Ms. Sheryl Alexander earned her master’s degree in English literature from the University of Delhi in 2023, after completing her bachelor’s degree from St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi. In addition, she completed another master’s degree in Migration and Diaspora Studies from Indira Gandhi National Open University in 2025. She has worked as a lecturer in the Department of English at St. Xavier’s College, Jaipur, where she taught undergraduate courses in Romantic and pre-Romantic poetry, Indian writing in English, and foundation English language studies.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of memory studies, migrant diasporas, and minority studies, with published works on literary hauntology, diasporic identities, and cultural memory. She has been a research intern at the Centre for Memory Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. She has also contributed to the Indian Network for Memory Studies, in addition to presenting papers at national and international conferences. Beyond teaching at a university, she has volunteered with Dalit and migrant communities in Jaipur, where she explored inclusive and interactive language pedagogy.
As a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, Sheryl is a primary instructor of Hindi at the University of Kansas. She is also involved in curriculum designing and developing learning resources for the language program. She hopes to utilize her Fulbright experience to foster cross-cultural dialogue by integrating her research insights on literature, memory studies, and diaspora narratives into language instruction to create a holistic learning experience. She aims to enrich her pedagogical practices with intercultural perspectives to bring back to her classroom in India and contribute to building meaningful academic exchange between India and the United States.