Dr. Nishi Pulugurtha is a Senior Lecturer at Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College (affiliated to the University of Calcutta), Kolkata. Brought up in Kolkata where she did her schooling and college, Dr. Pulugurtha was a UGC Junior Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of English, University of Calcutta. She earned her PhD from the University of Calcutta in English Literature. Her post doctoral work dealt with the effect of English on the intellectual life of Bengal and on poetry written in English by Bengalis in the nineteenth century. She is actively into research and has published extensively both academic work and articles on travel in 'The Statesman', Kolkata. Her research interests include British Romantic Literature, Indian Writing in English, Postcolonial and Postmodern literature.