Pande, Rukmini: - Rukmini Pande is an Assistant Professor of English Literature and Communication at O.P. Jindal Global University, India. Her research interests coalesce around the field of Digital Humanities and include issues relating to intersectional identity in popular culture, new media and postcolonial cybercultures. In particular, she has published widely on the topic of race/racism in media fandom, and is the author of Squee From The Margins: Race in Fandom (2018) and editor of Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices (2020). She is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Fandom Studies and Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Studies and has been published in multiple edited collections on fans and fandom, including The Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (edited by Paul Booth, 2018) and Seeing Fans (edited by Paul Booth and Lucy Bennett, 2016). Her work has also appeared in the journal Transformative Works and Cultures as well as the Journal of Feminist Studies.