Alok Bhalla

Alok Bhalla obtained his Master’s in English from Delhi University and Ph D from Kent State University, USA. At present he is Visiting Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia. Till recently he was professor at the English and Foreign Languages University (former CIEFL). He is also on the Executive Council of the Sahitya Akademi. He has been a Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (2007), a Fellow at the Rockefeller Centre, Bellagio, Italy and at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. As a writer he has published extensively on the partition of India, 19th century British romanticism and Latin American literature. Amongst his recent books are Stories About the Partition of India (3 volumes), Partition Dialogues: Memories of a Lost Home and The Life and Times of Saadat Hasan Manto, and The Place of Translation in a Literary Habitat. He is the author of two books on the Gothic Novel. He has translated Dharavir Bharati’s, Andha Yug into English verse, as well as the stories of Intizar Husain (2 volumes), Ram Kumar, Manto, Gulzar and others, and the poems of Udayan Vajpai, Kedarnath Singh, Kunwar Narain etc. With Nirmal Verma and U R Anathamurthy, he used to edit Yatra: Writings from the Indian Subcontinent.