A sampling of confirmed chapters includes:

• “Reconceptualizing Identities through Transmasculinity in India: A Gender Revisionist Approach,” Rubina Iqbal, PhD, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

• “Contradiction/Concurrence of Castration and the Fertile Phallus: A Transgender Reading of Ancient Indian Literature,” Ruman Sutradhar, PhD, Department of Political Science, Samuktala Sidhu Kanhu College, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India

• “Understanding the Psychosocial Needs of Hjira Living with HIV in Hyderabad, India,” Sameena Azhar, PhD, LCSW, MPH, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University, New York, New York, USA

• “Queer Futurities in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness,” Anna Guttman, PhD, Department of English, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

• “Sikhandi to Manobi: An Exploration of (Trans)Human Emotions through a Critical Study of Selected Transgender Biographies,” Bosudha Bandyopadhyay, PhD, Department of International Languages, Chitkara University, Punjab, India

• “Victor Turner’s Theory of Liminality: A Tool to Study the Lives of Deirdre N. McCloskey, Paula Grieg, and Living Smile Vidya,” Ramya Sampath, PhD, Department of English and Foreign Languages, SRM University, Tamil Nadu, India

• “Indian Influences and the Transgender Imagination in a Chinese Literary Classic: Journey to the West (西遊記),” Peter I-min Huang, PhD, Department of English, Tamkang University, New Taipei City , Taiwan