Dhriti Ray Dalai is an Assistant Professor and teaches at the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. She has research interest in the areas of Apartheid Literature, South African Fiction, 18th Century English History, Disability Studies, Sexuality, Kishore Sahitya, as well as Interdisciplinary Studies and Creative Pedagogy. She has a book titled The Castaways of History Revisiting the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee (2019).