Mukti Lakhi Mangharam is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. Her first book: Literatures of Liberation: Non-European Universalisms and Democratic Progress (Ohio State UP, 2017) explores local radical universalisms in Indian and South African literatures as they are put to work towards democratic change. Her second book, Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture, explores neoliberal iterations of individual freedom in post-1990s India and the radical ideas of equality and agency that are harnessed against them in texts including the Dalit memoir, film, and the realist novel.