Anjali Nerlekar is Associate Professor in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL), and Program in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. Her research interests span global modernisms, Indian print cultures, Marathi literature, Indo-Caribbean literature, spatial and cartographic studies of the city, and translation studies. She is the author of Bombay Modern: Arun Kolatkar and Bilingual Literary Culture(2016) and has also co-edited the special double issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing (53.1/2, 2017) on “The Worlds of Bombay Poetry.” In collaboration with Dr. Bronwen Bledsoe of Cornell University, she has created an ongoing collection of documents related to English and Marathi Bombay poetry titled “The Bombay Poets’ Archive.”

Email: nerlekar@amesall.rutgers.edu