NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
Fritz Blackwell: 1s an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Washington State University at Pullman (U,S»A). His area of specialization is South Asian Literature.
Michael Garman: was a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of English at Karnatak University, Dharwar, from 1964 to 1966, and a Research Scholar at Edinburgh University during 1967-69.
Chetan Karnani: teaches English at the University of Rajasthan , Jaipur,
India, He is the author of Nissim Ezekiel (Arnold-Heinemann Publishers (India) Private Limited, 1974), and has written literary criticism for many books and periodicals. His forthcoming publications include
Criticism^ Aesthetics and Psychology: A Study of the Writings of I. A. Richards^ and Indian Classical Music: A Critical Introduction. He is a commissioned music critic for Quest and The Times of India.
Inder Nath Kher: is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, He is the author of The Landscape of Absence: Emily Dickinson^ Poetry (Yale University Press, 1974), and of articles on Nissim Ezekiel and Hermann Hesse< He is currently working on a book-length study of the works of Nissim Ezekiel, to be published by the Twayne Publishers in their World Authors Series. He has been the Associate Editor of Emily Dickinson Bulletin.
Shiv Ko Kumar: is Professor and Chairman of the Department of English,
Osmania University, Hyderabad, IndiBc He is widely published both as a poet and critic in India as well as abroad. His books include
Bergson and the Stream of Consciousness; Critical Approaches to Fiction;
British Victorian Literature and British Romantic Poets: Recent Revaluations.
Shyamala A. Narayan: has degrees from the Pan jab University and the University of Mysore^ Her doctoral thesis was on Raja Rao and the Indian Novel in English. She is the author of Sudhin Ghose (Arnold-Heinemann Publishers [India] Private Limited), and since 1971 is in charge of compiling the Indian section of The Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature^ which appears annually in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She is married, has one daughter, and lives in Ranchi, Indiao
Vasant A< Shahane: is currently Professor of English at Osmania University, Hyderabad, IndiBo In 1967-68 he was a Visiting Professor at Wisconsin University, La Crosse, Wisconsin, and in 1970-71 was a Visiting Professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan» His publications include E. M. Forster: A Reassessment (1962), Perspectives on E. M. Forster's A Passage to India (1968), Khushwant Singh (Twayne Publishers, 1973), and Rudyard Kipling: Activist and Artist (Southern Illinois University Press, 1974).