Currently, Swati Guha is Director of Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), Kolkata, which is affiliated to the Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal. Prior to this, Dr. Guha was Director of Nazrul Centre for Social and Cultural Studies, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal and the Development Officer of Sidho Kanho Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal.

She has long expertise on postcolonial literary and cultural history. Being a scholar of postcolonial literature, Bengali language and literature and an alumnus of Presidency College and Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Dr. Swati Guha has also been an award-winning author. She has focused mostly on issues of gender and development and cultural history. Creative writing is her area of strength and passion. She was also a lecturer at the Department of Bengali, Prafulla Chandra College, Kolkata, West Bengal and has delivered academic lectures at various institutions of India, Bangladesh, UK and USA. Her publications include many novels, short stories and academic monographs on Bengali poetry and Bengali literature.

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