Editorial Board
Dr Asima Ranjan Parhi
Professor And Head
Department Of English
Utkal University
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Email: asim.parhi@gmail.com
Bio Note:
Asima Ranjan Parhi is Professor and Head, Department of English at Utkal University, Odisha. He was formerly the Dean, Faculty of Languages, Professor and Head of the Department of English at Rajiv Gandhi Central University, Arunachal Pradesh. Author of a book, Indian English through Newspapers, Parhi has published several research papers in journals like Translation Studies (CIIL), Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), Journal of English and Foreign Languages (EFLU), Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (IIAS, Shimla), International Journal of Multidisciplinary Thought and Journal of Media and Communication Studies. He is an author of a monograph from Sahitya Akademi and has book chapters in publications from Springer, Routledge and Penguin. An Associate of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Parhi pursues an interest in ELT, Translation Studies and Children’s literature. He is fascinated by classic Odia songs, some of which he sings and translates. He was awarded by Sambad Sahitya Ghara, Angul, for his anthology of poems, Of Sons and Fathers from Pakhsighara, Bhubaneswar, which has received rave national and international reviews, is prescribed in UG and PG curricula of universities across Odisha and has been translated into Hindi (Pitaain aur Putronki) by an academic of high repute. His forthcoming publications include an edited anthology on Gopinath Mohanty and Tales from Sarala Mahabharata in prose from Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.
Dr Susmita Roye
Professor
Department of Languages and Literatures
Delaware State University
Email: sroye@desu.edu
Bio Note:
Dr. Susmita Roye is professor of literature at Delaware State University, USA. She has presented and published in her areas of interests and research that include but are not limited to Indian Writing in English, British Raj literature, post/colonial literature and women’s writings. Her publications include Mothering India: Women’s Fiction in English Shaping Cultural History, 1890-1947 (Oxford University Press, 2020), Flora Annie Steel: A Critical Study of an Unconventional Memsahib (University of Alberta Press, 2017), articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as Journal of Commonwealth Literature, English Studies, South Asia Research, Studies in the Humanities, among others, and contributions to numerous scholarly volumes of essays.
Dr Krishna Manavalli
Professor & Chairperson
Department of Studies in English
University of Mysore
Email: manavalli@hotmail.com
Bio Note:
Krishna Manavalli is currently a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Mysore, Karnataka. Krishna is a literary critic and translator who works in both English and Kannada languages. In her long and brilliant academic career in the US and India, she has worked on multiple areas such as contemporary British literature, South Asian writing, postcolonial studies, feminism, cultural studies, and translations. She also taught for many years in the US. Krishna has published internationally in important literary and cultural studies journals such as Comparative Critical Studies (UK), Journal of Contemporary Thought (US & India), Studies in South Asian Film and Media (US), Proud Flesh, African Journal of Culture, and others. She has presented at several major seminars and conferences across the world, including the American Comparative Literature Association & Harvard University, Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching (Texas A & M), and Rocky Mountain MLA (Calgary, Canada). She has given talks at prestigious literary festivals in India like the Jaipur Literary Festival, Dakshin, Times Litfest, Bangalore Literary Festival, Bangalore Poetry Festival, Mysore Literary Festival, Sahitya Akademi Festival of Letters, Unmesha International Festival and others. In addition, Krishna does freelance writing, mainly literary reviews and interviews, for Times of India, Hindu, and Indian Express. Apart from being a member of the English Advisory Board of the Central Sahitya Akademi (New Delhi), she is on many academic and university administrative boards in the State. Her recent publications include the translation of the renowned Kannada writer and Jnanpith Award winner Dr Chandrashekhar Kambar’s novels Karimayi (Seagull, 2017) and Shivana Dangura (Shiva's Drum; Speaking Tiger, 2017). Krishna received the 2017 Karnataka Sahitya Academy award for her translation of Karimayi. Her translation of Kambar’s Rishyashringa and Mahmoud Gawan titled Two Plays was published by Penguin Random House (2020). She has written a monograph on Chandrasekhar Kambar for the National School of Drama (2021) and has just finished translating the novel of the eminent Kannada woman writer Triveni for the Sahitya Akademi (The Puppet). Krishna’s most recent work is the translation of children’s folk tales and the play Pushparani by Kambar (When the Wind God Fell Sick and Other Stories: Rupa, 2023).
