Sonal Rana is a PhD student in English at Rutgers University. She completed her bachelor’s and master’s in English from Ashoka University, India. Her master’s thesis traces the transfer mechanisms of transgenerational trauma in Henry James’ fiction. At Rutgers, she is interested in charting the impact of Henry James’ writing in the fiction of two Post-partition Indian authors, Krishna Baldev Vaid and Nirmal Verma—both of whom borrow and modify James’ stylistic techniques to fashion an everyday language of psychological abrasion.