Shalini Puri is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work spans postcolonial, Caribbean, gender, and memory studies; indentureship, slavery, and incarceration; environmental humanities, and social movements. She is especially interested in interdisciplinary and fieldwork-based methods that explore the intersection of the arts, everyday life, and social justice. 

She is the author of The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present and The Caribbean Postcolonial. She has co-edited 4 books: Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities; Caribbean Military Encounters; The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics; and Marginal Migrations. She co-edits Palgrave Macmillan’s New Caribbean Studies series. She is working on a book entitled Writing On Water: Postcards from the Caribbean Anthropocene.