Anu Aneja is Professor in the School of Gender and Development Studies at Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India. She earned a Bachelor's degree in French from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Pennsylvania State University. She taught for several years at Ohio Wesleyan University in the United States, where she was the recipient of the Rebecca Brown Professor of Literature award. She was also awarded the Beatrice B. Maines fellowship for research in women's studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published in the areas of contemporary French, francophone and Indian literatures, feminine discourses, feminist perspectives on mothering, and feminist theory and pedagogy. Her most recent co- authored publication (with Shubhangi Vaidya) is Embodying Motherhood: Perspectives from Contemporary India (2016). She is currently editing a collection on women's and gender studies in India.