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Siddharth Soni is a Lecturer in Literature and Digital Culture at the University of Southampton. He has a robust research background that focuses on literary digital cultures of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly related to colonialism and racial capitalism. Soni completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Cambridge, which examined the short story form in India as part of the fragmented and networked literary culture, contributing to critical debates in postcolonial studies. His postdoctoral work shifted towards the study of colonial recordkeeping practices, which has become the basis for his current book project entitled 'Monstrous Archives', for which he was awarded the £25,000 Ideas Prize in 2023, published by Profile Books. His research has been featured in various journals and he has taught a wide array of courses, including 'Worlding English Literature', 'The Novel', and 'Literary Experiments', engaging with students on topics spanning nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture, the rise of fictionality, and critical approaches to the study of archives.