Dr. Nishi Pulugurtha is Associate
Professor in the department of English, Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College
(affiliated to the West Bengal State University). She earned her Ph.D degree
from the University of Calcutta on Coleridge’s poetry with special reference to
the Conversation and the Supernatural Poems. Her post doctoral work dealt with
the effect of English on the intellectual life of Bengal and on poetry written
in English by Bengalis in the nineteenth century (UGC Minor Research Project).
She has been working on a project on the literature of the Indian diaspora in
the United States of America and has been awarded an Associateship at the
Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India. She is now working on a
project on Telugu cinema. Dr. Pulugurtha has published a monograph on Henry
Louis Vivian Derozio. Her areas of interest are British Romantic literature,
Postcolonial literature, Indian writing in English, the literature of the
diaspora, and Indian cinema. She has published extensively on these areas and
also writes on travel.