Dr Somdatta Bhattacharya is currently an Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Languages and Literature, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India. Prior to this, she was an Assistant Professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur. Her research interests are rooted in areas of urban cultures, social theories of space and spatiality, crime fiction, city in literature, Indian writing in English, gender and popular culture, and she has taught, published and supervised doctoral work extensively in these areas. Her essays have appeared in journals such as Clues, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Society and Culture in South Asia and Studies in the Humanities. She is also a part of translation projects of gothic short fiction and is presently working on a paper on feminist body-horror.