Ulka Anjaria is Associate Professor of English at Brandeis University, Massachusetts. She is the author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form (Cambridge, 2012), and has published in such journals as South Asian Popular Culture, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, and Economic and Political Weekly. She is the recipient of an ACLS/Charles A. Ryskamp fellowship in 2014 for her current book project on realism in contemporary Indian literature, film, and television.