Shormishtha Panja is a Professor of English, University of Delhi. She was till recently Head, Department of English and Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi. She is the President of the Shakespeare Society of India. She has taught at Stanford University. Her publications include Many Indias, Many Literatures: New Critical Essays (1999, Second edition 2001, reprinted 2004), Critical Theory Textual Application (2002) Signifying the Self: Women and Literature (2004, reprinted 2007). She has published numerous essays on Renaissance studies, gender studies, literature and the visual arts and Indian literature in international journals and collections. She is the founder member of PEHEL: Delhi University Women’s Support Group.
Shirshendu Chakrabarti is a Professor of English at the University of Delhi. He was an Inlaks Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford and has a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. His interests lie in English literature from the Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century; European intellectual history, literature and the visual arts; Modern English poetry; Modern Bengali literature; Translation. And he has published on Jonathan Swift, Montaigne, George Herbert, Shelley, T.S. Eliot, Tagore. Tagore translations for the Oxford Tagore. Two volumes of poetry in Bangla from Ananda Publishers. Annotated edition of
Congreve’s The Way of the World, Orient Blackswan.
Christel Devadawson, Reader in the Department of English, University of Delhi, was a Cambridge Nehru Scholar for her Ph. D. She has studied and taught at St Stephen’s College where she went on to head the English Department. As Westcott Memorial Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, she has lectured at the universities of Cambridge, Birmingham, Leicester and Warwick. Her writings include Reading India, Writing England: The Fiction of Rudyard Kipling and E. M. Forster, edited versions A Passage to India, Jane Eyre and (with G K Das) a collection of critical essays on A Passage to India. She has just directed a film on the history of South Campus, Delhi University.