Dr Asis De
Associate Professor & Head
Department of English (UG & PG)
Director of Research (Humanities and Social Sciences)
Mahishadal Raj College, Vidyasagar University,
West Bengal, India
Also serving as an Academic Counsellor, DDE, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Email: asisde@mahishadalrajcollege.ac.in
Bio note:
Dr Asis De is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English (UG and PG) and Director of Research (HSS) at Mahishadal Raj College, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. His research interests include Postcolonial Literatures, Diaspora and Migration Studies, Transnationalism in Anglophone South Asian, Caribbean and African Literatures, Family and Kinship Studies, Environmental Humanities, Health Humanities, and Modern Indian History and Culture. Recipient of three research projects from UGC and ICSSR, he has recently been awarded the UGC-IUC Associateship by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (Shimla). Dr De has edited two books and authored more than thirty research papers as book chapters and journal publications. Reviewer and Editorial Board Member of several National and International Journals, he has published with Oxford University Press, Brill, Routledge, Vernon, Lexington, Orient Blackswan, Atlantic, and Rawat. He is a life member of IACLALS and a regular member of EACLALS, MLA, MSA, GAPS, ACLA, and MESEA.
Roshan Lal Sharma
Senior Professor
Department of English
School of Languages
Central University of Himachal Pradesh
Dharamshala, India
Email: roshanlal.sharma@hpcu.ac.in
Bio Note:
Roshan Lal Sharma is a senior professor of English at the Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala. Formerly a Vice Chancellor (In Charge) and Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2007-08), Professor Sharma has co-edited There’s a Spirit in the Woods: Global Perspectives on Literature and Ecology (Palgrave Macmillan 2026), Gendered Spaces and Ruptured Identities (2022), and Mapping Diaspora Identities: India and Beyond (2017) and has authored Raja Rao’s Shorter Fiction (2009) and Walt Whitman (2000). He co-edits MEJO: The MELOW Journal of World Literature and is on the editorial board of Review of International American Studies (RIAS). He has more than a hundred papers and book chapters to his credit, published by reputed publishers such as Routledge, Emerald, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Palgrave MacMillan, CRC Press, IGI, etc.
Dr Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah, PhD
Department of Theatre and Performance Studies
University of Warwick, UK
Non-Resident Research Associate, University of Regina, Canada
Email: Stephen.Okpadah@warwick.ac.uk
Bio Note:
Dr Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He also holds a second PhD in Performing Arts from the Department of Performing and Film Arts, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Okpadah has published over 37 articles in international journals and 25 chapters in books. He is the editor of over four book volumes and guest editor of reputable journals. His most recent edited volume, Performances and Sustainable Climate: Planet, People and Practices, will be published by Vernon Press in 2026. Dr Okpadah’s most recent ethnographic research draws on Theatre for Development in creating community-based performances that advocate for climate justice in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, a location marked with a long history of climate injustice. He won the 2021 Janusz Korczak/UNESCO Prize for Global South in the emerging scholar category. Dr Okpadah is also a UNESCO Janusz Korckzak Fellow, and a non-resident research associate at the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre, University of Regina, Canada. He is also Director of Research, Theatre Emissary, International Nigeria.
