Dr.Merin Simi Raj is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras. She specializes in Postcolonial Writing, Modernity Studies and Historiography Studies. Her teaches History of English Language and Literature, Indian fiction in English, Literary Criticism, World Literature and Feminist Writings. Her teaching and research interests include literary historiography, Literary Criticism, Indian writing in English, Postcolonial literature and Narratives of marginality. She is trained in Digital Humanities (TEI) from the University of Oxford, and is part of an international Project with TCS and Marks & Spencer. Her co-edited book on Anglo-Indian Identity will be published by Palgrave Macmillan by early 2021.