Profile photo of Camellia Paul standing in front of the English Building on the Main Quad at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Camellia Paul is a PhD student in the Department of Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her MA degree in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, India. Camellia is also a creative writer and visual artist with her translation, fiction, and art regularly appearing in magazines, journals, and anthologies. She has presented award-winning research on “Bengal owlscapes” at an interdisciplinary conference in Chungbuk National University, South Korea. Her areas of research and publication include Comparative Literature, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, animal studies, myth and folklore, and Translational Studies.