Dr Akshaya Kumar
Professor
Department of English and Cultural Studies
Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
Email: akshaya@pu.ac.in
Bio note:
Akshaya Kumar is a Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. His primary areas of research are Comparative Indian Literature, Translation and Cultural Studies. His early books include: A K Ramanujan: In Profile and Fragment (Rawat, 2004); and Poetry, Politics and Culture (Routledge, 2009), selected by World Literature Today as one of the most significant 60 books on modern Indian literature. His well-received co-edited volume is Cultural Studies in India (Routledge, 2016), and some of the essays anthologised in the volume are prescribed in the syllabi of various universities of India. His most recent co-edited books are Popular Culture in South Asian Context (Routledge, 2026) and Voices of Change: Progressive Poetry and Cultural Resistance in India (Springer Nature, 2026). He has co-translated Punjabi Dalit short stories under the title Gangerene (Penguin Random House, 2026). Currently, he is writing A Critical History of Punjabi Literature, a project commissioned by Orient Blackswan. He writes book reviews primarily on poetry and poets for The Tribune, The Book Review, Biblio, The Daily Star (Bangladesh) and Outlook. He is the editor of a Hindi book series on the contemporary critical idiom. He has been the editor of dialog – a refereed journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University for six years.
Dr S. Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş
Associate Professor & Department Chair
Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters
Department of American Culture and Literature
Email: mutluay@hacettepe.edu.tr , bilge.mutluay@gmail.com
Bio Note:
Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş is Chair of the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye, and has served as President of the International American Studies Association (IASA) since 2024. As President of IASA, she is engaged in advancing international and transnational approaches to American Studies and fostering scholarly exchange across national, disciplinary, and regional boundaries. She received her M.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park, and her PhD from Hacettepe University, where she continues to teach and conduct research. Her academic interests include American literature, cultural studies, literary theory and criticism, life writing, graphic narratives, and American folk music. Dr. Mutluay Çetintaş has published extensively in national and international journals and edited volumes on contemporary American literature, historiographic metafiction, life writing, trauma studies, graphic narratives, and cultural criticism. She has served on the editorial and advisory boards of numerous national and international academic journals and has held editorial positions for national and international scholarly periodicals. She is the author of Geçmişin Öyküleri, Öykülerin Geçmişi: Çağdaş Amerikan Romanlarında Tarihin Sorgulanması (The Stories of the Past, the Past of the Stories: Questioning History in Contemporary American Novels). As a Fulbright Scholar, she conducted research on contemporary American women's life writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, during an academic year. Her current research focuses on contemporary American literature, life writing, graphic narratives, cultural memory, and popular culture. She is currently completing a monograph on graphic narratives and history.
Dr Mgr. Pavlina Flajsarova, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of English and American Studies
Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Email: pavlina.flajsarova@upol.cz
Bio Note:
Pavlína Flajšarová, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. In 1999–2000, she was a Fulbright visiting researcher at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She has published four scholarly monographs, The Bridge and the Eclipse: Metaphor in The Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Palacký University Press, 2004), Poetry in Great Britain and Northern Ireland after 1945 (Uniprint, 2007), Diaspora in the Fiction of Andrea Levy (Palacký University Press, 2014), and Grace Nichols Universal and Diverse: Ethnicity in the Poetry and Fiction of Grace Nichols (Palacký University Press, 2016). Furthermore, she has presented many papers on anglophone poetry and fiction at international conferences, has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, and contributed several entries to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry (Greenwood Press, 2005). Recently, she co-authored three monographs on Scottish contemporary fiction and a volume of Canadian literary history, all by Palacký University Press. Her current scholarly interest is British ethnic and diasporic literature. Currently, she has co-edited and co-authored a three-volume collective monograph, Suburbia Reconsidered (3 vols.)
Dr Neelam F. Pirbhai
Head of Department
Centre for Digital Humanities
Université des Mascareignes, Mauritius
Email Address: npirbhai@udm.ac.mu
Bio Note:
Neelam F. Pirbhai holds a PhD in French and Francophone Languages and Literatures and specialises in Mauritian culture and literature through an interdisciplinary approach. Her research focuses on integrating digital tools, programming, and generative artificial intelligence into language and literature studies. In 2019, she founded the Centre for Digital Humanities at the Université des Mascareignes (Mauritius), where she promotes research, pedagogical innovation, and the development of Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in digital humanities through national and international collaborations.
