Sangeeta Ray is Vamberry Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature as well as Professor of English at the University of Maryland. She is currently the Faculty Director of the Center of Literary and Comparative Studies. She is also a past president of ACLA. She teaches anglophone postcolonial literature, South Asian literature, literature from the black diaspora, and Asian American literature. She is the author of two monographs and the co-editor of two collections including the 3 volume Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Her current interests include environmental studies as well the field of refugee studies. She is primarily a literary scholar engaged in questions of form and genre, postcolonial reading practices and the relationship between aesthetics, ethics and politics. She is currently working on two books, the first tentatively titled Form Fitted: Postcolonial Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics and a book on South Asian refugee literature in Bengali, English, Hindi and in translation.