Dr. Ridhima Tewari is Associate Professor of English in the Department of HEART (Humanities, Economics, Arts and Rural Technologies) at the Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad in Karnataka, India. She is trained in Literature and Literary Studies from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and obtained her Ph. D. from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender studies, literature and feminist philosophy. She is the recipient of the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s (now Ministry of Education) IMPRESS grant for the project Women in the Intellectual and Historical Traditions of North Karnataka: A Digital Archive. Dr. Tewari created the archive uttare.in to digitise women’s diverse contributions from the North Karnataka region. She has published widely in the domain of gender studies, specifically on women’s work, mobility, folk texts and practices. As a co-investigator of a University of Delhi-sponsored study titled Mall: A Gendered Space, she has also undertaken ethnographic research on mothering and motherhood practices in the context of globalisation and social change in India today. She is currently engaged in research on the transgendered community of Jogathis from North Karnataka, as well as on a monograph on the Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto.