Sreedhevi Iyer is a writer/academic with RMIT University. Her research interest focuses on the narrowing parameters of free speech in literary discourse as a result of paradoxical ideas around social media and identity politics. Her forthcoming monograph from Routledge examines how authors use language to perform a preconceived 'authentic' self, and how the discourse determines their use. She is also the author of a novel, 'The Tiniest House of Time'.