She has published in several refereed journals and anthologies. Her forthcoming book is titled Face to Face: Hindi Cinema Encounters the Divine.
Alan Robinson is professor of English at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. He has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Lancaster, and Cologne, and at all the German Swiss universities. His most recent book is Imagining London, 1770–1900 (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Wai-chew Sim received his PhD from Warwick University, UK, and is currently assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of Globalization and Dislocation in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2006), and editor of Island Voices: A Collection of Short Stories from Singapore (coeditor Angelia Poon; Singapore: Learners, 2007). His fiction has appeared in the Straits Times (Singapore), in Silverfish New Writing 5 (Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish, 2005) and in the e-zines Julie Mango, EnterText, and Asiatic.
Tamara S. Wagner obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2002 and is currently assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is the author of Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740–1890 (2004) and Occidentalism in Novels of Malaysia and Singapore, 1819–2004: Colonial and Postcolonial “Financial Straits” (2005). She recently coedited a collection on Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century (2007) and a special issue on nineteenth-century literature for Fiction and Drama. Her current projects include a book-length study of financial speculation in Victorian literature.