Dr Christopher Rollason is a British national. He lives in Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg). 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 (on whom he has also published numerous articles). 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 (institutionally/personally/via conferences and/or publications) with universities including: Surrey (England), Caen (France), Bologna (Italy), Vigo (Spain), and San Marcos (Lima, Peru), and, as a guest lecturer in India, Kakatiya University (Warangal, Andhra Pradesh), CIEFL (Hyderabad) and JNU (Delhi). He is a member of AEDEAN (the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies) and the Poe Studies Association. 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. Among the Indian literary figures he has written on are Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Vikram Chandra, Amitav Ghosh 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 Castellón) ‘Postcolonial Feminist Writing’, a special issue of the Atlantic Literary Review. In 2010 he co-edited a volume on Vikram Chandra with Drs Sheobhushan Shukla and Anu Shukla. He has also contributed to a number of other Indian publications, namely: The Pioneer (Delhi), The Statesman (Kolkata/Calcutta), IJOWLAC (Kolkata/Calcutta) and Kakatiya Journal of English Studies (Warangal). He has published on Bob Dylan in print form in ‘Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais’ and ‘Jornal de Notícias’ (Portugal), ‘Fanzimmer’, ‘The Grove’ and ‘Atlantis’ (Spain) ‘San Marcos Semanal’ (Lima) and ‘Parking Meter’ (Vienna), as well as being a regular contributor to the UK-based Dylan magazine ‘The Bridge’. Dr Rollason has given numerous conference papers on Poe, Rushdie, Dylan and other subjects.
NOTE: Post updated 2 Aug 2018. Dr Rollason also has a website at:
http://yatrarollason.info
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