Anu Pande teaches courses on literature and cultural history in the Department of Germanic Studies at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. She has a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and takes an active interest in Gender Studies, discourses of violence, representations of disease and death in literature, and Human-Animal Studies. In her research, she explores processes of othering across a broad spectrum, ranging from political belief to gender identity and species belonging. She is also an experienced literary translator and co-founder of the Indian Animal Studies Collective.