Queer Provincialism: Narratives and Resilience of Rural India
暫譯: 酷兒省思：印度鄉村的敘事與韌性

Kaustav Chakraborty is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Southfield (Loreto) College, Darjeeling. He is the 2024-25 fellow at The Nantes Institute of Advanced Study, France. He has been a Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. His areas of interest are Queer Studies, Indigenous Literatures and Cultures, Folklore, Cultures of Nationalism, Philosophy of Intimacy, and South Asian Literatures. His major publications include Tagore and Nationalism (Co edited with K. L. Tuteja), The Politics of Belonging in Contemporary India: Anxiety and Intimacy (edited volume), Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India, Nations and Nationalisms: A Short Introduction, The Queer and the Vernacular Languages in India: Studies in Contemporary Texts and Cultures (Co edited with Anup Shekhar Chakraborty), and The Collected Short Stories of Kazi Nazrul Islam (Co edited with Syed Manzoorul Islam).

Himadri Roy is Professor in the School of Gender and Development Studies of Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He teaches queer studies, gender and media and gender and literature. His article titled 'Crossing Temporal Space for Disclosing One's Sexual Identity: A Psychoanalytical Study of Memories in March (2011)' published by IIAS, Shimla (2014), has been critically acclaimed, and his article titled, 'Unveiling the Hidden Desire: Cruising Places of Gay and Bisexual Men in New Delhi', is considered a very significant work. He has published academic books on gay men and Bollywood, titled 'Reel and the Real: Portrayal of Gay men in Bollywood Films' and Author to Auteur: Theories and Film Adaptations. He is also a novelist, and his novel Tales of Hope Chasers has been considered as a 'Must Read' by the Times of India.

Kaustav Chakraborty 是達爾吉靈南方學院（Southfield (Loreto) College）英語系的副教授。他是2024-25年度法國南特高等研究院的研究員。他曾是印度高等研究院（Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla）的研究員。他的研究興趣包括酷兒研究、原住民文學與文化、民俗學、民族主義文化、親密哲學以及南亞文學。他的主要出版作品包括《泰戈爾與民族主義》（與 K. L. Tuteja 共同編輯）、《當代印度的歸屬政治：焦慮與親密》（編輯卷）、《東印度和東北印度的部落民間故事的酷兒化》、《民族與民族主義：簡短介紹》、《印度的酷兒與方言：當代文本與文化研究》（與 Anup Shekhar Chakraborty 共同編輯）以及《卡齊·納茲魯爾·伊斯蘭的短篇小說集》（與 Syed Manzoorul Islam 共同編輯）。

Himadri Roy 是新德里印度甘地國立開放大學性別與發展研究學院的教授。他教授酷兒研究、性別與媒體以及性別與文學。他的文章《穿越時間空間揭示自我性別認同：2011年《三月》中的記憶的精神分析研究》於2014年由印度高等研究院（IIAS, Shimla）發表，受到廣泛好評；而他的另一篇文章《揭示隱藏的渴望：新德里的同性戀與雙性戀男性的約會場所》被認為是一部非常重要的作品。他出版了關於同性戀男性與寶萊塢的學術書籍，名為《銀幕與現實：寶萊塢電影中的同性戀男性描繪》和《作者到導演：理論與電影改編》。他也是一位小說家，他的小說《追尋希望的故事》被《印度時報》評為「必讀」作品。