Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral: Representation of City and Village in Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783838219042)

Dr. Shubhanku Kochar is currently working as an Assistant Professor at University School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He has been teaching since 2012. His areas of interest include African and African Diasporic Literature along with Ecological literary criticism. He is also a member of MELOW, the society for Multi Ethnic Literatures of the World and IACLALS known as Indian Association of Commonwealth Literatures and Language studies. He has written a novel titled Everything Will Be Alright, and his other publications include Treatment of Violence: A Reading of Toni Morrison's Selected Fiction and An Eco-critical Reading of Alice Walker's Selected Works, both published by Lambert Academic Publishers of Germany. He has also published nineteen research papers in national and international journals. He has also presented various research papers at national and international conferences. He has contributed book chapters for publishers like Lexington Press, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, Vernon Press, Maria Grzegorzewska University Press, Routledge, and Cambridge Scholars Publishing. He has published his latest book Environmental Post-Colonialism: A Literary Response 2021 with Lexington Press, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, which can be accessed at the following link, https: //rowman.com/ISBN/9781793634566/Environmental- Postcolonialism-A-Literary-Response

Dr. Neepa Sarkar worked as Assistant Professor and PG Coordinator in the Department of English at Mount Carmel College (Autonomous), Bangalore. She has more than a decade of teaching experience. Her areas of interest include Contemporary Critical Theory, Culture and Gender Studies, Film Studies, Memory Studies, Children's Literature, Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction Writing, Science Fiction and Creative Writing. She has published many research papers in both national and international journals and has presented and chaired sessions at various national and international conferences. She has delivered invited lectures and acted as resource person for colleges and universities. She has published poetry in anthologies and journals. She was a member of the executive council at MELOW (2018-2022) and has also won the Issac Sequiera Memorial Award in 2018. She has also served as Board of Studies Member for various colleges and universities.