor. More information about her can be found in https://arundhathisubramaniamin.wordpress.com/

• Avishek Parui

Avishek Parui (PhD, Durham) is Assistant Professor in English at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He is the author of Postmodern Literatures (Orient Blackswan 2018) and Culture and the Literary: Matter, Metaphor, Memory (Rowman & Littlefield 2022) and the founding chairperson of the Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS).

• Bhaskar Lama

Bhaskar Lama teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad. His areas of interest are African American Literature, Jewish American Literature, Queer Writings in India and questions of Identity and Subjectivity. He has some publications in these areas.

• Christel R. Devadawson

A Cambridge-Nehru scholar, Christel R Devadawson is Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi. She has written Out of Line: Cartoons, Caricature and Contemporary India (2014), Reading India, Writing England: The fiction of Rudyard Kipling and E M Forster (2005), and co-edited Word Image Text (2009, rpt 2017).

• Emma Dawson Varughese

E. Dawson Varughese is a Snr Fellow at Manipal Centre for Humanities (MAHE) where she works part of the year. Her research examines the encoding of post-millennial ideas of Indianness in Indian literary and visual cultures. She has published extensively on Indian graphic narratives, post-millennial Indian genre fiction including speculative fiction, and on public wall art in Mumbai. 

• Graziano Krätli

Graziano Krätli’s contributions to Indian writing in English include three edited books on Srinivas Rayaprol: Why Should I Write a Poem Now: The Letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, 1949-1958 (2018), Angular Desire: Selected Poems and Prose (2020), and Random Harvest: Selected Poems and Prose (2022).

• Guillermo Rodríguez Martín 

Guillermo Rodríguez (Ph.D., University of Valladolid and University of Kerala) is the founding director of Casa de la India, a pioneering Indian cultural centre in Spain. He is the author of When Mirrors are Windows: A View of A.K. Ramanujan`s Poetics (2016), and co-editor, with Krishna Ramanujan, of Journeys. A Poet’s Diary. A.K. Ramanujan (2019) and Soma. Poems by A.K. Ramanujan (2023).

• Jobeth Ann Warjri

Jobeth Ann Warjri is a writer and researcher from Laitkor, Meghalaya with an interest in
gender studies, African American Literature and Culture and Writing in English from
Northeast India. She received her doctoral degree from the Department of English, University
of Hyderabad. She currently teaches writing at Vidyashilp University, Bengaluru.

• Kanak Yadav

Kanak Yadav is an Assistant Professor (English) at the School of Liberal Arts, IIT Jodhpur. She pursued a PhD in English from Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has also worked as an Assistant Professor (English) in colleges affiliated with the University of Delhi. Her articles and reviews have appeared in The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Akademos, The New Leam and World Literature Today. Her research interests include Literature and Cities, Dalit Narratives, Indian English Novel, Postcolonial Anglophone Fiction and Environmental Humanities.

• K. Narayana Chandran

K. Narayana Chandran currently holds the Institution of Eminence Research Chair in Literary and Cultural Theory at the University of Hyderabad. An occasional translator and writer in Malayalam, he has taught and published a wide variety of courses/ papers in Anglo-American literatures, critical and reading theories, comparative and translation studies, and English in India― its history and pedagogy.

• K. Satyanarayana

K. Satyanarayana is a professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, India. He has co-edited two volumes of new Dalit writing: No Alphabet in Sight (2011) and  Steel Nibs Are Sprouting (2013). He is also a co-editor of Dalit Studies (2016), Dalit Text (2020) and most recently, Concealing Caste: Passing and Personhood in Dalit Literature (forthcoming) . His research interests are in the fields of Dalit studies, literary history, and cultural theory. 

• Meenakshi Srihari

Meenakshi Srihari teaches at NIT Andhra Pradesh. She is an editorial assistant at IWE Online and a Project Assistant with the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies. Her work has appeared in Medical Humanities, Media Watch and Synapsis. 

• Nalini Iyer

Nalini Iyer is Professor of English at Seattle University. She teaches courses in postcolonial South Asian and African writing, diaspora studies, and transnational feminisms. Her books include the following: Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India (2009); Roots and Reflections: South Asians in the Pacific Northwest (2013); and Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays in Memory, Culture, and Politics (2016). She is co-editor of the forthcoming Teaching Anglophone South Asian Diasporic Literature (MLA). She has also published articles in ARIEL , South Asian Review, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. She is the Chief Editor of South Asian Review. 

• Nandini Nayar

Nandini Nayar is the author of over 60 books for children of all ages. Her picture book What Shall I Make? was named an outstanding book by the USSBBY and her chapter book, Mini’s Questions, was on the Parag Honour List 2021. For more information, please visit her website www.nandininayar.in.

