Samanta, Soumyajit
Soumyajit Samanta, Ph.D., is a former professor of English of the University of North Bengal (in the district of Darjeeling, West Bengal, India). Educated at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, and Jadavpur University, Samanta’s publications include Lovescape Crucified: A Study of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Sarup and Sons, 2005) and James Joyce: A Study of his Novels, Poetry, and Plays (Atlantic Publishers, 2014). He had been to the University of Lund, Sweden, in 2008 and 2010 on fellowships.
Sen, Amrit
Amrit Sen, Ph.D., is a professor at the Department of English, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati (Santiniketan, West Bengal, India), and is, presently, the Director of Granthan Vibhaga (the publishing-section) of Visva-Bharati at Kolkata. A recipient of several awards and accolades, including those from the Government of India and the U.G.C., Sen has authored/co-authored 13 books till date, and has published numerous essays and articles in reputed international and national journals. He had been at the University of Edinburgh as Fellow of a UKIERI-programme, and travels all around the world, lecturing at different international conferences, and teaching at numerous universities. Indian diasporic writings, Rabindranath Tagore’s literature, and 18th century English literature are on the list of his research-interests.
Mukherjee, Rupayan
Rupayan Mukherjee, Ph.D., lectures English at University B.T. and Evening College, Cooch Behar (West Bengal, India). He is the co-editor of Partition Literature and Cinema: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2020) and Popular Literature: Texts, Contexts, Contestations (Ibidem/Columbia University Press, 2022).
Samajdar, Saunak
Saunak Samajdar, Ph.D., is an associate professor of the Department of English, Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India. A J.N.U.-alumnus, a movie-buff, and deeply interested in diasporic writings, Samajdar – who resides in Siliguri – is a ‘globetrotter’ by choice, and has spoken at numerous international and national-level conferences and seminars on areas like visual semiotics and literary and critical theories. His publications have been appreciated globally.
Sarkar, Jaydip
Jaydip Sarkar, Ph.D., is associate professor of English at University B.T. and Evening College, Cooch Behar, a constituent college of University of North Bengal (in the district of Darjeeling, West Bengal, India). Deeply interested in diasporic writings, he has edited and co-edited such books as Writing Difference: Nationalism, Identity and Literature (Atlantic, 2013), A Handbook of Rhetoric and Prosody (Orient Blackswan, 2018), Partition Literature and Cinema: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2020), and Popular Literature: Text, Context, Contestation (Ibidem/Columbia University Press, 2021). He has attended several national and international conferences in India and abroad.
Swarnakar, Neha
Neha Swarnakar, M.Phil, teaches English at Sripat Singh College (Jiaganj, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India), and researches at the Department of English, Raiganj University. She has completed her B.A. and M.A from Kalyani University. She has several articles, including those on diasporic writings, to her credit. Her area of interest encompasses resistance literature, new gender studies, and war-literature.
Mallick, Saptarshi,
Saptarshi Mallick, Ph.D., works as an assistant professor of English at Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri, West Bengal, India (which is a constituent college of the University of North Bengal). In 2016-17 he has been a Charles Wallace India Trust (Doctoral) Fellow in the U.K. He was an Associate Staff (Research Fellow) at the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs), Edinburgh Napier University, as part of the UKIERI Programme. He is an Ernst Mach Fellow 2019-20 (postdoctoral) at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria. He has been visiting faculty in the Summer Semester of 2020 at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. He is an Associate Editor of Gitanjali and Beyond, an international, open-access e-journal of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs).
Dubey, Lata
Lata Dubey, Ph.D., is professor in the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Her areas of interest include diasporic writings, British fiction, Victoria poetry, linguistics, contemporary fiction, Indian Literatures in English, feminism, contemporary theory, New Literatures in English, narratology. She has published more than two dozen research papers in different international and nationally-circulated journals, and has lectured at several conferences, seminars, and U.G.C.-H.R.D.C. Refresher Courses as resource person.
Arora, Neha
Neha Arora, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of English of the Central University of Rajasthan (in the district of Ajmer, Rajasthan). Her areas of interest include diasporic writings, Dalit-literature, comparative literature, Indian writings, and subaltern-studies. She has authored Dalit Literature Today (Creative Books, 2015), and has edited/co-edited three critical-anthologies – on New Literature, Mahesh Dattani’s plays, and marginalised literature. She has also contributed several research papers in reputed journals and edited volumes.
Bandyopadhyay, Deb Narayan
Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D., is the Vice-Chancellor of Bankura University, West Bengal, India. In 2001, he gave a course of lectures on ‘Nineteenth-century Representations of Shakespeare in India’ at the University of Vienna, Shakespeare Society of Vienna, and the University of Salzburg. He also visited the University of Edinburgh and lectured at a seminar organised at Mansfield College, Oxford in 2002, with assistance from British Council. He was awarded the Fulbright Exchange Summer Institute Programme and worked at Northern Illinois University, University of Chicago, and State University of New York. He was, later, awarded Australian Studies Fellowship in 2005 and 2006. He had held visiting research positions at Monash University, University of New South Wales, University of Wollongong, and holds the position of international contributing editor of Journal of American History (J.A.H). Bandyopadhyay has worked on Gerontology as the Project Leader in collaboration with University of Swansea under UKIERI-Funding-Programme, and is an awardee of the Andrew Tannahill Fund, University of Glasgow. His most recent publication includes Transnational Spaces: Australia and India (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Fraser, Bashabi
Dr. Bashabi Fraser, C.B.E. is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University (Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.) and an internationally-recognised Indian Diasporic Poet.
