INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAVEL WRITING Sep ’13, No. 2.4 | www.coldnoon.com Contributors Vihang A. Naik studied at the M.S. University of Baroda in Philosophy, Indian and English Literature. He teaches at Shree Ambaji Arts College, North Gujarat. His poems have appeared in literary journals such as Indian P.E.N., Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi’s Bi-Monthly Journal) , Kavya Bharati , Poeisis : A Journal of Poetry Circle , The Journal of The Poetry Society (India), Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, Brown Critique, and Poetry Chain among others. His books of English poetry are City Times and Other Poems (1993), Making a Poem (Allied Publishers, 2004), Poetry Manifesto (IndiaLog Publications, 2010). His Gujarati collection of poems includes Jeevangeet (Gujarati Poems, pub. Navbharat Sahitya Mandir, 2001) dedicated to the victims of the Gujarat Earthquake of 2001. He also translates poetry from Gujarati into English. His personal website is: <http://www.vihang.org>. Pritha Kejriwal is the Editor-in-Chief of Kindle Magazine, a national, political and cultural monthly journal, published from Kolkata since August 2008. She has completed Masters in Journalism from Calcutta University and was employed at the Hindustan Times and NDTV, before she founded Kindle Magazine along with Maitreyi Kandoi. She is currently working on two collections of poetry – The Book of Questions and The Book of Dreams. Poems from both the collections have been published in Contemporary World Poetry Journal and Pens on Fire. Ankita Haldar is a PhD student at the Center for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her area of research is Culinary Fiction. An amateur photographer and painter, she is also passionate about travelling, art history and art iconography. Another minor research interest of hers is symbolism in prehistoric rock cave paintings. Christopher Reilley is the current poet laureate of Dedham, MA, and founder of the Dedham Poet Society. He is the author of Grief Tattoos and the Contributors | p. 167 Coldnoon: Travel Poetics (Print ISSN 2278-9650 | Online ISSN 2278-9650) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAVEL WRITING Sep ’13, No. 2.4 | www.coldnoon.com upcoming One Night Stanza (Big Table Publishing), and a contributing editor at Acoustic Ink. His poems have appeared in many magazines and reviews, such as Boston Literary Magazine, Word Salad, Frog Croon and Poetry Review. His works have been featured in several anthologies, including Sanctuary, Hot Summer Nights, and Dark Imaginings. James I. McDougall, PhD is Associate Professor of American Studies at Shantou University’s Center for International Studies in Guangdong Province, China where he teaches courses on cultures of globalization, literature, and critical theory. He has recently published on the connections between US and Chinese modern poetry in American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter, and the globalization of higher education in The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education. Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist and curator. His poems have appeared in numerous journals including Akzente, Boulevard Magenta, fieralingue.com, Fulcrum, The Green Integer Review, The Iowa Review, nthposition.com, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Prairie Schooner, sangamhouse.org, Wasafiri, and Wespennest. Hoskote’s poetry has been published in many anthologies, including Short Fuse (Todd Swift and Philip Norton eds., Rattapallax, 2002) The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Jeet Thayil ed., Bloodaxe, 2008), Language for a New Century (Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar eds., W. W. Norton, 2008), The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (Sudeep Sen ed., HarperCollins, 2012), These My Words: The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry (Eunice de Souza and Melanie Silgardo eds., Penguin, 2012), and Another Country: An Anthology of Post-Independence Indian Poetry in English (Arundhathi Subramaniam ed., Sahitya Akademi, 2013). Hoskote’s collections of poetry include Vanishing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1985-2005 (Penguin, 2006) and Die Ankunft der Vögel (Carl Hanser Verlag, 2006). His translation of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic Lal Ded has been published as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (Penguin Classics, 2011). He is the editor of Dom Moraes: Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics, 2012), the first annotated critical edition of a major Anglophone Indian poet’s work. Contributors | p. 168 Coldnoon: Travel Poetics (Print ISSN 2278-9650 | Online ISSN 2278-9650) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAVEL WRITING Sep ’13, No. 2.4 | www.coldnoon.com Hoskote has curated or co-curated numerous exhibitions, including