🧿 Raina Bhagat 🧿

Reactionary Worldbuilding Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible worlds that differ in crucial ways from the one governed by shared assumptions of the “norm...

The essay is also going to be reprinted in an edited collection with @mitpress.bsky.social, Reactionary Worldbuilding - out in May 2026! Edited by Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, David M. Higgins, and @jordanscarroll.bsky.social.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026205367...

Subterranean Asias: Cold War Extraction in Indian and Russian Science Fiction Abstract. As the Global North burns through our planet’s nonrenewable natural reserves, we find ourselves amid a crisis of resources. The legacy of Cold War consumption necessitated the extraction of ...

My first peer-reviewed article came out in @complit.bsky.social last September, bringing together the research, time and reading I've spent in India and Central Asia. You can read more about it here: read.dukeupress.edu/comparative-...

Greetings to my new followers, and welcome back to those of you I was connected to on Twitter ☺️ - it's been an eventful couple of years! I am now at @huntercollege.bsky.social as an English assistant professor, and from here on out will be calling New York City my new home :)