Samanta, Subhrajit
Subhrajit Samanta, M.A. – with degrees in both Mass Communication and English – has pursued adventurous and challenging news stories, covering a range of beats as a full-time general assignment reporter for The Statesman, Siliguri. His publications include Shakuntala and the Natural Sublime: Representations in Literature and Media (2019), Psychological Horror in ‘Red Dragon’ and ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ (2022), and The Mystique of Tibetan Mysticism: An Analysis of Herge’s ‘Tintin in Tibet’ (2022).
Singh, Lalan Kishore
Lalan Kishore Singh, Ph.D., is professor of English at Gauhati University, Assam, India. He has worked extensively on literary theory and criticism, history and historicism, and ecology and literature. He has also an abiding interest in studying diasporic writings, the historical intersections between historical experience, the Second World War, nationalism, and local cultures of Northeast India.
Pinaki, Roy
Dr. Pinaki Roy (born 1980) studied English at Visva-Bharati (Santiniketan, West Bengal, India) and University of North Bengal (Shibmandir, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India). Since 2019, he is Professor of English (and Dean of Students’ Welfare) at the RAIGANJ UNIVERSITY in Raiganj (West Bengal, India).
His previous books include THE BROKEN PENS: THE (INDIAN) PARTITION IN LITERATURE AND FILMS (Aadi, 2015), WILFRED OWEN: THE MAN, THE SOLDIER, THE POET (Books Way, 2013), THE SCARLET CRITIQUE: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY OF WAR POETRY (Sarup, 2010), and THE MANICHEAN INVESTIGATORS: A POSTCOLONIAL AND CULTURAL REREADING OF THE SHERLOCK HOLMES AND BYOMKESH BAKSHI STORIES (Sarup, 2008), and 3 others. His papers have been published by, among other outlets, CLUES, W.L.A., MUSE INDIA, ENGLISH FORUM, VISVA-BHARATI QUARTERLY, and YEARLY SHAKESPEARE.
Munshi, Auritra
Munshi, Auritra, Ph.D., works as an assistant professor at the Department of English, Raiganj University, West Bengal, India. He is a co-editor of the book titled Border and Bordering: Politics, Poetics Precariousness (Ibidem/Columbia University Press, 2021). He has published many articles in international and national journals such as Indialogs: Spanish Journal Of India Studies, Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Muse India, Journal of the Department of English: Vidyasagar University, Journal of Bodoland University, and others. His interest includes South Asian diaspora, Coolie diaspora, postcolonialism, and subaltern studies.
Chattopadhyay, Indrajit
Indrajit Chattopadhyay, Ph.D., is an associate professor of English of Kabi Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Hooghly, West Bengal, India. Educated at the Universities of Calcutta and Kalyani, Chattopadhyay has been an academic-counsellor for Post-Graduate course of English Language and Literature of Indira Gandhi National Open University. His most recent publication is Of Woman Born: Changing Interpretations of Womanhood in Shakespearean Comedies (Signorina, 2020). His present areas of interest are diasporic literature, cultural studies, and hunting literature.
Dutta, Tanima
Tanima Dutta, Ph.D., works as an assistant professor at the Department of English, Buniadpur Mahavidyalaya (Dakshin Dinajpur, West Bengal, India), and edits a reputed multidisciplinary journal, Exposure. An activist and a recognised performer, she has spoken at different international and national-level conferences and seminars, and has a number of critically-acclaimed research-publications to her credit. Her doctoral research thesis was highly-appreciated at the University of Heidelberg. Dutta is presently co-editing an anthology of critical writings on posthumanism, likely to be published from a reputed eastern U.S.A.-based publishing house.
Dr. Pinaki Roy (born 1980) studied English at Visva-Bharati (Santiniketan, West Bengal, India) and University of North Bengal (Shibmandir, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India). Since 2019, he is Professor of English (and Dean of Students’ Welfare) at the RAIGANJ UNIVERSITY in Raiganj (West Bengal, India).
His previous books include THE BROKEN PENS: THE (INDIAN) PARTITION IN LITERATURE AND FILMS (Aadi, 2015), WILFRED OWEN: THE MAN, THE SOLDIER, THE POET (Books Way, 2013), THE SCARLET CRITIQUE: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY OF WAR POETRY (Sarup, 2010), and THE MANICHEAN INVESTIGATORS: A POSTCOLONIAL AND CULTURAL REREADING OF THE SHERLOCK HOLMES AND BYOMKESH BAKSHI STORIES (Sarup, 2008), and 3 others. His papers have been published by, among other outlets, CLUES, W.L.A., MUSE INDIA, ENGLISH FORUM, VISVA-BHARATI QUARTERLY, and YEARLY SHAKESPEARE.
