Kailash C. Baral is Professor of English and Director of the Northeast Campus of the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL) at Shillong. He has authored Sigmund Freud: A Study of His Theory of Art and Literature (1994) and edited two books Humanities and Pedagogy: Teaching of Humanities Today (2002) and Interpretation of Texts: text, meaning and interpretation (2002). He has also co-edited Theory and Praxis: Curriculum, Culture and English Studies (2003, with Kar and Rath) and Reflections on Literature, Criticism and Theory (2004, with Rath and Rao).

D. Venkat Rao is Professor at the School of Critical Humanities, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. He did postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Washington, Seattle and University of Chicago. He is one of the editors of the volume Reflections on Literature, Criticism and Theory (2004, with Rath and Baral). His areas of interest include literary and cultural studies, hypermedia, internet research, image studies, and mnemocultures.

Sura P. Rath is Professor of English and Director of William O. Douglas Honors College at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, USA. He has edited Flannery O’ Connor: New Perspectives (University of Georgia Press, 1996, with Mary Ann Shaw), Sitakanta Mahapatra: The Mythographer of Time (2001), Theory and Praxis: Curriculum, Culture and English Studies (2003, with Kar and Baral) and Reflections on Literature, Criticism and Theory (2004, with Baral and Rao).