Banibrata Mahanta teaches English Literature at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His areas of interest are Contemporary Theory, Visual Culture, Linguistics and ELT. His publications include Joseph Conrad: The Gothic Imagination and Disability Studies: An Introduction. He has written on disability, old age, and on various aspects of postcolonial literature and theory, especially the iconography of Indian nationalism, Indian Writing in English, and English Studies in India. He has also authored and edited study material on folklore and culture studies for distance learning students. An occasional translator, he has translated poems, stories, and novels into both English and Hindi.Rajesh Babu Sharma, Associate Professor of English, teaches literary theory and ELT at University of Lucknow, Lucknow. In his research and writing, his primary concerns have been ontology and epistemology of canon, marginality, gender identity, and the literary text. He has published a book, Canon After Deconstruction: Paul de Man's Perspective and more than a dozen articles in national and international journals. His areas of interest are critical theory, philosophy of language, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis and English Language Teaching.