M.Adamu Pangmeshiis a lecturer at the Higher Teachers’ Training College, Maroua, University of Maroua, Cameroon. He holds a DIPES II in Education from the University of Yaounde I – Cameroon, where he is currently awaiting his Ph.D defence by the end of august 2009 in the area of post colonial Studies. He has presented papers at post graduate, national and international conferences on such themes as language, literature and identity, language, literature and education . He teaches postcolonial studies, literary theory and criticism, gender studies, the techniques of teaching literature and research methodology at the University of Maroua. Email: pangmeshi@yahoo.com
Anne Mabry is Associate Professor, ESL Program, New Jersey City University. She is Coordinator of ESL Program and had been Director, Honors Program at New Jersey City University. Dr. Mabry holds an Ed .D. in TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University; her dissertation focused on the communication and learning strategies of learners of English as a second language. She has presented at national and state conferences on such topics as communication strategies, classroom use of the Internet, and technology-related issues. She directed three Ethnolinguistic Minority Student (ELMS) grants, funded by the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education. Her teaching interests are the use of literature in the classroom as a way to foster critical thinking, and the research writing process. She is conversant in Mandarin. E-mail: amabry@njcu.edu
Basudeb Chakraborti is Professor of English and formerly Head, Department of English, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Commerce, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India. He received his doctorate in English on Thomas Hardy from the University of Kalyani, 1996. Prof. Chakraborti did M. Phil in English from Nagpur University in 1983. He holds double M.A degree—M.A in English with Specialization in English Language from Calcutta University in1970, and M.A. in English from the University of Houstonat Clear Lake City, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. in 1980. Vastly experienced as a teacher with 33 years of experience, he has been interested in varied areas— Phonetics and Phonology of English, Linguistics, ELT, 19th Century English Literature, Indian Writings in English, Translation Studies etc. He has participated in many national and international seminars and workshops. He also directed the production of Tagore’s play Sacrifice. Among many of his publications, Thomas Hardy’s View of Happiness: A study of his major novels and short stories, Some Problems of Translation: A Study of Tagore’s Red Oleanders, Indian Partition Fiction in English and in English Translation: A Text on Hindu-Muslim Relationship, Thomas Hardy’s Predicament in Industrial Englandmay be mentioned. He has been actively involved in research activities as a supervisor and adjudicator as well for Ph. D and M. Phil courses. E-mail:basudeb_c@rediffmail.com
Biswaranjan Chattapadhyay is Lecturer, Department of English, Serampore College. The college is affiliated to The University of Calcutta. He is an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Calcutta. He has Bachelor’s degree in Education from the same university. He was awarded with Junior Research Fellowship from the University Grants Commission of India. At present, he is pursuing his Ph.D degree from The University of Kalyani. His area of specialization is Latin American Literature. He has working knowledge in Spanish. Email: biswaranjan.chattapadhyay@gmail.com
Mukesh Modi is Head, Department of English, D. M. Patel Arts and S. S. Patel Commerce College, Ode. (Anand) Gujarat, India. E-mail:mukeshmodiin@yahoo.co.in
Paras Dhir is Lecturer in English and Coordinator, Department of English, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. He completed M. Phil. from Ch. Devi Lal University, Sirsa in 2007 with the dissertation ‘The Treatment of History and Politics in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Shashi Tharoor’s Riot’.He also works as Councellor and Teaching Assistant, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Study Centre A. S. College, Khanna. He has also presented papers in a number of national and international seminars in India. Email: parasdheer22@gmail.com.
Saddik M. Gouhar is Associate Professor, Department of English, United Arab Emirates University. Prior to joining the institution he taught in Ain Shams University, Mansoura University, King Abdul-Aziz University in various posts. He did M.A (English Language) from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A in 1986 and received his PhD in English Literature and Criticism from the same university in 1991. He has written extensively on contemporary Arabic, English and American literary traditions with the special aim of illustrating the fact that on top of cultural and religious differences, there can be found unifying threads between the Arabic and western cultural and artistic traditions. He has published seven books and many articles in international journals on wide ranging areas. He has also participated in many international conferences in the USA, UK, Turkey, Russia, Greece, Brazil, Oman, Jordon, New Zealand, Greece and UAE. He is a referee of African-American Review and Sharjah University Journal of Humanities. He also takes deep interest in the use of modern technology for teaching literature and the English language. For his excellence in teaching, he has been thrice awarded by the UAE University. Email: s.gohor@uaeu.ac.ae
Srdjan Jovanović is a doctoral candidate at the Department of History, Philosophical Faculty of the Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. He did Master of Arts in Euroculture from Palacky University Olomouc in 2008 and Diploma in Scandinavian languages and literatures from the University of Belgrade in 2006. He received REVACERN grant (funded by the European Commission) Ålsta Folkhögskola, Fränsta, Sweden (Swedish Institute). He has worked as columnist for Danas (Belgrade daily) and published articles in The Prague Post and worked as a journalist for Rock Express monthly. He is Editor-in-chief atHumanicus, (www.humanicus.org) an academic journal of social sciences and philosophy. He is conversant in English, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish, Czech. E-mail: srdjan.j@humanicus.org
