The book discussion will commence on 30 September 2024 (Tuesday) at 5:00 PM IST on zoom.  Please register for the zoom link.

About the Co-editors

Dr. Subhadeep Ray, PhD (English), is an Associate Professor of the Department of English of Bidhan Chandra College, Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal, India. Working on Bengali and English modernist fiction within the framework of Comparative literature, Ray’s multiple essays have been regularly included in the volumes of the series, Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, published by Columbia University Press, New York and Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press, Lublin, and in a number of internationally acclaimed journals and theoretical volumes. He is presently editing Conrad in India for the above-mentioned Columbia UP-UMCS Joseph Conrad Project, and also River Fiction of India: Intersectional Flows of Narratives, Geographies and Histories, to be included in the book series, South Asian Literature in Focus, published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group). Ray studies different aspects of modernism, poscolonialism, comparative literature, and literary-genres. Modernist Transitions: Cultural Encounters between British and Bangla Modernist Fiction from 1910s to 1950s is Ray’s first major editorial project.

Dr. Goutam Karmakar works at the Faculty of Arts and Design, Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship and a three-year CHS Postdoctoral Research Position at the Department of English Studies, University of South Africa, South Africa. Previously, he worked at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa as a National Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow and as a visiting scholar at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. Dr. Karmakar is also an assistant professor of English at Barabazar Bikram Tudu Memorial College, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, West Bengal, India.

About the Discussant: Dr. Gargi Talapatra is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, The Bhawanipur Education Society College. She is also the honorary Chief Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature (Revised Version), Sahitya Akademi and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Indenture Papers – an interdisciplinary e-journal published by Global Girmit Institute, Fiji.

About the Chair: Prof. Banibrata Mahanta is a Professor of English at Banaras Hindu University, India. His research interests include Indian writing in English, disability studies, and translation. Among his recent publications are the edited volume English Studies in India: Contemporary and Evolving Paradigms (Springer, 2019) and the forthcoming Evolving Perspectives in English Studies: Views from Northeast India and Beyond. His latest work is an English translation of the Hindi novel Lavanyadevi (Orient Blackswan, 2024), for which he received the prestigious PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America in 2021.