Debjani Ganguly is Director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature and Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is also Professor of Literature at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU Melbourne. She is the author of This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form (2016) and Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity (2005). Her latest monograph, Catastrophic Modes and Planetary Realism, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. She is the editor of the two-volume The Cambridge History of World Literature (2021) and general editor with Francesca Orsini of the monograph series, Cambridge Studies in World Literature. As Director of Humanities Institutes at the University of Virginia (2016-2023) and the Australian National University (2007-2014), Debjani has fostered international projects in pre-modern global cultures, world literature,  environmental humanities, oceanic studies, digital humanities, informatics, big data, and AI. She has served on the board of the global Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes from 2009-2021.