Dr. Asha Sen is the Foundation Leadership Faculty Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where she is Professor of English and an affiliate of the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She received her PhD in Postcolonial Literature and Theory from Purdue University in 1996 and is the author of Postcolonial Yearning: Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourse in Contemporary Literature (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She directed the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program from 2013-2016, is interested in international education and has participated in international exchanges with Harlaxton University and Delhi University.