Gayathri Prabhu
Dr. Gayathri Prabhu is Associate Professor at the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities. She holds a doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. She is the author of three novels, Maya (Indialog, 2003), Birdswim Fishfly (Rupa, 2006), The Untitled (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins, 2016), and a memoir, If I Had To Tell It Again (HarperCollins, 2017). She currently holds the Dr. TMA Pai Endowment Chair in Indian Literature. Her research interests include global modernism, medical humanities, and women’s writing in late nineteenth and early twentieth century India.
Anannya Dasgupta
Anannya Dasgupta is an Associate Professor and Director of the newly formed Centre for Writing Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University where she is putting her attention to developing academic writing pedagogies for students and faculty. Turning attention to the teaching of reading and writing as central to social sciences pedagogy of critical thinking, she is hoping to make the teaching of academic writing impactful in its inclusion in India higher education. Prior to this she studied, trained to teach, and taught, literatures of the British renaissance where she cultivated her love for careful reading and writing. She is also a poet, a short story writer, and an art photographer and she finds her interest in composition cuts across different genres and forms of visual and verbal imagination and intellection. Among other things, Anannya is the author of Between Sure Places (2015), Magical Epistemologies: Forms of knowledge in Early Modern English Drama (forthcoming 2018) and has co-edited a critical anthology, This Unsettled Place: Readings in American Poetry and Short Stories (2014).
Paromita Vohra
Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer whose work focuses on gender, feminism, urban life, love, desire and popular culture and spans many forms including documentary, fiction, print, video and sound installation. Her films include the path-breaking Unlimited Girls and Q2P as well as Partners in Crime, Morality TV and The Loving Jehad, Where’ Sandra, Cosmopolis: Two Tales of A City, Annapurna, Work in Progress and A Woman’s Place. She recently directed the cutting-edge prime time TV series Connected Hum Tum. She has written the internationally released Pakistani film Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters), several documentaries including Skin Deep, If You Pause: In a Museum of Craft and Stuntmen of Bollywood and the comic Priya’s Mirror. Her writing includes long-form nonfiction, essays, columns and short fiction and has been published in the anthologies Bombay Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai, The Tranquebar Book of Indian Erotica, The Penguin Book of Schooldays, Defending Our Dreams, Mumbai Noir, Cinema City, Tilt | Pause | Shift: Dance Ecologies in India and First Proof and journals, including Signs, South Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Bioscope, Tehelka, Elle, Outlook, Vogue, India Today, Indian Express, The Times of India, Mint Lounge, India Quarterly, The Ladies Finger, Paper Cuts and Yahoo Originals. She is the founder and creative director of Agents of Ishq, a website about sex and desire for Indians and writes the weekly columns "Paronormal Activity" in Sunday Mid-day and "How To Find Indian Love" in the Mumbai Mirror.
Bittu
Bittu is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Biology at Ashoka University. He got his PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University. He was a DST Dr. Kothari postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, and then a DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellow at the Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Hyderabad. He is interested in the ways in which collective social scientific thinking is limited by the structures that tend to either overconstrain or underconstrain types of scientific writing, from the original research article to the review, to what is called popular science writing in the form of books and non-scientific articles.
D. Venkat Rao
D. Venkat Rao teaches at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He studied at Kakatiya University, Warangal, and at University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He did Postdoctoral research at University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Washington, Seattle. In addition to books in English and Telugu he has published several articles in national and international journals. His recent work is Critical Humanities from India: Contexts, Issues, Futures (Routledge, 2018), and his other publications include Cultures of Memory in South Asia (Springer, 2014), In Citations: Readings in Area Studies of Culture (1999), a translation of Ashis Nandy’s The Intimate Enemy into Telugu (2005). Earlier he translated into English a Telugu intellectual autobiography called The Last Brahmin (2007, 2012, 2017). His areas of interest include literary and cultural studies, image studies, comparative thought, translation, and mnemocultures. He has designed several courses interfacing areas of culture, technology and literary and cultural studies.
