Krupa Shah teaches English at VIT University, Chennai. She has a PhD in Translation Studies from the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar. Her research interests include the cultural and literary history of twentieth century Gujarat, questions of language, identity and multilingualism in South Asia, film studies and francophone literature. She is also a translator and works with English, French and Gujarati with varying degrees of fluency. She can be reached at krupa.2586@gmail.com. She blogs at Krupa Shah