Dr Devaleena Kundu is an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Studies, UPES, Dehradun, India. Former Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, she holds a PhD in English Literature from EFL University, Hyderabad, India. Her research primarily dwells on literary and popular cultural representations of death and dying. She is also interested in the depiction of crime and the criminal investigative eye in popular media.