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Dr. Subir R. Kundu is a senior researcher conducting extensive studies on "in situ conservation models at the University of Calcutta in Kolkata, India. Previously, he was a senior research fellow at the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Gardens under the Botanical Survey of India in Howrah, India. Dr. Kundu received his MSc. in botany from Kanpur University, Kanpur India, specializing in cytogenics and plant breeding; he then received his Ph.D. in botany from the University of Calcutta, specializing in plant geography, systematic botany, and conservation biology. He is the author of four botany and conservation-related books and numerous journal publications on conservation and evolutionary biology. Dr. Jaya Sarkar is an Assistant Professor of English at the School of Law, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India. She has completed her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, Hyderabad, India. Her research interests include Posthumanism, Disability Studies, Digital Humanities, Postmodernism, and Feminist Studies. She is a member of the board of directors of the Posthuman Lab and is a Fellow of the Indian Posthumanism Network. She has edited the book Industrial Melanism: An Evolutionary Reverse Swing and has been published in the Journal of Posthuman Studies, Convergence, NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Journal of Posthumanism, Edinburgh Architecture Research, Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Transpositiones, EASST Review, and Tête-à-Tête by Louisiana State University Press. She has also written chapters that are included in books published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ibidem-Verlag, and Routledge. |