Megnaa Mehtta is an assistant professor in social anthropology at UCL, London. Her research explores human-environment relations, migration, mythology, everyday risks, and notions of sufficiency and excess within contexts of longstanding economic vulnerability. Her writings have appeared in Current Anthropology, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Her first book manuscript Conserving Life: Political Imaginaries from a Submerging Forest is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Sundarbans forests straddling India and Bangladesh. Her next research project "The Banglascapes of Venice" examines the lives of Bangladeshi immigrants across the intertwined land-waterscapes of the Bengal Delta and the Venice lagoon.