Faridoun Farrokh was born and educated in Iran where he began a teaching career, initially in schools and later at the universities in Shiraz and Mashhad, his hometown, after completing graduate studies in the U.S. Currently, he is a professor of English at Texas A&M International University, where he has taught for the past sixteen years. His academic specialty and research interests are in the eighteenth-century English literature and contemporary Iranian fiction as well as literary translation.
Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian who taught at Miranda House, University of Delhi, from where she took early retirement in 1998. She has been associated with the women’s movement and the move
Horace Bancroft Davis was trained as a labour economist at Harvard and Columbia, and taught social science at many different institutions of higher education in the United States. He worked as a la
Ishwar Dayal Gaur is Professor of History at the Multi-Disciplinary Research Centre, Department of Evening Studies, Punjab University, Chandigarh. His research pertains to Panjab history, culture,
Tahira Naqvi is a translator, writer, and Urdu language lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. She has translated the works of Sa'dat Hasan Manto,
