Author Event: Ghosts from the Past by Bansari Mitra

Join literary scholar, Dr. Bansari Mitra for the celebration of her book, Ghosts from the Past: Gothic and Postcolonial Themes in the 19th and 20th Century. Dr. Mitra's work explores gothic themes and tropes, Mary Shelley's canonical Frankenstein, film adaptations and the evolution of the genre as a whole.

Bansari Mitra received her Ph.D. in English from State University of New York at Buffalo. She

is a Writing Tutor in Wentworth Institute of Tech, Boston. She has published a book on the

migration of western folktales to the East, The Renovation of Folktales by Five Modern Bengali

Writers and articles on films in Asian Cinema and Kinema. She has taught in many universities