Swarnalatha Rangarajan is professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras, and is passionate about environmental humanities. She is the founding editor of the Indian Journal of Ecocriticism (IJE). Her academic publications include Ecocriticism: Big Ideas and Practical Strategies (2018). She has co-edited Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development (2014); Ecocriticism of the Global South (2015); and the Routledge Book of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication. Her debut novel, Final Instructions was published in 2015.
