Praseeda Gopinath is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University, New York. She is the author of Scarecrows of Chivalry: English Masculinities after Empire (University of Virginia Press, 2013). She has published widely in masculinity studies, postcolonial literature, twentieth-century British literature, sound, film, and cultural studies. Her work has appeared in South Asian Popular Culture, Contemporary Literature, Textual Practice, Studies in the Novel, Journal of Celebrity Studies and elsewhere. She is currently writing a book on vernacular masculinities in contemporary India while co-editing, with Laura Brueck, The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature.