Alok Bhalla

Alok Bhalla obtained his Ph.D from Kent State University, USA. He was a Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Fellow at the Rockefeller Centre, Bellagio, Italy and Fellow at the IIAS, Shimla. Among his recent publications are Partition Dialogues: Memories of a Lost Home, The Place of Translation in a Literary Habitat, Life and Times of Saadat Hasan Manto (edited). He is the author of The Cartographers of Hell: Essays on the Gothic Novel and the Social History of England and The Politics of Atrocity and Lust: The Vampire Tale and a Nightmare History of England in the 19th Century. He has translated Dharamvir Bharati's Andha Yug into English verse, as well as Nirmal Verma's Raat Ka Reporter (Dark Dispatches), and Intizar Husain's Chronicle of the Peacocks, Ram Kumar's The Sea and Other Stories, and the poems of Udayan Vajpai, Kedarnath Singh, Kunwar Narain, etc.