Dr. Subhadeep Paul

Dr. Subhadeep Paul is presently Assistant Professor, Department of English, School of Literature, Language and Cultural Studies, Bankura University, West Bengal. He has previously taught at the P.G. Department of English, Maulana Azad (Govt.) College, Kolkata. He was Co-Director of a Two-Year Major Research Project (2016-18) entitled “Discoursing the Homeless Elderly: Tropes, Desires, Containment” (funded by the I.C.S.S.R., in collaboration with The University of Swansea, UK). He has co-edited Anxieties, Influences & After: Critical Responses to Postcolonialism & Neocolonialism (Worldview Publishers, in association with Wimbledon Press, UK, 2009) and authored Finite Sketches, Infinite Reaches (Writers Workshop, Kolkata, 2009). His forthcoming co-edited volume Beyond the Heteronorm: Interrogating Critical Alterities has been endorsed by Lexington Books Rowman & Littlefield.

Dr. Arka Chattopadhyay

Arka Chattopadhyay is assistant professor of literary studies and philosophy in the department of Humanities and Social ciences at IIT Gandhinagar, India. He is a B.A., M.A., MPhil in English Literature, from Presidency College and Jadavpur University, India. He has written his MPHIL thesis on Samuel Beckett and Alain Badiou and finished his PHD from Western Sydney University on Beckett and Lacanian Psychoanalysis with a Dean’s Thesis Prize. He has been published in books like Deleuze and Beckett, Knots: Post-Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film, Gerald Murnane: Another World in this One etc., and journals such as Textual Practice, Interventions, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Sound Studies and The Harold Pinter Review. He has co-edited the book, Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature and has guest-edited the SBT/A issue on Samuel Beckett and the Extensions of the Mind. Arka is the founding editor of the online literary journal Sanglap (http://sanglap-journal.in/) and a contributing editor to Harold Pinter Review. His first monograph, Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real has been published by Bloomsbury Academic UK in 2019. He has recently co-edited a volume on Nabarun Bhattacharya for Bloomsbury India in 2020 and is working on a monograph on Posthumanism, contracted by Orient Blackswan and two edited volumes on Affective Ecologies and Badiou and Modernism. He has won MLA and ACLA travel grants and successfully organised national and international conferences in India and Australia.

Dr. Mukulika Dattagupta

Dr. Mukulika Dattagupta is currentlyworking as an Associate Professor inthe department of English Languageand Literature of School of LiberalArts and Culture Studies at AdamasUniversity, Barasat. She has beenteaching since 2006 in severalcapacities at Jadavpur University andat Adamas University. She hascompleted her B.A., M.A. and Ph.Dfrom the department of ComparativeLiterature at Jadavpur UniversityKolkata. She has also worked as ayouth volunteer in a collaborativeproject of UNICEF and the School ofMedia Communication and Culture,Jadavpur University. She was hostedby the University of South Carolina,Aiken, USA as a Fulbright-NehruDoctoral Research Fellow, 2014-15.She has delivered quite a number ofinvited class lectures at theUniversity of South Carolina, Aiken,USA, and The Appalachian StateUniversity, USA and at JadavpurUniversity, Kolkata. Her researchinterests are in African Americanliterature and children’s literature.Currently she is working on travelwriting as well.