Pramod K Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His work in postcolonial studies includes "English Writing and India, 1600 1920: Colonizing Aesthetics "(2008), "Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction "(2008), "The Great Uprising: India, 1857 "(2007), "The Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar "(2007) and "The Penguin 1857 Reader "(2007). His interests in cultural studies include superheroes, consumer culture, cool, posthumanism and new media cultures, and his work here includes "An Introduction to Cultural Studies "(2008), "Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics...