Ashis Sengupta is Professor of English at the University of North Bengal, India. A recipient of the Olive I. Reddick award (1995), Fulbright American Studies Institute fellowship (2002), Fulbright visiting scholarship (2006) and SASNET guest lecturer grant (2009), he has widely published on American and South Asian theatre in international journals that include Comparative American Studies, Contemporary Theatre Review and Theatre Research International. His edited volumes include Mapping South Asia through Contemporary Theatre (2014) and Islam in Performance (Methuen Drama, 2017). His most recent monograph is Postdramatic Theatre and India (Methuen Drama, 2022). His areas of interest include literary and cultural theory, and theatre and performance studies.