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• Ms. Deepika Teckchandani is a lecturer of Spanish at Centre for Foreign Languages, OEFL. She is currently pursuing PhD in Hispanic Studies from the Department of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of Delhi, India. Her research focuses on comic strips, verbal humor and irony and Latin American popular culture. She has also done an M. Phil and Masters from the University of Delhi. She has over ten years of experience in teaching Spanish language and culture to undergraduates at the University of Delhi. She has presented her research work at international conferences in Spain, Berlin, and Delhi. She was awarded the University gold medal for being the best candidate in B.A. (Hons.) & M.A. examination in Hispanic Studies. In 2011, she also qualified for the Junior Research Fellowship grant of UGC. She was recipient of a scholarship from International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Between Spaces” of FU-Berlin in 2013. Her paper on comic strips has been published in Praxis International Journal of Social Science and Literature.