Alison J. Klein is a Lecturer in International Writing at Duke University, where she is currently teaching a class on podcasts. Alison earned a Ph.D. in English literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her book manuscript, Seductive Hierarchies, under contract with Palgrave Macmillan, is an exploration of gender roles in the literature of Caribbean indenture. Her work has been published in the anthology Indo-Caribbean Feminisms and the journals Anthurium, South Asian Review, and The Journal of Commonwealth Literatures.