Shwetha Chandrashekhar is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on South Asian literature, cinema, and culture, affect studies, postcolonial and anticolonial studies, transnational feminisms, and the environmental humanities. Her academic work has been published in South Asian Review, South Asian History and Culture, and Critical Inquiry and is forthcoming in ariel: A Review of International English Literature. She is completing her dissertation, Unpleasant Feelings: Ordinary Affects and Everyday Violence in Postcolonial South Asian Anglophone Fiction which maps the ambiguities and contingencies of unpleasantness in the works of Manu Joseph, Aravind Adiga, Mirza Waheed, Anuk Arudpragsam, Indra Sinha, Mohammed Hanif, Arundhati Roy, and Gemini Wahhaj.