Award-winning Professor Nandi Bhatia, Department of English and Writing Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Western University, researches Postcolonial Literature and theory, literary and theatrical practices, nationalism, colonialism, and the British Empire’s engagement with India. Her research mission is to trace the ruptures and crossovers produced by empire across literature, theatre, displacement, and diaspora, with a sustained focus on India and postcolonial cultural production. Bhatia also teaches graduate courses such as Postcolonial Literature and Theory and Postcolonial Diasporas. Dr. Bhatia earned a Ph.D in Comparative Literature at University of Texas at Austin and another Ph.D in English at Panjab University and taught at University of Texas and Michigan State University before coming to Western University in 1997.