Biographical note

Cyrine Kortas, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow at the MECAM: the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb. Her postdoctoral project is entitled The Politics and Poetics of the New Man's Body Image in the Modernist Novel: A Sufi Comparative Study of D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, Mohamed Khaldi's Awted, and Abdallah Laroui's Awaraq. She is an assistant professor of English Language and Literature in the Higher Institute of Languages, Gabes, Tunisia. She has been participating in a number of international conferences both at home and abroad. Her area of research includes comparative literature, feminist, and gender studies.Ajit Kumar, PhD, is an academic, critic, editor, reviewer and interviewer from Haryana, India. His area of research includes gender studies and women's writing. He has interviewed many writers and poets from the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, France, Brazil, Sri Lanka and India. His recent reviews and interviews are published in the university journals of India, Australia and the USA. His popular publication includes Infinite Conversations: A Series of Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers (2017). Currently, he has been working as Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Higher Education, Haryana, India.