Pramod K Nayar, FEA, FRHistS, is a Senior Professor in the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India, and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies. He has published on Human Rights and Literary-Cultural Studies, Posthumanism, Graphic Novels, and English writings on India. His books have appeared from Polity, Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury, Routledge, Palgrave-Macmillan, Lexington, De Gruyter, Rowman and Littlefield, Penguin and Orient BlackSwan. Among these are Vulnerable Earth: The Literature of Climate Crisis, Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity and the Biopolitical Uncanny, Human Rights and Literature, Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India, Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture, The Extreme in Contemporary Culture, The Human Rights Graphic Novel: Drawing it Just Right, Alzheimer’s Disease Memoirs: Poetics of the Forgetting Self, Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity. He has received the Visitor’s Award for Best Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (2018) from the President of India and has been recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the English Association. He teaches elective courses in The New Humanities, Human Rights Cultures and Vulnerability Studies in the Department of English. 
He is also the Co-Principal Investigator of the world’s first OER for Indian Writing in English.

Anna Kurian, Faculty Fellow, UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad. She specializes in Shakespeare and the Early Modern, Children’s and Young Adult Literature and cultural politics. Her work has appeared in Radical Teacher, Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Scene, ANQ, English Teaching: Practice & Critique, Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. She has edited seven Literature Readers for Cambridge University Press, for use in middle-to-high school classes, and is the author of Shakespeare from Orient BlackSwan. Besides these, she occasionally writes for newspapers and periodicals on contemporary cultural politics and higher education. She is the Principal Investigator of the world’s first OER for Indian Writing in English. She has been cited in The New Oxford Shakespeare and The Year’s Work in English Studies.

Anjali Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India. She holds a Ph.D in English. Her areas of interest include Indenture Studies, Postcolonial Literature, Migration Studies, Memory Studies and Women’s Writing. She has travelled widely, presenting research papers on invitation in Australia (2017), Fiji (2019 and 2023), Poland (2023), and has published several research articles and chapters in reputed journals and edited volumes. Her book Voices and Silences: Narratives of Girmitiyas and Jahajis from Fiji and the Caribbean (2022) has been co-published by Manohar Publishers and Routledge. She has also conducted workshops on Creative and Academic Writing, as well as on English Communication Skills, in India and abroad. A voracious reader, she takes keen interest in tracing the politics of language, and derives intellectual stimulus from discussions on history, literature, and culture.

Asijit Datta works as Assistant Professor (II) and heads the Department of Media Studies at SRM University-AP. He is an integral part of the Editorial Board of the journal, “Studies in the Fantastic” (published by the University of Tampa Press). In July 2021, he was appointed Assistant Editor by the Journal of Posthumanism (Transnational Press, London). For the last four years, he has been maintaining an independent academic channel for students, academicians,andteachers. (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzxb2hTWGNNCOBfcXSgFb2g). Under this autonomous venture, he has interviewed some of the most influential and renowned scholars worldwide. He has also received critical acclaim and multiple awards for stage direction and scriptwriting. 

Aruni Mahapatra is currently Assistant Professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee. Prior to this, he was Assistant Professor at the Department of English, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. He earned a Ph.D in English from Emory University. His research and writings have been published in multiple peer-reviewed volumes, published by Cambridge University, the Taylor and Francis Group, among others. He has received awards and recognitions from organizations such as the George Woodruff Foundation, Harvard University, the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, and others. 

Avishek Parui (PhD, Durham UK) is Associate Professor in English at IIT Madras and Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He is the faculty coordinator of the Centre for Memory Studies IIT Madras and the co-founding chairperson of the Indian Network for Memory Studies. He is the recipient of the Global Fellowship 2023 from University of St. Andrews and the Institute of Advanced Study Fellowship 2024 from the University of Durham. He is the author of Postmodern Literatures (Orient Blackswan, 2018) and Culture and the Literary: Matter, Metaphor, Memory (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).

Chandrasekhar Bhadsavle, known as “Dada,” is a distinguished food scientist-turned-farmer. He pioneered the Saguna Rice Technique (SRT), a zero-tillage method enhancing soil health and reducing costs. Through the Saguna Rural Foundation, he advances sustainable agriculture and rural empowerment. Chandrashekhar Bhadsavle is a recipient of Maharashtra government's 'Krishi Ratna' and 'Krishi Bhushan' awards for excellence in agriculture.

