Dr Aparajita Hazra is Dean of Arts and Professor in the Department of English in Diamond Harbour Women’s University, West Bengal, India. A gold medallist and a National Scholar, she has also acted as Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies and the Director of the Centre for Foreign Language Studies in SKB University, India. She has been widely published and has presented papers widely in India, France, New Zealand, Macau, Malaysia, Canada, Ireland, Georgia and Scotland. She has authored The Terrible Beauty, Her Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Brontes: A Sorority of Passion, Marlowe, The Muse’s Darling and The Art of Articulation from Macmillan Publishers. An Anthology on the Gothic is on the way. She is the recipient of the Noble Asian Educational Leader Award, 2020, the Asian Education Award 2021, the National Faculty Award for 2021-22.