A graduate from the University of Hyderabad, Dr Sayantan Mondal is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Other Languages. Sayantan has been an Erasmus Mundus Fellow at the University of Oxford (2015-16). He has been a recipient of the University of Heidelberg and the UGC Travel grants. He has delivered invited lectures in eminent institutes like SOAS, Queen Mary University of London, University of Leeds, Nottingham, Kyoto, Wollongong and Adelaide among others.