Ms. Dhara Chotai is Assistant Professor in English. She has obtained her M.A. Degree with First Class from Saurashtra University, Rajkot. She has also been awarded two Gold Medals and a Prize for securing the highest number of marks in M.A. She is UGC NET qualified. She has completed DIPLOME D ETUDES EN LANGUE FRANCAISE DELF A1 (NIVEAU A1) FIRST LEVEL course in French Language from Alliance Francaise, Ahmedabad in February 2008 and CCC (Certificate in Computing Concept) from Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University in April 2007.

She was a Project Fellow for two years in the UGC SAP/DRS Programme on “The 19th Century Indian Renaissance Literature with Special Reference to Gujarati, Hindi & English” in Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies, Saurashtra University, Rajkot. Prior to that, she was with Shri H. N. Shukla College of IT & Management for one year.

Her areas of interest are: Comparative Literature, Translation Studies, Biographical Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory 19th Century Indian Renaissance Literature, English Literature : Poetry, Elizabethan Literature : Shakespearean Drama, Indian Poetics

At present she is working on the 19th Century Gujarati and Indian English Biography. She has also participated in a number of National Seminars and National Translation Workshops.