Dr. Sambit Panigrahi is a Professor of English at Ravenshaw University, Cuttack. He holds a

Ph. D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and his Ph. D. dissertation is on eminent,

modern British writer Joseph Conrad. Dr. Panigrahi is the author of international critical books like Patriarchy against Nature/Woman: A Green Study of Joseph Conrad’s Fiction, and Voices from Africa: The Colonization/Decolonization Dialectic in J. M. Coetzee’s Fiction and translated works like Ajivaka’s Laughter and The Dance of the Ghost and Other Stories. He has published many scholarly articles in journals of international repute including Italian Quarterly, Italica, Quaderni, South Asian Review, The Explicator, Notes on Contemporary Literature etc. He has presented papers in international seminars held in various reputed institutes including University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. He specializes in modern and postmodern literatures and is presently working on various postmodern critical approaches to study eminent Italian author of postmodernity Italo Calvino. Dr. Panigrahi has produced many M. Phil and Ph. D. scholars during his tenure as a faculty member at Ravenshaw University, Cuttack and G. M. University, Sambalpur.