Organising Committee

Neha Mishra is Assistant Professor of Practice at the Centre for Writing and Pedagogy, Krea University. She is also the tutoring coordinator for the two tutoring programmes offered by the CWP – Peer Tutoring and WRITE. Before joining Krea-CWP, Neha worked as an editor at the Global Editions division of Pearson Education, NOIDA, where she edited higher education books like Woolfolk’s Educational Psychology 14e, Creswell’s Educational Research 6e, Leedy’s Practical Research 12e, among others. A literature scholar by training, she has received BA(H) in English from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, MA in English from Shiv Nadar University, Greater NOIDA, and MPhil in English from the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Delhi University. Her research interests include violence against women, women’s writings, literary theory, and feminist theory.

Sayantan Datta (they/them) is an assistant professor of practice at the Centre for Writing & Pedagogy, Krea University, and an independent science journalist and a children’s book writer. Initially trained as a neuroscientist, their research and writing now explores intersections of gender, sexuality, caste, health and science. Their work has been recognized by the Laadli Award for Gender Sensitivity in Media and Advertising (2023) and the SAGE-Ashoka Prize for Critical Writing Pedagogies (2024, with Vivek Tewary). Both their children’s books, The Plant Whisperer and Grace (both published by Pratham Books), have been listed in the Parag Honour list (2023 and 2024 respectively). Their research and writing has been funded by grants from the UK Research Initiative’s Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures project, the National Association for Science Writers, USA, and the ReFrame Institute of Art and Expression. One can read more about them at sayantanspins.com.

Vivek Tewary is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences, Krea University working on analysis of partial differential equations. Specifically, he works on the theory of homogenisation — the study of small-scale heterogeneities in physical models; and regularity theory of elliptic and parabolic equations which is about smoothness of solutions in different function spaces. His research is informed by ideas from physics and engineering and he wishes to learn from and work with people in those disciplines. Along with Sayantan Datta, he teaches a writing course in Mathematics. More can be found at vivektewary.github.io.