Dipankar Roy teaches at the Department of English, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. His doctoral dissertation, "In Tagore's Own Country," was published in 2015. His essays on subjects ranging from Bengal Renaissance to Rudyard Kipling's Kim have come out in reputed national and international journals and books. He was awarded the Isaac Sequeira Memorial Award for his article on Amitav Ghosh.
