(Began teaching as Lecturer in 1958. Became Reader in 1970).

Professor & Head, Departments of English, Himachal Univ. 1973-1976

Professor & Head Departments of English, Berhampur Univ. 1976-1990

Professor & Head, Departments of English, Utkal Univ. 1990-1996

Principal Investigator, Tribal Folklore Research Project (University Grants Commission). 1997-2000

Ph.D., Univ. of Calcutta. A.M. Univ. of Wisconsin (Madison). M.A., Univ. of Calcutta.

British Council Visitorship, 1992 (Cambridge University). Senior Fulbright, 1991(University of Wisconsin & SUNY at Buffalo). American Council of Learned Societies Senior Fellow 1978-79 (SUNY at Buffalo). Fulbright, 1965-66 (University of Wisconsin, Madison). Regina Guha Gold Medal (U. of Calcutta, 1957).

ACADEMIC WRITING

Books:

The Major Novels of D.H.Lawrence: An Approach to his Art and Ideas.

1973. Delhi: Service, 1977.

Osiris N: the Victim and the American Novel. Amsterdam: Gruner, 1985.

The Oxford English-English-Oriya Dictionary: Delhi: Oxford UP, 2003.

The Indian Mind. Ed.: Bhubaneswar: Gyanajuga, 2004.

Ed. Six books of poetry, drama and prose, published by Oxford UP India.

Papers: About 50, in different journals.

CREATIVE WRITING

Novels and Story-Collections: Two novels in Oriya and two in English; and one short story collection in Oriya; about thirty short stories in Oriya and English published in magazines; about twenty poems in English published in magazines.

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Criticism: 1. "Terminal Configurations in the American Novel." 2. "Recovery of the Text." 3. "Cultural Imperialism: Myth and Reality."

CONTINUING RESEARCH

"From the Margin to the Center: Mythology and Folklore of the Tribal People of Orissa."