Shelmi Sankhil is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies, School of Letters, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi.

Interest areas: Naga writing in English (fiction), Northeast Indian writing in english, myth and fantasy, hermeneutics, interface between literature and philosophy, literature and history, etc., and comparative worldview.

Publication: Flame on a Hill: A Collection of Stories (2021), and several articles and book reviews.

Current responsibilities at the University: I run the masters programme in Comparative Literature at AUD. I also teach two MA courses that were designed by me. These are “Reading Myth and Fantasy”, and “Hermeneutics: Key Theorists”. Besides these weekly teachings and admin related work of the programme, I am currently supervising 09 MA students of Comparative Literature working on their individual dissertation.