Bio

Sachidananda Mohanty is Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. He was Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Rhode Island College (2005); Senior Academic Fellow at the American Studies Research Center, Hyderabad (1999); Fellow, Cambridge Seminar on the Contemporary British Writer (1999); Fellow, University Salzburg, Austria (1996); Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the universities of Texas, Austin and Yale (1990–91);0 and a British Council Scholar in the U.K. (1990). He received the Katha British Council Translation Prize for outstanding translation (1994) and the University Grants Commission’s ‘Career Award’ (1994–97).

Dr Mohanty has published a number of books. These include: Lost Tradition: Early Women’s Writing in Orissa 1898-1950 (2005), Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna): A Centenary Tribute (2004), Travel Writing and the Empire (2003), Travel Writing and Colonialism (2003), Literature and Culture (2001), Essentials of Sri Aurobindo’s Thought (1998), In Search of Wonder: Understanding Cultural Exchange (1997), Sri Aurobindo and the New Age (1997), Lawrence’s Leadership Politics and the Defeat of Fascism (1992), and D. H. Lawrence Studies in India (1990). Some of his works in Oriya are Sailabala Das: Atma Jibani o Anya Prbandha (2004), Sarala Devi: Lekhika Sanskarika Biplabini (2004), and The Best Poetry of Bidyut Prabha (2001).

A number of essays and articles by him have appeared in some of the leading journals and forums in the country including India Today, The Hindu, The Indian Express, Span Magazine, The India International Center Quarterly, PEN, India, The Aligarh Journal of English Studies, New Quest, and The Economic and Political Weekly.