Om Prakash Dwivedi is Associate Professor of English Literature at Bennett University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenia.
His recent publications include, Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability (Routledge 2024), Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature (Palgrave 2023), and a special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing (with Andreas Wansbrough) on “Living in Dystopia: Fractured Identities and COVID-19” (2022). He is a member of the Publication Advisory Board of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). He can be reached at om_dwivedi2003@yahoo.com
Saradindu Bhattacharya is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad. His areas of interest are narratives of trauma, English poetry, the pedagogy of English in India, popular culture and media. He has published in journals like Radical Teacher, The Explicator, Pedagogy, and English. He has also been involved in the development of online educational resources (OERs) on platforms like Indian Writing in English Online, UGC’s e-PGpathshala and NPTEL.
Asijit Datta is currently working as an Assistant Professor at SRM University-AP and heading the Department of Media Studies. He is an integral part of the Editorial Board for Studies in the Fantastic, a journal published by the University of Tampa Press. In July 2021, he was appointed Assistant Editor for the Journal of Posthumanism by Transnational Press, London. In addition to his academic pursuits, Asijit has created an independent academic channel (https://www.youtube.com/
Meenakshi Srihari is Assistant Professor, Literature at the School of Arts and Sciences at Sai University, Chennai. Her research focuses on the Medical/Health Humanities, Graphic Medicine and Transmedia Storyworlds and she is particularly interested in auto/biographical representations of illness. She has recently published in Life Writing and BMJ’s Medical Humanities. Her writing has also appeared in Columbia University’s Synapsis and the University of Hyderabad’s OER, Indian Writing in English Online.
Recent Articles: Srihari, Meenakshi. “These are War Stories: Therapeutic Citizenships and Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York.” Life Writing, 2024, pp. 1–15. (Link)
Srihari, Meenakshi. “The Medical/Health Humanities and IWE: A Survey Essay.” Indian Writing In English Online, 2023.
Srihari, Meenakshi. “Xenotransplantation and borders: two Indian narratives.” Medical Humanities, 48, 2022, pp. 153-158. (Link)
Neeraja Sundaram is Associate Professor of English 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.
She has published essays on representing medical and socio-cultural scrutiny of women’s bodies in graphic narratives of illness, public health documentaries of the Films Division, India, the representation of bio-disasters in Hollywood, the articulation of human rights in narrative accounts by caregivers, the novel of professional development with a focus on doctors in journals like Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Postcolonial Text, Journal of Creative Communications and The Indian Journal of Gender Studies. She is also interested in developing sites of engagement for students and teachers in India in English Literature and in emerging fields like the Health Humanities which have a stronger presence in American and European contexts. Her recent book, English Romantic Literature (2023), part of Orient BlackSwan’s Literary Contexts series, aims to provide accessible introductions to teaching and learning key periods in English writing.
Sapna Mishra is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Easwari School of Liberal Arts, SRM University, Andhra Pradesh, India. She has PhD in Public Health from Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala.
Recent publications: Mishra, S. and Balasubramanian, P., ICPD+30: India’s Country Monitoring Report: Review of National Policies and Programmes And A Synthesis of Literature on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 2024. (Link)
Mishra, S., Ravindran, T.K.S. Setting the Context: An Overview of Selected South Asian Countries. In: Ravindran, T.S., Sivakami, M., Bhushan, A., Rashid, S.F., Khan, K.S. (eds) Handbook on Sex, Gender and Health. Springer, Singapore. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9265-0_2-1