Laboni Das Author

Laboni Das was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India. She is currently an independent researcher. Her research interests include literature and medicine, comics studies, graphic medicine, and health humanities. Her research articles have appeared in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, The Comics Grid, Journal of Medical Humanities, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, among others. She is a recipient of the Jawaharlal Nehru Scholarship for Doctoral Studies.

Sathyaraj Venkatesan is Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India. He specializes in health humanities and comics studies, with an emphasis on graphic medicine. He is the author/co-author/editor/co-editor of ten books and over hundred research articles that span African American literature, health humanities graphic medicine, film studies, and other literary and cultural disciplines. His recent co-edited/co-authored books are Pandemics and Epidemics in Cultural Representation (Springer, 2022) and Drawing the Pandemic: COVID-19 and Graphic Medicine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).