Erasing Barricades: Woman in Indian Literature

Author of Calculus of Power: Modern American Political Novel (1997), Nibir K. Ghosh is a Reader in the Department of English Studies and Research at Agra College, Agra. An eminent scholar and critic of American, British and Postcolonial literatures, he has published widely on various political, socio-cultural and feminist issues in prestigious journals. He has edited two poetry anthologies: Poetic Miscellany and Spectrum of Poetic Sensibility. A Ph.D. and D.Litt. in English from Agra University, he also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in the Teaching of English from the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad. He has delivered over 50 Radio Talks on wide ranging topics and lectured on American and South Asian literatures at many campuses in India and the United States. As a Senior Fulbright Fellow (2003-04) at the University of Washington, Seattle, he worked on "Recent Trends in African American Writings with Special Reference to the Fiction of Charles Johnson." An Associate of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, he is the Chief Editor of Re-Markings, a biannual journal of research in English.