Subhasree Basu is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Loreto College. She earned her doctoral degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2017 for her thesis "’Of Beauty and Riotous Pleasure’: Popular American Cultural Expression and the Short Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald".Her areas of interest include Modern American Literature, Caribbean and Australian Literature, Short Story, literature of the Romantic Period and Partition Narratives. Her recent publications include ’Henry James The Ambassadors’ in The American Novel from Hawthorne to Heller: Cultural Contexts and Critical Perspectives (Macmillan, 2020), ‘Dissenting Voices in Gwendolyn Brooks’ Poetry’ in Aspects of Modernity: American Women’s Poetry (Kolkata, 2014). She has also edited the VIIth volume of Critical Imprints, the peer-reviewed annual journal of the Department of English, Loreto College. She has presented papers at a number of national and international conferences and was nominated for the U.S State Department of Education’s International Visitor’s Leadership Programme titled ‘Developing American Studies Curricula’ in 2011. She was also selected for an international workshop on South Asian Cultural Studies at Institute of Advanced Communication and Research, Kathmandu, Nepal in April 2013. She was awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellowship 2013-14 for her doctoral research and took classes in the graduate and post graduate sections in the department of American and English Literature, Rutgers, New Jersey during her stay in the U.S. She is a core member of South Asian Foundation for Academic Research (SAFAR), a forum of researchers and scholars from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka committed to the study of South Asia.