Kumkum Sangari is the William F. Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published extensively on British, American and Indian literature, critical theory, religious conversion, medieval oral devotional traditions, nationalist figures such as Gandhi and Annie Besant, Bombay cinema and partition, televisual memory, contemporary feminist art practice as well as contemporary gender issues such as personal law, domestic labour, the beauty industry, sex selection, dowry, commercial surrogacy, domestic violence, widow immolation and communal violence. She is the author of Solid : Liquid – A (Trans)national Reproductive Formation (2015) and Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English (2002); the editor of Arc Silt Dive: The Works of Sheba Chhachhi (2016); and Trace Retrace: Paintings, Nilima Sheikh (2013); and the co-editor of Women and Culture (1994); Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History (1997); and From Myths to Markets: Essays on Gender (1999).