Dr H Kalpana completed her post-graduation at Bangalore University and her MPhil and PhD from Pondicherry University. As a recipient of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute’s (SICI) Graduate Research Award in 1994, she was affiliated to the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada where she was mentored by Prof Stephen Slemon, an eminent postcolonial critic. She received her doctorate in 1996 for the thesis, “Re-Shaping the Self: Feminine Identity in the Short Stories of Alice Munro and Shashi Deshpande”.Besides receiving several awards, she has a number of publications to her credit including a book, Quilting Relationships: A Cruise through Comparative Literary Studies. In addition to reading, she likes music, nature and all things great and small

Canadian and American Literature, Women’s Literature, Gender and Feminist Studies, Cultural and Diaspora Studies and New Literatures in English