Shehnaz Kabir Editor

Shubhanku Kochar teaches at the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He specializes in African Literatures in English and Eco-Criticism. His latest publications are Environmental Post-Colonialism: A Literary Response (2021, Lexington Books), Literature from the Peripheries: Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism (2023, Lexington Books), Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral: Representation of City and Village in Literature (2024, Ibidem/ Columbia University Press. His forthcoming books are: Beyond the Ocean: Literature History and the British Empire, and Poverty and Pollution: Environmental Casteism and Dalit Literature, both to be published by Springer. His poems have been published in Protagonist, a famous literary magazine.

Shehnaz Kabir has been awarded with a doctorate degree by the Department of English at Jadavpur University. Her latest publications include “Negotiating Identities in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora: Queer Bildungsroman and Gendered Spaces in Select Novels of Shani Mootoo” (The IACLALS Journal, 2020) and “Commodification of Identity: Dissecting the Coolie Body in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora” (New Literaria, 2021). Her paper, “Gendered Negotiations and Role of Female Agency in Select Indo-Caribbean Fiction” is to be published in Springer. Her areas of interest include hydro-colonialism, indenture trade, diaspora literature, material cultures, and postcolonial studies.