D.Parthasarathy is Dean, School of Public Policy, Nayanta Education Foundation, which is setting up Nayanta University. He is currently on lien from IIT Bombay, where he was a Professor and former  Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. He was also an Associate Faculty and Convener, Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, and Associate Faculty, Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Study. He has held visiting positions at the Australian National University, National University of Singapore, and Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin . He is the author of Collective Violence in a Provincial City (OUP, 1997), and has co-edited “Women’s Self Help Groups: Restructuring Socio-Economic Development,” (Dominant, 2011), and “Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia” (Springer, 2013). He has taught, carried out research projects and published in the areas of urban studies, climate vulnerability and transformation, development studies, public policy, disaster governance, gender and development, and resource governance.

Professor Kanchan K. Malik has been teaching postgraduate Journalism and Mass Communication courses for over 20 years now. She obtained her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Hyderabad in 2005/6. Her widely-cited, co-authored book with Prof. Vinod Pavarala, Other Voices: the Struggle for Community Radio in India published by Sage (2007) documents the civil society endeavours for a third tier of broadcasting in India and freeing of the airwaves. With a dual Master’s in Economics and in Mass Communication, she worked as a journalist with The Economic Times, New Delhi for two years before settling for a career in academics. She has worked on several research projects and published research papers on media interventions by non-governmental organizations for empowerment at the grassroots level. Her work has also contributed to policy advocacy efforts for Community radio in India. She worked on the research “Religions, Ethics and Attitudes towards Corruption” as part of the Religions and Development project of the University of Birmingham. She was awarded the United States federal grant by the U.S. Consulate General Hyderabad to develop an academic curriculum on Media Ethics in collaboration SUNY Plattsburgh Department of Communication Studies. Her scholastic and research interests include: Print Journalism; Community Media and the Public Sphere; Women in Community Communications; Media Laws & Ethics; Media Research Methods and Communication for Social Change. She is a Faculty Fellow with the UNESCO Chair on Community Media and Editor of the newsletter – CR News brought out by the Chair in partnership with UNESCO.

Meenakshi Srihari is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the School of Arts and Sciences, Sai University, Chennai. She previously taught at the Department of English, NIT Andhra Pradesh. Dr Srihari’s research and writing focuses on the Medical Humanities, Graphic Medicine and Transmedial Storyworlds. Her writing has appeared in journals such as BMJ’s Medical Humanities and Media Watch. She has also contributed to Columbia University’s Synapsis and Open Educational Resources such as the University of Hyderabad’s IWE Online and NPTEL.

​Merin Simi Raj is Associate Professor (English) in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. She is the faculty coordinator of the Centre for Memory Studies and the co-founder and chairperson of  the Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS), the first national network in Asia under the aegis of the international Memory Studies Association (MSA).  She is trained in Digital Humanities at the University of Oxford. She researches in memory studies, historiography studies, Anglo-Indian studies, and digital humanities. She co-edited the volume Anglo-Indian Identity: Past and Present, in India and the Diaspora (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and is currently co-editing the Brill Indian Handbook for Memory Studies.

Dr Sapna is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Easwari School of Liberal Arts, SRM University, Andhra Pradesh. She is a PhD Public Health graduate. She completed her PhD from Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala. Her doctoral work explored the occupational health of workers engaged in e-waste processing in the unorganized sector of a south Indian city. Her interest areas include occupational health, health policy and system research, politics of knowledge, and sexual and reproductive health.

Saradindu Bhattacharya is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad. He has previously taught at the Central University of Karnataka and the Central University of Tamil Nadu. He teaches postgraduate courses on New Literatures in English, Anglo American Poetry, Victorian literature, and Indian literatures and popular culture. He has published journal articles in the domains of the pedagogy of English in India, young adult literature, and popular culture and media. He has also been involved in the development of online educational resources (OERs) on platforms like the UGC’s e-PGpathshala and NPTEL.

Dr. Shubhada Nagarkar is a Fulbright scholar and currently Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, and Co-ordinator, Centre for Publication Ethics (CPE), Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. At CPE, she has been instrumental in creating and maintaining the Research Portal of Savitribai Phule Pune University. Since 2018, she is a member of the Empower Committee of UGC-CARE and co-ordinating the UGC-Cell for Journal Analysis" established by UGC in January 2019.  She is a recipient of travel grants from the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, OCLC, USA, and GBIF, Copenhagen. Her areas of research are Bibliometrics, Publication ethics, Institutional repositories, and digital libraries. Her work has been published by Current Science, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Annals of Library and Information Studies, Library Review, Library Management.  She has been publishing popularising Library and Information Science articles in newspapers and on blogs. Recently her help is acknowledged by the Centre for Journalology, Ottawa hospital, which has recently launched the "one-stop shop for predatory journals". 

