Dhaka, Bangladesh Target Language: Bengali, English © Sabiha Huq Sabiha Huq graduated from the University of Dhaka with a master's degree in English. She continued her studies and did her M.Phil. and her PhD at the University of Oslo, Norway. Since June 2013, she has been a Professor of English at Khulna University. The areas of her research and teaching interest are diverse, among others Ibsen and Modern Drama, Postcolonial Literatures with thrust on South Asian literature, Cultural Theory and Cultural Studies, Women’s Writings, and Translation and Comparative Literature. A long list of her publications mirror this varied range of interest and expertise, it includes numerous books, newspaper articles, reviews and interviews as well as several translations into Bangla.

Kolkata, India Target Language: Bengali, English © Subhendu Sarkar Subhendu Sarkar graduated from the University of Calcutta with a PhD and currently works as Associate Professor of English at Ranaghat College, West Bengal. His research and writings, in both Bangla and English, focus on varied areas such as theatre (Badal Sircar and Bertolt Brecht), 19th-century liberalism in Bengal, Gandhism, Marxism, and Translation Studies. He has lectured in many institutes of higher learning. So far he has published three books and many articles in edited volumes and scholarly journals and has translated two plays of Badal Sircar into English (published by Oxford University Press).

Dr. Tirthankar Chanda

Kolkata, India Target Language: Bengali, English © Tirthankar Chanda After receiving his PhD in Cytogenetics and working in educational institutions, Dr. Tirthankar Chanda joined 'In Search of Children's Theatre', a project by theatre group Nandikar, Kolkata. Following that he has been working with children's theatre groups independently. He compiled his experiences in that field in his first publication on theatre and education, published in1998. As a playwright, he has received some prestigious awards. Around thirty of his plays have been performed by different groups in India and abroad. He has authored several articles on sociological aspects of theatre and has two published memoirs as well. As a co-author, he completed the translation of Paulo Freire's 'The Pedagogy of the Oppressed' in Bengali. Currently, he teaches 'History of Theatre' at the University of Calcutta.