D.K. Mandal is a Research Scholar in the Department of HSS, NIT Patna. He is a poet writing poems in English. He has to his credit seventy-one publications, including twelve ISBN books. He has presented 43 papers at International and National conferences. He has attended various seminars, more than 200 webinars, and workshops on English Literature. He specializes in Indian Writing in English, Trauma Studies, Women's Studies, Indian Diasporic Writings, American Literature, Literary Criticism, Contemporary Literary Theories, especially Structuralism, Post-structuralism, and Deconstruction, Postmodernism, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Eco-criticism and Eco-feminism.