Bhakti Shringarpure

Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer and academic who received a BA in Literature from Bard College and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York. She focuses on literature emerging from civil wars in the aftermath of European colonialism with an emphasis on narratives of nation, violence, gender, and the figure of the "other." She has written for several independent magazines and journals and currently teaches postcolonial literature and theory/criticism in the English department at Hunter College. She is the editor of Warscapes, an independent online magazine that provides a lens into current conflicts across the world.