Palak Taneja is a Graduate Advisor with the National Scholarship and Fellowships Program and a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Emory. Her research interests include postcolonial literature and theory, digital humanities, with a particular focus on South Asia. She is currently working on finishing her dissertation titled “Material Memory and the Partition” that draws on the object-memory interactions in the Partition Literature of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.She has been with the National Scholarships and Fellowships Program since Fall 2020.