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Christopher Rollason

rollason54@gmail.com

Dr Christopher Rollason is a British national. He graduated with First Class Honours in English literature from Trinity College, Cambridge (England) in 1975, and obtained his Ph.D. from York University (England) in 1988, with a dissertation on Edgar Allan Poe (an author on whom he has subsequently published and lectured widely). For eight years up to 1987 he was a member of the Department of Anglo-American Studies at the Faculty of Letters of Coimbra University (Portugal). Dr Rollason has worked in recent years in various contexts - institutional contacts, conferences, publications, etc - with universities including: Surrey and Manchester (England), Caen (France), Bologna (Italy), Córdoba and Valencia (Spain), San Marcos (Lima, Peru), and Kakatiya University (Warangal), CIEFL (Hyderabad) and IIT Kanpur, all in India. In March 2006 he was a Visiting Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi). He is a member of the MLA and the Poe Studies Association, as well as of AEDEAN (the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies) and AEEII (Spanish Association for Intercultural Studies on India).

Dr Rollason has been Language Editor for the Atlantic Literary Review (Delhi), and has contributed to that journal and to a number of the anthologies issued by Atlantic Publishers, Delhi (see: http://www.vedamsbooks.com/). Among the Indian literary figures he has written on are Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Vikram Chandra, Amitav Ghosh, Raja Rao, Arundhati Roy and Manju Kapur. In 2002 he co-edited (with Dr Rajeshwar Mittapalli) the anthology 'Modern Criticism' (Delhi: Atlantic), to which he also contributed an essay on Walter Benjamin. In 2010 he co-edited (with Drs Sheobhushan Shukla and Ana Shukla) the book 'Entwining Narratives: Critical Explorations into Vikram Chandra's Fiction' (Delhi: Sarup). He has also contributed to a number of other Indian publications, including: The Pioneer (Delhi), The Statesman (Kolkata/Calcutta), IJOWLAC (Kolkata/Calcutta), Kakatiya Journal of English Studies (Warangal), Re-Markings (Agra), Summerhill (Simla), Seva Bharati Journal of English Studies (Midnapore, West Bengal), Prosopisia (Ajmer) and the Indian Journal of Postcolonial Literature (Thodupuzha, Kerala).

Other websites on which Dr Rollason has published include: The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate and The Modern Word (essays on Jorge Luis Borges and José Saramago). In addition, he has contributed a large amount of material on Bob Dylan to the Bob Dylan Critical Corner site, which he co-edits with Nicola Menicacci, as well as writing for the UK-based Dylan print magazine 'The Bridge'. He was a speaker at the major Dylan conference held at the University of Caen in 2005, and lectured on Dylan and Edgar Allan Poe at the Poe conference held in Alcalá de Henares (Spain) in 2009.

Dr Rollason can be contacted at rollason54@gmail.com. His blog, which is bilingual in English and Spanish and concentrates on cultural subjects, can be found at http://spaces.msn.com/members/christopherrollason/.