Islands in Literature: A Study of the Spectrum of Evolving Discourses in Island Literature Across Lands and Ages

Rama Kundu is a full Professor of English. She has been teaching in the Postgraduate Department of English, Burdwan University, West Bengal since 1976. She is the author of three books: Vision and Design in Hardy’s Fiction, Westling With God: Studies in English Devotional Poetry, and a Bengali Book Anandamath O Sampradaikta on Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay. She has also edited an anthology of research papers on Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World, and a collection of essays on Thomas Hardy, in addition to translating a Volume of poems into English – On the Revolving Stage. She has written a large number of research papers (102); these were published in scholarly journals and anthologies in India and abroad. Professor Kundu has participated and chaired sessions in a large number of National and International Seminars and Conferences including six stints in Europe.