Dr. Gayathri Prabhu is Associate Professor at the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities. She holds a doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. She is the author of three novels, Maya (Indialog, 2003), Birdswim Fishfly (Rupa, 2006), The Untitled (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins, 2016), and a memoir, If I Had To Tell It Again (HarperCollins, 2017). She currently holds the Dr. TMA Pai Endowment Chair in Indian Literature. Her research interests include global modernism, medical humanities, and women’s writing in late nineteenth and early twentieth century India.
Anannya Dasgupta
Anannya Dasgupta is an Associate Professor and Director of the newly formed Centre for Writing Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University where she is putting her attention to developing academic writing pedagogies for students and faculty. Turning attention to the teaching of reading and writing as central to social sciences pedagogy of critical thinking, she is hoping to make the teaching of academic writing impactful in its inclusion in India higher education. Prior to this she studied, trained to teach, and taught, literatures of the British renaissance where she cultivated her love for careful reading and writing. She is also a poet, a short story writer, and an art photographer and she finds her interest in composition cuts across different genres and forms of visual and verbal imagination and intellection. Among other things, Anannya is the author of Between Sure Places (2015), Magical Epistemologies: Forms of knowledge in Early Modern English Drama (forthcoming 2018) and has co-edited a critical anthology, This Unsettled Place: Readings in American Poetry and Short Stories (2014).
Paromita Vohra
Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer whose work focuses on gender, feminism, urban life, love, desire and popular culture and spans many forms including documentary, fiction, print, video and sound installation. Her films include the path-breaking Unlimited Girls and Q2P as well as Partners in Crime, Morality TV and The Loving Jehad, Where’ Sandra, Cosmopolis: Two Tales of A City, Annapurna, Work in Progress and A Woman’s Place. She recently directed the cutting-edge prime time TV series Connected Hum Tum. She has written the internationally released Pakistani film Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters), several documentaries including Skin Deep, If You Pause: In a Museum of Craft and Stuntmen of Bollywood and the comic Priya’s Mirror. Her writing includes long-form nonfiction, essays, columns and short fiction and has been published in the anthologies Bombay Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai, The Tranquebar Book of Indian Erotica, The Penguin Book of Schooldays, Defending Our Dreams, Mumbai Noir, Cinema City, Tilt | Pause | Shift: Dance Ecologies in India and First Proof and journals, including Signs, South Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Bioscope, Tehelka, Elle, Outlook, Vogue, India Today, Indian Express, The Times of India, Mint Lounge, India Quarterly, The Ladies Finger, Paper Cuts and Yahoo Originals. She is the founder and creative director of Agents of Ishq, a website about sex and desire for Indians and writes the weekly columns "Paronormal Activity" in Sunday Mid-day and "How To Find Indian Love" in the Mumbai Mirror.
Bittu
Bittu is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Biology at Ashoka University. He got his PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University. He was a DST Dr. Kothari postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, and then a DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellow at the Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Hyderabad. He is interested in the ways in which collective social scientific thinking is limited by the structures that tend to either overconstrain or underconstrain types of scientific writing, from the original research article to the review, to what is called popular science writing in the form of books and non-scientific articles.
D. Venkat Rao
D. Venkat Rao teaches at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He studied at Kakatiya University, Warangal, and at University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He did Postdoctoral research at University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Washington, Seattle. In addition to books in English and Telugu he has published several articles in national and international journals. His recent work is Critical Humanities from India: Contexts, Issues, Futures (Routledge, 2018), and his other publications include Cultures of Memory in South Asia (Springer, 2014), In Citations: Readings in Area Studies of Culture (1999), a translation of Ashis Nandy’s The Intimate Enemy into Telugu (2005). Earlier he translated into English a Telugu intellectual autobiography called The Last Brahmin (2007, 2012, 2017). His areas of interest include literary and cultural studies, image studies, comparative thought, translation, and mnemocultures. He has designed several courses interfacing areas of culture, technology and literary and cultural studies.