Vivek Gupta (PhD, London) is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London. Gupta’s research and teaching lie at the intersection of Islamic and South Asian art, visual culture, and literature. His fields of philological expertise are Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, and Persian, and his publications frequently include original translations of inscriptions, poetry, and manuscript evidence. His work covers a range of topics including embodied experience, transculturation, the ludic arts, the art of the book, intermediality, intersections between art and science, and the cultures of the Indian Ocean. His first monograph, Worldshaping Wonders: Books and Visual Knowledge in Hindustan, is under contract with Oxford University Press in the British Academy Monographs Series.