Dr Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Her academic interests include gender, caste, media representations and subaltern literature. Her scholarly articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals including South Asian Popular Culture and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, and in several edited book collections. She co-edited Gender, Cinema, Streaming Platforms: Shifting Frames in Neoliberal India (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). She was awarded a fellowship for a collaborative research project Manly Matters, granted by the Humboldt Foundation, Germany and she was also a Visiting Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has participated in Erasmus + teaching programmes. She is a member of COST Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) project. Runa is a creative writer and translator. Her translated stories have been published by Orient Blackswan and Sahitya Akademi, Delhi.