Sathyaraj Venkatesan PhD is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy (India). His research concentrates on global health humanities, graphic medicine, and literary health humanities. He is the author of nine books and over ninety research publications that span African American literature, health humanities, graphic medicine, film studies, and other literary and culture studies disciplines. His recent co-authored books are Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine (New York/London: Routledge, 2021) and India Retold (New York: Bloomsbury, 2021).