Notes on Contributors

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Notes on Contributors

Lexical Semantics: Mapping Gender and Cultural Geography in Le Guin’s Speculative Fiction

Anupa Lewis, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India

Anupa Lewis holds the position assistant professor – senior scale at Manipal Institute of Communication. She is the coordinator of the Tagore Centre – MAHE, Manipal. She has about a decade experience as a lecturer, the resource person for workshops and also organizing international conferences in various fields. Her current areas of research include cultural studies, comparative literature, literary anthropology, speculative fiction, ecocriticism, feminist rhetoric and narratology. On the creative front, her flash fiction is published in volume one of the Bath Flash Fiction anthology titled – To Carry Her Home, printed by Ad Hoc Fiction (2018). E-mail: anupa.lewis@manipal.edu

Padma Rani, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India

Dr Padma Rani is a director and professor at Manipal Institute of Communication. She is the founder of the Media Research Centre – MAHE, and the Editor of the Global Media Journal – the Indian Edition. Padma Rani has a wide array of experience in collaborative teaching and interdisciplinary research, and has been visiting faculty in universities in India and Germany. Her research forays in particular range from reviewing advancements in ICTs to studying the role of Alternative Media, Media Effects, Gender Studies, Social Anthropology, and InterCultural Communication. E-mail: padma.rani@manipal.edu

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Revisiting (In)visibility: A Reflexive Study of Two English Translations of Iqbal’s Shikwa and Jawab-i-Shikwa

Kashif Shakeel, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Rana Kashif Shakeel is a lecturer in English at University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. He received his Masters and M.Phil. degrees in English literature from the Government College University, Faisalabad and is currently pursuing his doctoral degree in Linguistics & Literature at Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan. His research interest includes South Asian & Pakistani Literature in English, Postcolonial Studies, Trauma Studies, Cultural Studies, Translation Studies, Theories of Power and Corpus Linguistics. He is determined to work on certain contemporary issues in South Asian & Pakistani Literature in English. His publications include two books, one on the French philosopher Maine de Biran and another (2013, College de France) on the topic of ancient China politics and ritual. E-mail: kashif.gcuf@gmail.com

Farooq Maan, English at Air University, Islamabad

Dr Maria Farooq Maan is an assistant professor of English at Air University, Islamabad, where she is currently teaching Postcolonial Studies, World Literature in Translation, and Women’s Writings. Her research interests include Postcoloanialism, creative writing as a research method, and translation as a creative event amongst others. E-mail: maria.farooqmaan@gmail.com

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Leadership Styles, Promotion Opportunities, and Salary as Correlates of Turnover Intentions among Librarians in some Nigerian University Libraries

Afebuameh James Aiyebelehin, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria

Dr Afebuameh James Aiyebelehin holds Bachelors of Science in Library and Information science from Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Ibadan and PhD from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is a recipient of the Carnegie CPD Fellowship at the University of Pretoria, South-Africa. He has been a Lecturer at the Department of Library and Information Science, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma since 2011. He has published over 20 articles in reputable journals both locally and internationally in the area of library management, users’ behavior, emerging technologies, and social media. E-mail: aiyebelehin@aauekpoma.edu.ng

Rosemary Odiachi, Benson Idahosa University, Nigeria

Rosemary Odiachiholds a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science and is currently a Doctoral student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka – Nigeria. She is a librarian at Benson Idahosa University, Edo state. She has written many articles on different aspects of librarianship. E-mail: rodiachi@biu.edu.ng

Blessing Omoregie, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria

Blessing Omoregie is a fresh graduate of Library and Information Science from Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, and a research assistant. E-mail: Belynomo2015@gmail.com

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How to Employ Nagasaki: Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills

Akiyoshi Suzuki, Nagasaki University, Japan

Dr Akiyoshi Suzuki is a professor of American literature, world literature and East-West Studies at Nagasaki University, Japan. He has held positions such as an English Test Design Commission of the National Center for University Entrance Examinations in Japan, guest professor at Suzhou University of Science & Technology in China, librasia 2014 conference chair & featured speaker and so forth, and now he is president of Katahira English Literature

Society, the chief director of Japan Society of Text Study, the editorial board of the International Association for East-West Studies (USA), and others.

