Sk Sagir Ali is an assistant professor at the Department of English, Midnapore College, West Bengal. He earned his PhD from the Department of English at Jadavpur University. His areas of interest include South Asian fiction, religion, nationalism, literary theory, and postcolonialism. His published works include the edited books Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance Margins and Extremism, Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys, War on Terror: Nation, Democracy, and Liberalisation, and Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture. His forthcoming monograph, Culture, Community, and Difference in Select Contemporary British Muslim Fictions will be published soon from Routledge. His articles appear in journals of repute like South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies from the University of Florida Press, etc. Avijit Basak is an assistant professor at the Department of English, Maharaja Manindra Chandra College, Kolkata, India. He primarily teaches postmodern texts, trauma literature, and marginal narratives, with a focus on history, theory, and philosophy. He is also interested in postcolonialism, memory studies, and cultural studies. He has been published by Routledge and Burdwan University Press, among others.
