Siddharth Srikanth received a Ph.D. in English from The Ohio State University in 2021. He previously taught at Ohio State and Wake Forest University before joining UNLV. He specializes in global Anglophone literature, particularly the Anglophone literatures of Africa and South Asia, postcolonial studies, narrative theory, and novel theory.

He is currently at work on two projects: the first, Marginal Affinities, examines how global Anglophone writers innovated new forms of literary character as a response to the geopolitical freight of representing the Global South in literary form. His other project, The Literary Afterlives of Anti-Colonial Struggles, focuses on how major male political figures such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Jomo Kenyatta, and Kwame Nkrumah were written about in mid-century books, periodicals, and newspapers, how they wrote about themselves in relation to their nations, and how those writings influence the narrative forms taken by postcolonial and contemporary fictions.