Bridging the Gaps

The book proceedings of the Two-Day International Conference on “Transformations and Transitions: Emerging Trends in Literature and Language Studies” organized on March 11th &12th 2024 at K L University, Vijayawada campus focused on the emerging trends in Language and Literature studies geared towards academics, professionals, research scholars, students, and general audience to publish their book chapters. Some of their themes were Blue humanities and Nautical fiction, Energy humanities, Pandemic Literature, Digital Humanities: Cyber Literature and Digital Media, Revisiting Indian poetics, Pain Studies and Trauma Studies, Intersectionality: gender, class, race and LGBT+ representation, Feminist histories: memory and trauma, Masculinity Studies, Translation and Diasporic literature, Kitchen literature, Multiculturalism and Diasporic perspectives, Revisiting the Mythologies, Ecofeminism & Ecocriticism and Green Cinema, Animal Studies, Zoo criticism and Phyto criticism, Green ELT, Latest trends in English Language Teaching, Digital Language Teaching and so on. I am grateful to all the contributors for their passion, dedication, and hard work in shaping this book with 30 book chapters on various emerging trends in language and literature studies. The anthology is divided into part I & II bifurcating Language and Literature studies. Hope this piece of scholarly articles helps the research scholars to excel in their learning platforms. About the Editors Dr. K. K. Sunalini, Associate Professor of English, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation is a Doctorate from Kakatiya University and a double Post Graduate from Sri Padmavathi Mahila Viswa Vidyalayam Tirupati and Kakatiya University, Warangal respectively. Dr. K. B. Glory teaches Englis at K. L. University, Guntur. She holds M.Phil degree on Common Wealth Literature and Ph.D on Asian American Literature from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh.