Saikat Pradhan is a PhD student and UGC Senior Research Fellow in English Studies at
the University of North Bengal, India. He is an active member of the Canadian
Association of Cultural Studies (CACS-ACEC) and MELOW (Society for the Study of
the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World). His research interests include
urban studies, environmental humanities, plant humanities, posthumanism, decoloniality,
Adivasi Studies and popular culture. He has presented papers at the Universities
of Exeter and Kent in the UK, and at Southern New Hampshire University in the
USA. He is a contributor to The Palgrave Handbook of Virtual Reality
Literature (forthcoming).

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