Dr. Rahatullah Khan is a Professor, since 01/01/2008, in the Dept. of English, AMU, Aligarh, UP. He received all his education from the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. Immediately after completing his M.A. (English) in Ist Division, he became lecturer in 1985. He was awarded the degrees of M. Phil. and Ph.D. on the poetry of Walter John de la Mare, an eminent Georgian poet, in 1987 and 1996-97 respectively. He has been the recipient of the UGC PG Merit Scholarship during M.A. and the JRF during M. Phil. He completed his Ph.D. as a teacher candidate. Dr. Rahatullah Khan was appointed Reader/Associate Professor in 1997. Since then he has been actively engaged in Post graduate teaching and research. His teaching assignments at the PG level includes, Modern Poetry, Post-Modern Poetry and Literary Criticism besides Indian English Poetry like those of Nissim Ezekiel, Kamla Das and Sarojini Naidu etc. His area of specialization is Early 20th Century Poetry with special emphasis on the Georgian Poetry. Besides two books and one monograph, Dr. Khan's papers/articles have been published in reputed journals like "The Aligarh Journal of English Studies", AMU, "Studies in Literature in English", Atlantic Publishers New Delhi, "Indian Ethos", Karnal (Haryana), "Readings", Aligarh and "The Journal of The Faculty of Arts", AMU, Aligarh. Five Ph.D and two M. Phil degrees have already been successfully awarded under his supervision till date, while four candidates are currently working for their Ph.D.