An arts writer and photographer from New Delhi, Raunak’s writing and research is situated in the overlap between expressionist, body-horror cinemas and contemporary American pop-cultures with reference to critical and formalist studies of queerness. They hold a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and an M.Phil in Film and Screen Studies from the University of Cambridge — where they were the recipient of the Joan Simms Prize for Academic Excellence. As a doctoral student of Interdisciplinary Theatre and Drama at Northwestern, Raunak is also affiliated with the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program as a Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Cluster Fellow.