Kavita Daiya (she/her, kdaiya@gwu.edu) is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the George Washington University. She is the author of several articles and two monographs: Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India (Temple UP, [2008] 2011; Yoda Press, 2013) and Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora (Temple UP, 2020; Yoda Press, 2021). This latest book draws upon the insights of Critical Refugee Studies, to offer a feminist analysis of post-1947 geopolitical displacement, diaspora, and refugee experience in South Asia and South Asian America. She edited Graphic Narratives about South Asian and South Asian America: Aesthetics and Politics (Routledge, 2019) and was on the Founding Board of Directors of the digital humanities initiative, 1947PartitionArchive.org (2015-2021).