Madeeha Ahmad is an independent researcher. She has completed her Masters in English Literature from Aligarh Muslim University and has been awarded Gold Medal in the same. She has participated in national and international conferences. Apart from this, her academic training in the Winter School at IIT Delhi and a certificate course at IIT Bhiliai has helped her develop an interdisciplinary approach in her research. Her academic interest lies at the junction of psychoanalysis, trauma studies and contemporary literary fiction with a focus on how narratives preserve and mediate individual reality.