Soumyaneel Dasgupta (Neel) is a PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. He holds a BA, an MA, and an MPhil in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University in India. He is a winner of UGA's Presidential Fellow Award. He has taught, and continues to teach- Asian American literature and Children's literature at UGA. His research interests focus on Science Fiction in Diasporic and Post-Colonial Contexts.