Pramod K. Mishra has taught at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal; Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois; and Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. He joined Augustana the English Department in the fall of 2002. His academic and teaching interests include twentieth century British, American and Postcolonial literatures and literary and cultural theory. He is particularly interested in exploring East-West, Third World-First World, North-South literary and cultural systems through expressive forms. He has published academic essays in Ariel, CR: The New Centennial Review, American Book Review, Rethinking Marxism, Poligraph, and The Kathmandu Post Book Review