Dr Anannya Dasgupta directs the Centre for Writing and Pedagogy at Krea University and is Associate Professor in the Division of Literature and the Arts, SIAS. In her dual role she teaches, develops curriculum and writes in both her areas of interests that took shape during her doctoral work at Rutgers University (New Jersey) where she was also a teaching assistant at the Writing Programme. Since 2012 she has been setting up writing centres at various universities in India, developing writing pedagogies especially in academic writing, and training faculty in teaching writing. Her teaching and research interest in literature are in the areas of the British Renaissance drama, Poetry, and Indian Literature in English. She is also a poet, photographer and artist, and often brings these to bear in her writing and teaching. Some of her publications include an academic monograph: Magical Epistemologies: Forms of Knowledge in Renaissance Drama, a collection of co-edited essays on academic writing: Writing in Academia, a collection of poetry: Between Sure Places, and among other anthologised essays, poetry and short stories, the following essay on Shakespeare’s sonnets and the rhetoric of quarrelling: “Finding Quarrel in a Straw.”