Nikhita Obeegadoo is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Chicago. Her teaching and research interests include contemporary literatures of oceans and archipelagos, ecocritical studies of the Global South, the medical humanities, and the link between literature and (the blind spots of) history. Her current book project explores how writers from archipelagic spaces (including the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, and the Pacific) are formulating new creative and critical ways of (re)membering entwined ecological and colonial legacies, including those of enslavement, indenture and clandestine migration. She was born and grew up in Mauritius.