Aditi Sriram is an Associate Professor at Shiv Nadar University Chennai. In addition to a rich legacy of teaching academic writing (at SUNY Purchase and at Ashoka University) she is also an author and contributor of books and essays on the subject. Aditi is co-writing a textbook titled An Introduction to Academic Writing, forthcoming with Routledge. In a similar genre, Aditi contributed chapters to The Pocket Instructor: Writing: 50 Exercises for the College Classroom in 2024. She is also the author of Beyond the Boulevards: A Short Biography of Pondicherry, published by Aleph Book Company in 2019. Now Aditi is writing a children’s book about an Indian dancer, forthcoming with Niyogi Books, as part of a series about prominent Indian women.

Madhura Lohokare (she/they) directs the Centre for Writing Studies, O.P. Jindal University, Sonipat, Haryana. A staunch believer in democratizing practices of reading and writing as a means of knowledge production, Madhura has conducted writing workshops for undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral research scholars across public universities in India. Their current research interests focus on interrogating frameworks of care in pedagogy, ethnographic methodologies for researching academic reading and writing and on articulations between urban modernity and caste privilege.