Dr. Gautam Kundu

Gautam Kundu was educated in Calcutta, India, Canada, and in the United States, where he obtained his terminal degree in modern American literature and film. (His specialty is literature of the Twenties and F. Scott Fitzgerald.) He attended the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College, and is the recipient of two NEH fellowships to study postcolonial literatures and theory, first at the University of Texas in Austin and then at the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London. He has published essays on Samuel Sewall, Fenimore Cooper, Henry James, Willa Cather, F.Scott Fitzgerald, and on Indian cinema, including the films of Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen. His book on F. Scott Fitzgerald if forthcoming in 2004.

Gautam Kundu is an Associate Professor of English at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, wherte he teaches World Literature, the American Novel, and Postcolonial Literatures and Theory. He is the editor of a bi-annual scholarly publication Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, which is funded Georgia Southern University.