• Neeraja Sundaram

Neeraja Sundaram teaches Literature at the School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University. Her research lies at the intersection of Literature and the Health Humanities and as such, is interested in new kinds of voices and identities that emerge when we pay attention to healthcare as a site of storytelling.

• Pia Mukherji

Pia Mukherji has coedited Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities (Routledge, 2015), and published “Graphic History: Postcolonial Texts and Contexts” in The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing, 2017. Her research, teaching and publications are in the areas of British modernism, film studies, and new-media texts. She has a PhD in English Literature from the City University of New York.

• Pramila Venkateswaran

Pramila Venkateswaran, poet laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island (2013-15) and co-director of Matwaala: South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival, is the author of many poetry volumes, the most recent being The Singer of Alleppey and We are Not a Museum. An award winning poet, she teaches English and Women’s Studies at SUNY, Nassau.

• Saradindu Bhattacharya

Saradindu Bhattacharya teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad. His areas of interest are popular culture and media, young adult literature, narratives of trauma and the pedagogy of English in India. He has published in journals like Pedagogy, The Explicator, Radical Teacher, Fafnir and Journal of Creative Communications.

• Sathyaraj Venkatesan

Sathyaraj Venkatesan is Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, where he specializes in health humanities and comics studies, with an emphasis on graphic medicine. He is the author of nine books and over hundred research articles. His articles have appeared in Web of Science/Scopus journals such as British Medical Journal’s Medical Humanities, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Journal of Medical Humanities, American Medical Association Journal of Ethics (AMA), Health, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, World Literature Today (WLT) among others. He is most recently editor/contributor of Pandemics and Epidemics in Cultural Representation (Singapore: Springer, 2022).

• Shalini Deepa Srinivasan

Shalini Srinivasan teaches English at Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Her areas of interest include comics, nonsense verse, and speculative fiction. Shalini also writes comics and fiction for children and adults. Her books include Vanamala and the Cephalopod (2014), Gangamma’s Gharial (2016), Shoecat Thoocat (2018) and the Manasa picture books (2020-21).

• Somdatta Bhattacharya

Somdatta Bhattacharya has a PhD in English Studies from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur. Her research interests are rooted in areas of urban cultures, social theories of space and spatiality, crime fiction, city in literature, Indian writing in English, and South Asian popular culture. She works on multiple funded projects on the Indian urban underclass.

• Subarna Mondal

Subarna Mondal is Assistant Professor of English at The Sanskrit College and University, Kolkata. She holds a PhD from Jadavpur University, Department of Film Studies. Her areas of interest include late-Victorian Gothic literature, the Gothic on screen, and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Her articles have been published in Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook, and MDPI Humanities.

• Sudha Shastri

Sudha Shastri is Professor of English in the Department of HSS, IIT Bombay. Her teaching-research interests include Intertextuality, Narratology, Indian literature, Shakespeare, Film. She has presented and published papers at the national and international levels; and is a two-time recipient of IITB’s Excellence in Teaching award. She is also a trained Odissi dancer.

• Susie Tharu

Susie Tharu has taught at IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur and at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Her teaching and research interests are in cultural history, feminism and minority/subalternity in India.  She has published the well-known two-volume anthology, Women Writing in India (co-edited with K. Lalita);  Towards a Critical Medical Practice: Dilemmas of Medical Culture Today (co-edited with Anand Zacaraiah and R Srivatsan); No Alphabet in Sight (co-edited with K. Satyanarayana); From Those Stubs Steel Nibs are Sprouting (co-edited with K. Satyanarayana) and A World of Equals: A Textbook on Gender (co-edited with Uma Bhrugubanda and A Suneetha).

• Ulka Anjaria

Ulka Anjaria is professor of English and director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University, USA. She is the author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form (2012), Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture (2019), and Understanding Bollywood: The Grammar of Hindi Cinema (2021), editor of A History of the Indian Novel in English (2015) and co-editor (with Anjali Nerlekar) of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures.

• Vaibhav Iype Parel

Vaibhav Iype Parel is interested in South Asian Crime Fiction and Indian Writing in English. His academic work has appeared in journals like ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Libri & Liberi, and Journal of Postcolonial Writing among others.

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• Arun Jayaprakash : IWE Online Logo
• Guru G : Illustrations for “English in India” and “Indian Children’s Literature in English”
• Laboni Mukherjee: ‘Godhuli Time’, ‘Lost Love: In Retrospect’ and ‘Small Towns and the River’
• Rik Bhattacharjee : Portraits for the Critical Biographies
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