Prakash Chandra Pradhan

Prakash Chandra Pradhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P., India. After his Postgraduation from Utkal University (Orissa), he also obtained his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from this University. He had been teaching English Language and Literature in different colleges of Orissa under Utkal University before he taught at B.H.U. He received the "Teacher Fellowship" from the UGC and "Teacher Research Grant" from Indo...See more

Prakash Chandra Pradhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P., India. After his Postgraduation from Utkal University (Orissa), he also obtained his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from this University. He had been teaching English Language and Literature in different colleges of Orissa under Utkal University before he taught at B.H.U. He received the "Teacher Fellowship" from the UGC and "Teacher Research Grant" from Indo-American Centre for International Studies (formerly ASRC). He was sanctioned funds by the UGC for his research project on D.H. Lawrence. Dr. Pradhan has published a number of research papers, book reviews, critical essays in anthologies and journals of national and international repute. He has also published three books, namely D.H. Lawrence's Novels: A Stylistic Approach (2002); Timirara Surya (2002), a collection of poems in Oriya and Sibavai (2004), an Oriya novel by Gopinath Mohanty, translated into English. Currently, Dr. Pradhan is working on a research project on "A Postcolonial Reading of V.S. Naipaul's Works" and also guiding research scholars for Ph.D. See less