Palak Taneja is the faculty of literature and writing at the College of the Atlantic. She teaches an array of courses at COA dealing with postcoloniality, identity, belonging, borders, and culture. One of the popular ones, “The World of Ms. Marvel,” is a writing seminar focusing on the Marvel comic book series Ms. Marvel with Pakistan-American teenager Kamala Khan as its superhero. Her research interests include postcolonial literature and theory and digital humanities, with a particular focus on South Asia. She earned her BA and MA from the University of Delhi and her Ph.D. in English Literature with a graduate certificate in Digital Scholarship and Media Studies from Emory University. In her leisure time, she enjoys reading webtoons and watching soccer with her tuxedo lapcat, Syaah.