Ishani Anwesha Joshi earned her Ph.D. in English from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. She specializes in Graphic Medicine, Health Humanities, and Comic Studies, with a particular focus on COVID Comics. Her research articles have been published in various indexed journals such as Medical Humanities, Visual Studies, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Journal of Medical Humanities, and Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, among others.
Sathyaraj Venkatesan is a Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, his research focuses on Graphic Medicine, Health Humanities, and American Literature. He has authored nine books and published over a hundred research articles in indexed journals. His recent co-authored/co-edited books are India Retold (2021), Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine (2021), and Pandemics and Epidemics in Cultural Representation (2022).