Aliya Ram is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton University. Her work explores the relationships between aesthetic innovation, subject formation and coercive social bonds, and she is writing her dissertation on experiments with literary address in twentieth century fiction and poetry from the anglophone and francophone Caribbean, South Asia, the US and Britain. Her academic writing has appeared in Critical Inquiry and Comparative Literature Studies, and is forthcoming in English Literary History. She is currently at work on a book about the South Asia Translation Workshop she co-founded in 2019, which uses multiple translation as a pedagogical entry point for exploring cultural difference and multilingualism in the region (forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic). Before graduate school, Aliya worked for five years as a news reporter at the Financial Times, where her reporting on technology was shortlisted for the British Press Awards and British Journalism awards. She also writes fiction and poetry, which is represented by the Creative Artists Agency. She received her B.A. (Hons) in English Literature, with a paper in French, from the University of Cambridge.