Nandana Dutta is Professor of English at the University of Gauhati, India. Her teaching and research interests are in American studies, gender, postcolonial theory and literature, travel writing and the discipline of English in India. Her publications include Questions of Identity in Assam: Location, Migration, Hybridity (2012), American Literature (in the 'Literary Contexts' series, 2016) and Mothers, Daughters and Others: Representation of Women in the Folk Narratives of Assam (edited with an Introduction, 2013), among others.