Dr. Raj Gaurav Verma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow. He has worked on children’s literature in India in English. His areas of specialization include Modern/ Postmodern literature, Indian Writing in English and the Literature of the diaspora. His published books include: Diasporic Writings: Narratives across Space and Time, Indian Women Writings: Introduction to Select Texts, Reading Gandhi: Perspectives in the 21st Century, Mahatma Gandhi:
Essays on Life and Literature, Mythological Fiction: An Introduction, and Myths, Mythology
and Mythological Narratives: Theories, Themes and Interpretations. He has authored a collection of poems in Hindi, Zindgi aur Main. Currently he is interested in the areas of Travel Writing, Anthropocenic Literature, Plant Studies and Critical Animal Studies.
He is a lifetime member of EFSLE and also an Executive Council Member (ECM) of its UP Central-South Region.