Prasenjit Biswas is Reader in the Department of Philosophy at the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya. A Ph.D. in Philosophy from the North Eastern Hill University, he has been Reader, Assam University, Silchar (2004-05); Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Indian Institute of Guwahati, Guwahati (2003-04); Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (2001-03); and Lecturer at the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad (1998-2001).

He has authored The Post-modern Controversy: Understanding Richard Rorty, Jacques Derrida and Jurgen Habermas (Rawat, 2004) and co-authored Political Economy of Underdevelopment in North-East India (Akansha, 2004). He has co-edited Peace in India's Northeast: Meaning, Metaphor and Method (ICSSR-NERC and Regency, 2006). He has also published a number of papers in journals and contributed chapters to edited books.