Subhalakshmi Gooptu, is an Assistant Professor of World Literature at Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY). She completed her PhD in English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in May 2022. She specializes in Postcolonial and Anglophone literatures with a focus on South Asia and the Caribbean, Asian diasporic studies, histories of labor migration in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, critical race studies, transnational gender/sexuality studies, and postcolonial theory. She has additional teaching strengths in first and junior-year composition as well as writing across curriculum. She is currently revising her dissertation project, titled Stories Women Carry: Labor and Reproductive Imaginaries of South Asia and the Caribbean, into a book manuscript.