Members of the Peer Review Committee
Dr. Mohar Daschoudhuri
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Dr. Mohar Daschoudhuri is a Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi, India. She works at the Centre for French and Francophone Studies within the School of Language Literature and Culture Studies at JNU. She holds a PhD in French from JNU. She has several accolades to her name and has authored and peer reviewed papers for several international journals. Her areas of interest include 19th and 20th Century French Literature, Contemporary French and Francophone Women's Writing, Re-writing of Mythology, and Francophone Immigrant Writing from Asia.
Dr. Lipi Biswas Sen
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Dr. Lipi Biswas Sen is an Assistant Professor at Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies, School of Language Literature and Culture at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, Canada, where she also worked as a Teaching Assistant and Instructor under the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her areas of specialisation include Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Indigenism, Urban Narratives, Displacement, Memory Studies, Space and Place in Literature, and Globalization.
Dr. Meenakshi Sundriyal
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Dr. Meenakshi Sundriyal is an Assistant Professor at JNU. She is associated with the Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies under the School of Language Literature and Culture Studies at JNU. She holds a PhD from JNU.
Dr. Mohammad Aquil
Jindal Global Law School
Mohammad Aquil is a historian and a Professor at Jindal Global Law School. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Law, Justice and Society (CJLS) and has previously worked for the Indian Institute for Dalit Studies. He is currently pursuing his PhD from JNU in the Centre for Historical Studies. His areas of specialisation include urban history, modernity, history of gender, art and architecture, caste, public culture, and citizenship.
Dr. Shilpi Gupta
VIT Vellore
Dr. Shilpi Gupta is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Language at the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. Her areas of interest include transnational studies, women's studies, postcolonial studies, border studies, and Hispanic literature. Her works have been published in several Scopus-indexed journals.
Amrit Raj
Manipal
Amrit Raj is a Lecturer of Spanish Studies at the Manipal Institute of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts (MISHA), MAHE, Manipal. He holds an M.Phil. in Latin American Literature from CSPILAS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD from JNU, New Delhi, with a thesis on the eco-critical study of selected works by Homero Aridjis and Amitav Ghosh.
Dr. B R Alamelu
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Dr. B.R. Alamelu is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for English Studies, School of Languages, Literature and Culture at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She holds a PhD (2014) from JNU on diasporic Indian women's writings, with 18 years of experience teaching and researching diaspora, gender, disability studies, and indigenous literatures. Her achievements include an ICSSR project on visually disabled women (2025-ongoing), serving as Founding Coordinator of Delhi University's Centre for Disability Studies (2022-2023), and publishing works including a 2024 JIMR article.
Shri Irfan Ahmad
Sikkim University
Shri Irfan Ahmad is an Assistant Professor at Sikkim University. He holds an MPhil and Master's in Chinese from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and pursued advanced studies at Beijing Language University. A polyglot expert in Chinese language, culture, and India-China relations, his distinctions include UPSC empanelment (2017), interpreting for India's PM (2019), topping Chinese Bridge contests (2013), translating "Moment in Peking" into Hindi (2020), and publications including "China's Political Rhetoric" (2016). His areas of specialisation include India-China soft power, Chinese language, and Chinese culture.
Professor Meenu Bhatnagar
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Dr. Meenu Bhatnagar is a Professor at the Centre of Russian Studies, School of Languages, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She specialises in Modern Russian Language, with key interests in linguistics, translation, interpretation, culture, and film studies. Her recent publications include editing conference proceedings such as Philology in the Contemporary World: Views From Russia and India (2024) and translating Nirmal Verma's Hindi short stories into Russian under a Ministry of External Affairs initiative.
Dr. Archana Kumari
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Dr. Archana Kumari is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Media Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She holds a PhD, MPhil, and MMC, specialising in media economy, media sociology, development communication, and media/information literacy. From 2014–2023, she served as Assistant Professor at Central University of Jammu's Department of Mass Communication and New Media, with prior roles at Central University of Kashmir (2012–2014), Central University of Bihar (2011–2012), and Indian Institute of Mass Communication (2006–2010). As Principal Lead for India, she contributed to an international comparative study on newsrooms and beats.
Dr. Nameirakpam Taibangnganbi
Dr. N. Taibangnganbi serves as Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Allahabad, holding a PhD in Economics from the University of Madras. Her research examines healthcare services, regional development in North-East India, microfinance, and socioeconomic issues like gender and labour, reflected in numerous peer-reviewed publications, two authored books, and four published patents. She has guided M.Phil and PhD scholars while teaching at institutions such as Vels Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies and Ethiraj College for Women.
Dr. Mala Shikha
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Dr. Mala Shikha is an Associate Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi. She is associated with the Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies in the School of Language Literature and Culture Studies at JNU and is an Erasmus Mundus Scholar. Her areas of specialisation include Indo-Hispanic Reception Studies, Golden Age Spanish Literature, Medieval Iberian Culture and Literature, Contemporary Hispanic Literature and Culture, Spanish as a Foreign Language in the context of India (ELE), Women's Writings, Literary Criticism, and Literary Translations. She has published several papers on these topics.