Dr. Meena T Pillai is Associate Professor at the Institute of English, University of Kerala and also the Director, Centre for Cultural Studies at University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. She had also edited a book called Women in Malayalam Cinema: Naturalising Gender Hierarchies.
Dr. Meena did her M.A in English Language and Literature from St. Berchamans' college, Mahatma Gandhi University with First Class and First Rank in 1990. Her doctoral thesis was on "The Gothic Tradition in Post-War American Fiction" from the University of Kerala in 1998 with Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship at the Ohio State University, Columbus, U.S.A. Also, she pursued her post-doctoral research at Department of Media Studies, University of Sussex, U.K with Commonwealth Fellowship and with Sasthri Fellowship at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.