Dr Christopher Rollason is a British national living in France (CLICK to the right TO VIEW PHOTO). 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. 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 the following universities: Surrey and Manchester (England), Caen (France), Bologna
(Italy), Vigo and C�rdoba (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 AEDEAN (the
Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies).
Dr Rollason has been Language
Editor for the Delhi-based Atlantic
Literary Review 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 of Kakatiya University) the anthology 'Modern Criticism', published
by Atlantic, to which he also contributed an essay on Walter Benjamin. In 2003
he co-edited (with Dr Dora Sales Salvador of the Universidad Jaume I de
Castell�n, Spain) 'Postcolonial Feminist Writing', a special issue of the Atlantic
Literary Review. He has also contributed to a number of other Indian
publications: The Pioneer (Delhi), The Statesman (Kolkata/Calcutta),
IJOWLAC (Kolkata/Calcutta), Kakatiya Journal of English Studies (Warangal), Pegasus (Agra), Re-Markings (Agra),
Summerhill (Simla), Seva Bharati Journal of English Studies (Midnapore, West Bengal) and Reflections (Bhagalpur, Bihar).
Other websites on
which Dr Rollason has published include: The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate
and The Modern Word (essays on Jorge Luis Borges and Jos� 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.
Christopher Rollason