Shubhanku Kochar teaches at the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He specialises in African literatures in English and eco-criticism. His latest publications are Environmental Post-Colonialism: A Literary Response (2021, Lexington Books), Literature from the Peripheries: Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism (2023, Lexington Books), and Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral: Representation of City and Village in Literature (2024, Ibidem/Columbia University Press). His forthcoming books are Beyond the Ocean: Literature History and the British Empire and Poverty and Pollution: Environmental Casteism and Dalit Literature, both to be published by Springer. His poems have been published in Protagonist, a popular literary magazine.

Shehnaz Kabir has been awarded with a doctorate degree by the Department of English at Jadavpur University. Her latest publications include "Negotiating Identities in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora: Queer Bildungsroman and Gendered Spaces in Select Novels of Shani Mootoo" (The IACLALS Journal, 2020) and "Commodification of Identity: Dissecting the Coolie Body in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora" (New Literaria, 2021). Her paper "Gendered Negotiations and Role of Female Agency in Select Indo-Caribbean Fiction" is published by Springer. Her areas of interest include hydro-colonialism, indenture trade, diaspora literature, material cultures, and postcolonial studies.