Subsequent to her graduation from St. Xaviers College, Mumbai, Dr. Maya Dodd completed an M.A. from the University of Florida, and received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Modern Thought and Literature. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation entitled "Archives of Democracy" has been presented internationally at several conferences. Dr. Dodd received a post-doctoral research fellowship in South Asian studies from Princeton University, USA.

In addition to researching the political imagination of postcolonial culture, she most recently taught South Asian studies in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. After more than nine years of teaching in U.S.A, she has returned to teach in India and is currently at work on a book-length manuscript due for publication soon. Dr. Maya Dodd has also been on-air radio host and producer of shows.