Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras

Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. Her interests include film studies, drama and popular culture. She has a PhD in American Drama, was the recipient of the Canadian Faculty Enrichment Programme fellowship in 2009 and was attached to Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. She has published over 30 articles in academic journals of repute, including Cambridge, Oxford, Routledge and SAGE. She edited Postliberalization Indian Novels in English: Politics of Global Reception and Awards (2013). She is the organizer of Imaging Cinema, a popular film workshop (2010–2012 and 2014) at IIT Madras.