Ragini Mishra

Ragini Mishra is a research scholar in the Department of English at Banaras Hindu University. Her areas of interest are gender studies, folklore, and juvenile literature. Her work has been previously published in The Journal of International Women’s Studies, Café Dissensus and The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics.

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