Literature Across Borders

Meghaa Gupta has worked in Indian children’s publishing for over a decade and believes that all change begins with getting children to read books that demystify the world and its infinite possibilities. She heads the young people’s programme at the Green Literature Festival, curates a course on nature writing for young readers at Azim Premji University and writes books on environment and contemporary history for children.

Her picture book, A Home of Our Own (Tulika, 2018) is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Book Club. Her latest book is After Midnight: A History of Independent India (Penguin, 2022).   

Dr Alexia Casale is the Programme Leader of the MA Writing for Young People, Bath Spa University, and an author of YA and adult fiction. Read her full bio here. 

Professor Alexander Robert Phillips is an assistant professor of English at Ashoka University. Prior to coming to Ashoka, he taught in Germany and the United States. After studying at the University of California, Irvine and the Humboldt Universität in Berlin, he completed his PhD in German Studies at Cornell University.

He has published on literature, ecology, environmental aesthetics, and nineteenth century mass media. His forthcoming book, Ecology and German Realism: Poetics, Politics, and the Conquest of Nature explores the relationship between the representation of environmental degradation and aesthetic reflection in German literature in the years of Germany's industrialization between 1840 and 1900.

Nell Griffin is our alumna assistant, helping with various aspects of the project, including chairing one of the student dialogues. 

Nell is a creative writing graduate from Bath Spa University. In 2023, she graduated with an MA in Writing for Young People, having gained her BA (Hons) in Creative Writing also from Bath Spa in 2020.

She has led creative writing seminars at the European Forum in Alpbach, featured on a panel for Leaf Journal’s inaugural conference about writing for young people, and has since had her paper published on the journal’s website. She is currently working on her debut Young Adult novel.

Richa Chadda is doing sterling work for us on the tech and social media side of things.

Richa is an avid reader, a dreamer and a firm believer in the power of books. She is passionate about working for and with children, and is of the opinion that learning is a by-product of having fun.

With a strong interest in literature and digital technology, Richa works with klib, an organisation that provides corporate library solutions, making books and reading accessible and enjoyable for employees of organisations.