Poulomi Saha is Associate Professor of English and co-director of the Program in Critical Theory at UC-Berkeley. Their first book, An Empire of Touch: Women’s Political Labor & the Fabrication of East Bengal (Columbia UP, 2019) was awarded the Harry Levin Prize for outstanding first book by the American Comparative Literature Association in 2020. She is currently at work on Fascination: America’s “Indian” Cults  which considers the intense cultural enthrallment and fear of “Indian” spirituality in the American imagination— and is always interested in hearing about people’s own cult stories.