Akshya Saxena is an assistant professor of English and an affiliate faculty member of Asian Studies and Cinema and Media Arts at Vanderbilt University. She is a scholar of 20th- and 21st-century literature and media, focusing on South Asia. Her areas of specialization are postcolonial studies, global comparatism, media studies, and language and translation. She is the author of Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (Princeton UP 2022) and the co-editor of Thinking With An Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (U of California P 2023). Her scholarship also appears in journals such as Cultural Critique, ariel, Interventions, Wasafiri, and South Asian Review.