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Dr. Pulugurtha is Head and Associate Professor in the department of English, at Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College. She has taught as Guest Faculty at West Bengal State University and Rabindra Bharati University. A UGC Junior Research and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English, University of Calcutta, she earned her Ph.D on Coleridge’s poetry. She has completed three UGC Minor Research projects – the first on poetry written in English in Bengali in the nineteenth century, the second on diaspora poetry and a third on Telugu films and the diaspora.She has been awarded an Associateship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India. Her research areas are British Romantic literature, Postcolonial literature, Indian writing in English, literature of the diaspora and film. Dr. Pulugurtha has presented papers at national and international conferences in India and abroad and has published in refereed international and national journals. Nishi is a creative writer and writes poems and short stories. She writes on travel and Alzheimer’s Disease too. Dr. Pulugurtha has edited the June 2018 Issue of Café Dissensus that focused on Travel Writing.