Nalini Natarajan is a Professor at the English Department, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico in the US, where she has been teaching at since 1987. Prior to this, she taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (1978 80) and Miranda House, Delhi (1984 86), and was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University (1986 87). She obtained her Ph.D from University of Aberdeen, UK in 1984.She has written a book titled "Woman and Indian Modernity: Readings of Colonial and Postcolonial Novels "in 2002, and edited "Handbook of Twentieth Century Literatures of India "in 1996, which received the