Editorial Committee

Surajana works at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati (Assam, India) where she teaches Linguistics and English. She did her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Delhi after which she worked at the Centre for Assamese Studies, Tezpur University, Assam. Her areas of academic interest are Sociolinguistics, Language Teaching, Translation Studies, and Gender Studies. She dabbles in poetry (‘Rainbow Musings’ being her first poetry collection) and enjoys and gets frustrated by any translation challenge: she has translated from Assamese to English Indira Goswami, Bishnu Prasad Rabha and Bhupen Hazarika’s poems and songs, Arun Sarma’s famous play from the 1960s titled ‘Sri Nibaron Bhattacharya’ and Rajanikanta Bordoloi’s epochal 19th-century novel ‘Miri Jiyori’.

Rajesh Kumar (PhD, Illinois) is Professor of Linguistics and English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The areas of his teaching and research include theoretical linguistics, language and mind, and language and society. He has published several papers in journals of National and International repute and he is the author of several books. Some of his publications are Negation and licensing of negative polarity items in Hindi syntax, Some landmarks in the history of ideas — Jayant Lele lectures (co-edited with R. K. Agnihotri), Linguistic Foundations of Identity: Readings in Language, Literature, and Contemporary Cultures (co-edited with Om Prakash).

Devaki holds a Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics from the University of Mysore (1987). She had earlier completed her post-graduation in Psychology from Bangalore University. She also holds a Masters in Clinical Linguistics from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She has been with the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore since 1986 and has over 22 years of research experience in Academics. Her areas of interest are language learning, bilingualism and bilingual education, and the relation between language and cognition. She has published a number of papers in national and international research and education journals.