Karishma Koshal (she/her)

I am an AHRC-funded PhD researcher in the Department of English at the University of Exeter. My research project examines the monolithic construction of the trade publishing market in South Asia and aims to provides a groundbreaking analysis of the uneven literary market in India and South Asia. I am supervised by Prof Amina Yaqin at the University of Exeter and by Dr Florian Stadtler at the University of Bristol. 

At Exeter, I am a postgraduate researcher representative at the South Asia Centre. I am also involved with my AHRC scheme, the South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership's Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion team. 

I have worked in India's creative industries for five years and hold an MLitt in Publishing Studies from the University of Stirling. I was Publishing Editor at Impart, a digital archive of 10,000 years of South Asian art history. Prior to that, I was an editor at the New Delhi-based independent publishing house, Aleph Book Company, where I worked on, among others, The Indians (2023), a collection of 100 essays on 12,000 years of 'Indian' history co-edited by GN Devy, Tony Joseph, and Ravi Korisettar. I was also the Social Media Engagement Fellow at The Caravan, an independent and award-winning magazine on politics and culture.