Author: Rukmini Pande / O.P. Jindal Global University

Rukmini Pande is an Associate Professor in Communication and Literary Studies at O.P Jindal Global University, India. She is currently part of the editorial board of the Journal of Fandom Studies and Mallorn: The Journal of Tolkien Studies and has been published in multiple edited collections including the Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies and The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture Tourism. She has also been published in peer reviewed journals such as Transformative Works and Cultures and The Journal for Feminist Studies. Her monography Squee From The Margins: Race in Fandom, was published in 2018 by the University of Iowa Press. Her edited collection, Fandom, Now In Color: A Collection of Voices, bringing together cutting-edge scholarship on race/ism in fandom, was published in December 2020.