"Malashri Lal is Professor, Department of English, and the current Joint Director of the University of Delhi, South Campus. With a specialization in literary studies, she has written and lectured extensively on women's socio-cultural positioning and women's writing. Among her publications are The Law of the Threshold: Women Writers in Indian English, and the co-edited volumes Women's Studies in India: Contours of Change; Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature, and most recently, The Indian Family in Transition. Lal has served on the international jury for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and received fellowships from the Fulbright and the Rockefeller Foundation. "