Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Article 1:

Is an Explanation a Reason?

Dr Paul Rastall

Paul Rastall studied at Oxford and St. Andrews universities, and taught English and Linguistics at universities in the United Kingdom, Sudan, Japan, and Hong Kong. Before retirement he was a Principal Lecturer at Portsmouth University, UK, and later Visiting Fellow at Hong Kong City University and Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai). Since then he has visited universities in Czech Republic and Algeria as a guest lecturer. He has published extensively on linguistics and linguistic philosophy, and acted as a journal editor. Email: paul.rastall@googlemail.com

Article 2:

Cartographies of Difference: Inventing Difference in Amitav Gosh’s The Shadow Lines

Suravi Roy

Suravi Roy is an Assistant Professor of English in Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, India, where she has been teaching for the last three years. She is pursuing her PhD in theDepartment of English in Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India, fromwhere she was awarded her MPhil degree previously. She graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and completed her Master’s degree from the University of Delhi. Her recent essay was published in the edited volume Popular Narratives: Texts and Contexts (Burdwan: Avenel, 2020). Her research interests include postcolonial theory and literature, popular fiction, and sociology of the body. Email: suravi.roy@skbu.ac.in

Article 3:

Mapping the Motif of the Wandering Jew in Salim Kumar’s Karutha Joothan

Jeslin Mery John

Dr Asha Susan Jacob

Article 4:

Visual Disability and the Pursuit of Normality in Preeti Monga’s Biographical Novel The Other Senses

Kowsalya G

Kowsalya G is a Ph.D. scholar in the Department of English, Bishop Heber College (affiliated to Bharathidasan University), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nādu, India. Her current research area is Disability studies and Life Writing. She did her Bachelor’s in English from Holy Cross College, Tiruchirappalli, and Master’s in English from Bishop Heber College. Her research areas of interest include Postcolonial Studies, Gender and Literature, and Cultural Studies. Email: kowsyguru@gmail.com

Dr Dhanabal C

Dhanabal C is the Dean of the Training and Placement Centre and Associate Professor of English Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nādu, India. He worked as a Lecturer in

English at Rofel Arts and Commerce College, Vapi, Gujarat. Later he joined Bishop Heber College as Assistant Professor in March 2000. He is a recognized Ph.D. guide for Bharathidasan University and has teaching experience of more than twenty years. He has presented papers at international and national conferences and published research papers in various books and journals. Email: cdbishop123@gmail.com

Article 5:

Cultural Expectations and Gendered Roles: Identity Formations in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland

Damini Bhattacharya

Damini Bhattacharya is a Wolfson postgraduate scholar in her first year of PhD in English at the University of Southampton, UK. She is working on challenging accounts that marginalise the role and contribution of women in a particular political revolution in India through a subaltern, feminist, and Indian postcolonial lens. She has completed her BA (Hons) in English from Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta, India, and her MA in English from St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata. She has worked as an instructional designer, designing the curriculum, and creating e-learning courses for diverse global organisations. Through her research, she believes in unearthing narratives about women’s participation in different social, political, cultural and economic situations to empower them globally. Email: d.bhattacharya117@gmail.com

Article 6:

Decipher Symptoms of Asperger Syndrome: Role of Early Intervention in Colin Fisher

Dr Preetha M

Preetha M is currently working as Assistant Professor at Kristu Jayanti College (Autonomous), Bengaluru. She has around four years of teaching experience. Her research areas include Canadian Literature, African American Literature and Indian English Literature. She has presented research papers at National and International Conferences. She has also published articles in reputed books, National and International journals. Email: preetha.m@kristujayanti.com

Article 7: Editor’s Essay

Borges’s Library of Babel: Consciousness Assaults the Universe

Dr Alfonso J. García-Osuna

Alfonso J. García-Osuna, Hofstra University & The City University of New York, has taught at Hofstra University for over thirty years. He specialises in medieval and early modern literature, receiving his PhD (1989) from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He has completed post-doctoral work at the University of Valladolid, Spain, has published six books, and is a frequent contributor to specialised journals. Alfonso received primary and secondary education in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, the place where his family originated and where he grew up. An avid cyclist, he has completed the Road to Santiago, an 867-kilometre route through northern Spain, six times. Email: publications@iafor.org