The campus being a closed door to the outsiders, and the inmates giving an impression of being in ivory towers with the pride of being equated to Gods intrigue many. Novels about campus and its functioning are always a subject of curiosity that attracts wide readership. This book explores the world of campuses as portrayed by a few novelists and concentrates particularly on Indian English Campus Fiction.

Dr. U. Gayathri Devi is Assistant Professor and Head, Department of English, Rajiv Gandhi Arts and Science College, Puducherry, India. With 16 years of teaching, she has a good exposure to the campus and its ways which has attracted her to come out with this book. Her area of specialization is literary criticism, feminism and Indian English Literature. She has to her credit a number of research articles published in peer reviewed journals and books.