Kanika Batra is Professor of English at Texas Tech University. She teaches and researches postcolonial studies, feminist and queer studies, urban studies, and globalization. She is the author of Caribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott and Edward Brathwaite (Indira Gandhi National Open University, 2001) and Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama (Routledge, 2010).