Anjali Nerlekar is Associate Professor in the Department of AMESALL at Rutgers University and co-editor of Modernism/modernity. Her publications include Bombay Modern: Arun Kolatkar and Bilingual Literary Culture (2016; Indian edition by Speaking Tiger, 2017), a co-edited special double issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing ("The Worlds of Bombay Poetry," 2017), and a co-edited special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies on "Postcolonial Archives" in 2021. Her ongoing project (in collaboration with Dr. Bronwen Bledsoe) is the building of an archive of multilingual post-1960 Bombay poetry at Cornell University Library, "The Bombay Poets Archive." She is also currently working on her second book manuscript which examines the multilingual borders of Marathi literature.
Ulka Anjaria is professor of English and director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University, USA, with research specialties in South Asian literature and film, realism and the global novel. 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) and the editor of A History of the Indian Novel in English (2015).