Laura Brueck is a Professor of South Asian and Comparative Literatures at Northwestern University, with special interests in caste and race, Dalit literature and literary publics, Indian detective fiction and media, modern and contemporary Hindi literature, and the theory and practice of translation. She has written, translated, and edited several books and journal issues on Dalit literature, gender and vernacular literatures in India, and Indian sound studies. She is currently writing a book on Indian detective fictions and co-editing, with Praseeda Gopinath, The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literatures (forthcoming 2024). She is the co-founder and co-director of Northwestern’s Race, Caste, and Colorism Project.