Rohit Chakraborty is a writer, scholar, and critic from Guwahati, Assam. They are a 2024 – 25 SIRE Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences and PhD candidate in English at Emory University where they are writing their dissertation titled “Epicene Intimacies” on the “shadow canon” of South Asian queer literature between 1924 and 2008. Their criticism has appeared in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and GLQ, and their public scholarship has been published in Scroll and The Caravan, among other places. They were the inaugural Edward Guiliano Global Fellow awarded by the Modern Language Association in 2023. They live between Atlanta and Calcutta.
Themal Ellawala is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago. Intrigued, bemused, and enamored by the diffuse queerness he encounters in Sri Lanka, he attends to queer and trans forms on the island through categories of silence, absence,...
