Gargi Gangopadhyay is a lecturer in English at Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Vivekananda Vidyabhavan. As an invited lecturer, she has taught children’s literature as part of M.A. courses at other institutions like Presidency and Lady Brabourne College. Her doctoral thesis engaged with children’s print culture in Bengal in the context of British imperialism. Under an Arts Research and Documentation grant from IFA, she has put together a public-domain web-resource for documentation of 19th C Bengali children’s books. Her current research interests include children’s books, history of childhood and studies in travel-writing. Besides an academic interest in childhood studies, she nurtures a passion in publishing for children, viewing picture and story books as powerful mediums for education and inspiration.