the 7th Gwangju Biennale (Korea, 2008). He curated India’s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale, under the title ‘Everyone Agrees: It’s About to Explode’ (2011). He was a Fellow of the International Writing Program, University of Iowa, and has been writer-in-residence at Villa Waldberta, Munich; Theater der Welt, Essen-Mülheim; and the Polish Institute, Berlin. He holds a research residency at BAK/ basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. Jerrold Yam is an undergraduate law student at University College, London and the author of two poetry collections, Scattered Vertebrae (Math Paper Press, 2013) and Chasing Curtained Suns (Math Paper Press, 2012). His poems have been published in more than sixty literary journals and anthologies worldwide, including Antiphon, Counterexample Poetics, Mascara Literary Review, Prick of the Spindle, The New Poet, Third Coast and Washington Square Review. He has been awarded poetry prizes from the Arts Council England, British Council and National University of Singapore. He is the youngest Singaporean to be nominated for the Pushcart Prize. <http://www.jerroldyam.com >. Anne Lovering Rounds is Assistant Professor of English at Hostos Community College, City University of New York. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and a BA in English and Classics from the University of Chicago. Her work has appeared in Literary Imagination and Studies in the Novel. She is a co-managing editor of Modernism/modernity, the journal of the Modernist Studies Association. Elsa Mathews is a Master of Arts in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies from the Universite Stendhal, Grenoble, France and the University of Aarhus, Denmark. She has worked as a journalist at The Pioneer and The Indian Express. She currently works at the United Nations as Communication Consultant. James I. McDougall, PhD, is Associate Professor of American Studies at Shantou University’s Centre for International Studies in Guangdong Province, China where he teaches courses on cultures of globalization, literature, and Contributors | p. 169 Coldnoon: Travel Poetics (Print ISSN 2278-9650 | Online ISSN 2278-9650) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAVEL WRITING Sep ’13, No. 2.4 | www.coldnoon.com critical theory. He has recently published on the connections between US and Chinese modern poetry in American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter, and the globalization of higher education in The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education. He currently lives in South China with his wife, Liulu, and sons, Colin and Sean. Sébastien Doubinsky is a French bilingual writer, born in Paris. Having lived in the United States in his early childhood, Doubinsky has always been closely tied to American culture and literature. He has published more than 24 novels and 6 poetry collections in France, the UK and the USA. His last three novels are: Goobye Babylon, Absinth and The Song of Synth. His fiction can be seen as a mosaic of different styles and subjects, although they always are centered on the questions of freedom and identity. Doubinsky’s poetry is a mixture of “poésie du quotidien” (“daily poetry”) and a deeper approach of language and meaning. He currently lives and teaches in Aarhus, in Denmark, with his wife and their two children. He the Editor/Publisher of Le Zaporogue. Elwin Susan John is a PhD student in the Centre for Comparative Literature at University of Hyderabad. She is a UGC Junior Research Fellow; she submitted her MPhil dissertation at the Department of English at University of Hyderabad in 2011. Her academic interests include travel writing and body studies. Elisabetta Marino is tenured Assistant Professor of English literature at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata.” She published three monographs - Tamerlano dalla letteratura inglese alla letteratura Americana (Tamerlane in English and American literature), Introduzione alla letteratura bangladese britannica (an introduction to British Bangladeshi literature), Mary Shelley e l’Italia (Mary Shelley and Italy). She edited or co-edited four volumes (among which, Transnational, National, and Personal Voices: New Perspectives on Asian American and Asian Diasporic Women Writers, and Positioning the New: Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon). She has published extensively on travel literature. Contributors | p. 170 Coldnoon: Travel Poetics (Print ISSN 2278-9650 | Online ISSN 2278-9650) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAVEL WRITING Sep ’13, No. 2.4 | www.coldnoon.com Chin-yuan Hu is Associate Professor of English and Director of Centre for Cross-cultural Studies at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. She has offered courses of “Travel Narrative” and “Travel: Literature and Visual Arts” to graduate and undergraduate students since 1994. In addition