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Shuchi Kapila teaches literature in English from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. Her other teaching interests include transnational feminisms, the novel, and narrative theory.   Her scholarly work focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century British colonialism and literary and cultural production in postcolonial South Asia.  Her first book, Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule (Ohio State Univ Press, 2010), analyzes Anglo-Indian romances written by British colonials who lived in India during a period of indirect colonial rule. Her second book, Learning to Remember: Postmemory and the Partition of India (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) is a study of memory practices attached to the partition from first person witness testimonies to a contemporary archive and museum dedicated to the Partition.