Dr. Sanjoy Kumar Mallik is presently Reader at the Department of History of Art, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati (Santiniketan). He is a graduate in Painting from Visva Bharati, and holds a post-graduate and a doctoral degree in Art History from the MSU, Baroda. His essays have appeared in art history journals Nandan (Visva Bharati), Bichitra (Rabindra Bharati Univ., Kolkata) and the Lalit Kala Contemporary. He has contributed modest sections to Indian art: an overview and Art and Visual Culture in India: 1857-2007 (both ed.Gayatri Sinha, 2004 & 2009 respectively).
