Roopali Sircar Gaur, Ph.D. is a lifelong teacher, widely published columnist and writer ,poet-performer, environmentalist, and social justice activist. Roopali retired as Associate Professor of English from Delhi University. Her book The Twice Colonised: Women in African Literature is a seminal text gender studies and post-colonial literature. She is the co-editor of the poetry anthology In All the Spaces-Diverse Voices in Global Women’s Poetry (2020). Roopali is the Founder-President of YUVATI, that works for equity and justice for children from marginalized communities in India. Roopali holds a Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She graduated from the prestigious Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, and holds an M.A. and B.Ed. from Osmania University, Hyderabad.
