Gayatri Thanu Pillai is an Instructor in the Department of English Literature, Linguistics and Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where she was formerly Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She holds a PhD jointly awarded by King’s College, London and NUS. She was awarded the Maurice Baker Prize for her doctoral research on colonial South Indian literature. Her areas of research interest are ecocriticism, postcolonial theory, South and Southeast Asian colonial and postcolonial literature, and translation studies. She is co-researcher on a project for the National Arts Council, Singapore. She is the Managing Editor of The Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism and has in the past held editorial positions at Orient BlackSwan.