Akiyoshi Suzuki has introduced innovative and inventive readings of literature, such as 3-D topographic reading of Haruki Murakami’s fiction (IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship 2(1) https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.2.1.02), cross-cultural reading of doll-love novels in the world with relativization of Western episteme (Journal of East-West Thought 3(3)), resistance against identity-centrism reading of Henry Miller’s fictions (Delta 7), and so on. His current project is to examine the nature of literature and promote peace in the world by finding affinities of expression and imagination in world literature. E-mail: suzu-a@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

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One Plus One is Greater than Two: Faculty-Librarian Collaboration for Developing Information Literacy in Higher Education

William Ko-Wai Tang, The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Dr William Ko-Wai Tang is Assistant Professor of the School of Education and Languages at The Open University of Hong Kong. He obtained his doctoral and master’s degree in Information Technology in Education from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr Tang has actively promoted Information Technology in Education by designing and teaching various Information Technology in Education training courses for pre-service and in-service teachers. He has over ten years experience in teacher education at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. His research interests lie in the area of information literacy and the application of information technology in education. E-mail: wtang@ouhk.edu.hk

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Motion, Change and Discontinuity in David Lodge’s Changing Places (1975)

Issaga Ndiaye, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal

Dr Issaga Ndiaye is senior lecturer in British literature. He holds a Doctorate Degree from Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (Senegal), where he currently teaches at the Department of English Studies. He defended a doctorate thesis on the rewritings of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. He also holds a Bachelor Degree in Linguistics and is a former teacher of the Department of Applied Foreign Languages in Assane Seck University of Ziguinchor (Senegal). His areas of interest include postmodern fiction and the Victorian novel. Dr Ndiaye is also interested in the history and evolution of the English novel and on the teaching of English as a foreign language. E-mail: ndiayeissaga@gmail.com

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Anthroparchic Gynocide/Genocide vs. Capitalist Patriarchy: An Ecofeminist Reading of Zadie Smith’s Two Men Arrive in a Village

Babak Ashrafkhani Limoudehi, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Babak Ashrafkhani Limoudehi is a faculty member at Guilan University of Medical Sciences, and is a frequent guest lecturer in English Literature at other colleges and universities in Iran. He has translated a number of works of literature into Persian, including Hisaye Yamamoto’s short story collection Seventeen Syllables, Edward Bond’s play Bingo, Alexander Ostrovsky’s play The Storm, and Christopher Durang’s For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls. His ongoing research concerns environmental criticism and Cultural Materialism. His recent essay in the field of Ecocriticism, “An Anthropogenic Upheaval: Edward Bond’s Bingo, Shakespeare’s Enclosure, and Terrocentric Identity” (2017) appeared in ECUMENICA. E-mail: Babak_ashrafkhani@yahoo.com

Narges Montakhabi Bakhtvar, Islamic Azad University (Central Tehran Branch), Iran

Dr Narges Montakhabi Bakhtvar is an Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature in the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran. Her research and teaching scope covers contemporary American fiction and poetry, comparative literature, and contemporary critical thought. Her PhD dissertation was on Richard Foreman’s theater studied from the perspective of Giorgio Agamben’s political thought. Since then, she has been surveying politics of literature within the frame of postmodern writing. Her publications in scholarly journals include: “Depoeticization of Poetry: A Study of Gertrude Stein’s Poetry in the Light of Maurice Blanchot’s Thought” (2020), “The Common and Postmodern Identity: A Sociological Study of ‘Open Theater’ in America” (2020), “A Comparative Study of Objectivism in Yadollah Royaee and Louis Zukofsky’s Poetry” (2020), “A Comparative Study of Postmodern Persian and American Poetry” (2019), “Language, Ethics, and Identity in Postmodern Theater” (2016), “Body Without Means (Gesture) in Richard Foreman’s Theater” (2016), “Language and Potentiality in Richard Foreman’s Theater” (2015), and “The Deleuzoguattarian Schizoanalysis of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Whoroscope’” (2011). Her essays in press are: “Politics of Evasion and Tales of Abjection: Postmodern Demythologization in Angela Carter and Ghazaleh Alizadeh” and “Phenomenology of History and Body-Subject in Charles Olson’s Poetics”. E-mail: nargesmontakhab@gmail.com