Dr. P.G. Rama Rao (b.1935) retired from the P.G. Dept. of English, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, in 1995, after a long and distinguished innings as a teacher of English and American Literature.

A Fulbright Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor in the University of Massachusetts, he studied the Hemingway manuscripts in 1981-82 and 1993, taught the Hemingway course in the University of Massachusetts, and delivered lectures in several American universities. In 1986, on a British Council grant, he visited Oxford and Edinburgh universities, where he delivered a series of lectures. He participated in the MLA Convention and the Hemingway Conference in New York in 1981, and in the Second and Third International Hemingway Conferences in Italy (1986) and Austria (1988) respectively.

Among his publications are The Poetic Rapture (1963), Ernest Hemingway: A Study inNarrative Technique (1980), Narrative Technique in British and American Fiction (1986), The Critic’s Eye (1993), My Days in Tulasi Kshetra (2009& 2014), On the OtherSide of the Globe (2013), An Enduring Picture and Other Poems (2014) MyDivine Hippocrene(2015)and The Ocean and the Waves (2016).