Sipra Mukherjee is Professor in the Department of English, West Bengal State University, India. Her research interests are Religion, Caste and Power. Her publications include Under My Dark Skin: translations of Dalit Writings form Bengal (2021), The Languages of Religion (Routledge, 2019), Interrogating My Chandal Life: autobiography of a Dalit (translation of Byapari’s Itibritte Chandal Jeeban, 2018, which won The Hindu Non-fiction Award, 2019), The Calcutta Mosaic: Minority Communities of Calcutta (2009).

Soni Wadhwa currently teaches in the Department of Literature and Languages at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh. Her digital archive of Sindhi books, PG Sindhi Library, is dedicated to post-partition book history and Sindhi literature published in India. Her project on Sindhi libraries in India is funded by IIT Indore. She contributes regularly to Asian Review of Books, Digital Orientalist, and Full Stop. 

Dr. Srirupa Chatterjee is an academic based out of Hyderabad. She is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Liberal Arts at IIT Hyderabad. Dr. Chatterjee specializes in gender studies and body image, literary and cultural studies, film and media studies, masculinity studies, and travel narratives. Her recent publication includes Female Body Image in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture (2024) from Temple University Press (USA), the first book of its kind addressing issues of body image vis-a-vis Indian womanhood.

Subarno Chattarji is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Delhi, India. He has also taught in Japan and Wales. His teaching and research focus on the literature of the Vietnam War and Holocaust memoirs. He studied at the universities of Delhi and Oxford, and was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at La Salle University, Philadelphia (20042005); a Kluge Postdoctoral Fellow at the Library of Congress (2006); and was awarded an Academic Writing Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (2017). He is Project Researcher for the International Program on Holocaust and Genocide Education (IPHGE) in India. His published works include Holocaust education in India: Fostering peaceful, resilient, and inclusive societies (co-author, 2024); The Distant Shores of Freedom: Vietnamese American Memoirs and Fiction (2019); Reconsidering English Studies in Indian Higher Education (co-author, 2015); Tracking the Media: Interpretations of Mass Media Discourses in India and Pakistan (2008); and Memories of a Lost War: American Poetic Responses to the Vietnam War (2001).

Swarnalatha Rangarajan is Professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras and is passionate about environmental humanities. She is the founding editor of the Indian Journal of Ecocriticism (IJE) and a guest editor for The Trumpeter, the flagship journal of deep ecology movement. Her academic publications include Ecocriticism: Big Ideas and Practical Strategies (2018) and co-edited works titled Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development (2014)and Ecocriticism of the Global South(2015). She is the co-translator of Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior(2018). She is one of the series editors for the Routledge Studies in World Literatures and Environment and the co-editor of the Routledge Book of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (2019). Her recent co-edited scholarly books include A Handbook of Medical-Environmental Humanities (Bloomsbury Academic 2022) and  Literary Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond: Anthropocene Natureculture((Routledge 2023). She has also authored several research papers in the domain of ecocriticism.

Vasuki Belavadi graduated with MA (Communication) in 1993 and completed his Ph.D. from University of Hyderabad in 2016. He worked for about 11 years in the Print, TV and NGO sectors in various capacities like City Reporter, Correspondent, Sub-editor, News Producer & Programme Co-ordinator.  He has taught at Manipal Institute of Communication and Tezpur University. He specialises in video production & has good grounding in radio programming & production too. His research interests include pedagogy of video production and community media. He is the author of Video Production (Oxford University Press, 2008), the first to be published in India. Vasuki Belavadi conducts capacity sharing training in Participatory Video, particularly for children & adolescents.

V.K. Karthika teaches English at NIT Tiruchirappalli, India. She earned her Master's in TESOL Studies from the University of Leeds, England, and Ph.D. from the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Her work has appeared in the Visual Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of International Women’s Studies, Peace Review, Rupkatha, ELT Journal, Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching, Journal of Asia TEFL, Higher Education for the Future, Radical Teacher, Journal of Poverty, Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, Journal of Engineering Education and Technology, and the Arithmetic of Compassion. Through her interdisciplinary approach, she explores design thinking, posthumanism, and sustainable development goals within the context of English Language Education.