Nishi Pulugurtha is Reader in English, Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata. She was a UGC Research Fellow,University of Calcutta and earned her Ph.D on Coleridge’s poetry. Her post doctoral work dealt poetry written in English by Bengalis in the nineteenth century (UGCMRP). She is now working on diasporic literature and has been awarded an Associateship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.