Sathyaraj Venkatesan Author & Editor

Rajesh James is an independent documentary filmmaker and an Assistant Professor of English at Sacred Heart College, Kochi, India. His major documentary films include In Thunder, Lightning and Rain (2019) Naked Wheels (2017) and Zebra Lines (2014). Shaped by the conventions of cinema verite and ethnography, his key thematic concerns are gender, caste and, subalternity as refracted through the prism of labour. He was awarded Riyad Wadia Award for the Best Emerging Filmmaker, India in 2017. Sathyaraj Venkatesan is Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India. He is the author of nine books and over hundred research publications that span African American literature, health humanities, graphic medicine, film studies, and other literary and cultural studies disciplines. He is most recently co-editor of Pandemics and Epidemics in Cultural Representation (Singapore: Springer, 2022).