Subhadeep Ray is the coordinator of the Department of English (PG & UG), Bidhan Chandra College, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, India. He did his PhD on Joseph Conrad’s fiction, and researches on modernity, postcolonial studies, translation studies and disability studies. He is a contributor to the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (Poland) – Columbia University Press (USA) Conrad Project, and also to Disability in Translation: The Indian Experience, edited by Someshwar Sati and GJV Prasad, pub. Routledge, New Delhi and London (in print). He presented his research paper at a conference on “Disability Histories” at the University of Sheffield, UK in June 2018.