Examinations) at the University’s headquarters in Hyderabad and taught in the Department of English Literature there. A Professor in English Literature, she has an extensive teaching experience spanning over more than twenty years. She researches in philosophy and women’s writing, and the voices of women poets from those intellectual edges that have hitherto been identified as the ‘margins’ of literary writing. She has significantly published on literature, literary theory, and culture. Her books include Writings across Genres: Indian Literature, Language and Culture (2015), Daring to Write: The Two Creative Daughters of Victorian England (2015), and Emily Dickinson: Writing as a Woman (2017), and currently has two on-going book-length projects: one on “Gitanjali”: An Exalted Manifestation of Buddhist Aesthetics (a research as a current Associate of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study [IIAS], Shimla, India), and the other on “A thought went up my mind today –”: An Inquiry into a Post-Kantian Transcendental Philosophy in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry. She has been awarded with the Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2019-2020, by the United States-India Education Foundation (USIEF), to pursue her postdoctoral research at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, for her work on the book on Dickinson. She has visited Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the University of Minnesota, and St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, to attend several programmes, including seminars, that were held in these Institutions. She is a member of the Library of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, the Jones Library, Amherst, Massachusetts, the Philosophy Club, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, the Five College Women’s Studies and Research Center, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, the American Library, Kolkata, West Bengal, and a life member of the National Library, Kolkata, West Bengal. She was also a member of the Robert Frost Library, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, and a visitor to the Archives and Special Collections, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. She has had the honour of receiving a letter from the President of the United States, The White House, Washington, in appreciation of representing the country as a member of the Department of State Exchange Program.