Saptam Patel has been with the BCom programme as a faculty in the area of Communication since 1999. She graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad and did post-graduation, M. Phil as well as Phd. from the School of Languages, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. She has been teaching courses on Business Communication, Art of Persuasion and Gender since seventeen years. Her area of research is multidiciplinary in nature as she has been working on Literature in English, Gender, Fine Arts and Women's Writing and she has published/presented and participated in various international and national conferences and seminars.   
She did her Fine Arts study at Sheth C N College of Fine Arts. She has been a member of a group of women artists called ‘Expressive Eight’ and exhibited at Jehangir Art Gallery-Mumbai, Rabindra Bhavan-Delhi, Ravishankar Raval Kala Bhavan, Marvel Art Gallery, Hutheesingh Visual Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery – Ahmedabad, Chandigarh as well as at the International fronts. She has participated in almost twenty national and inter-national group shows of paintings, prints and photographs.