डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्‍वविद्यालय दिल्ली
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Established by The Government of NCT of Delhi

• PhD – Department of English, University of Hyderabad, 2004
•  MPhil- Department of English, University of Hyderabad, 1995
•  MA- Department of English, University of Calicut, 1993
•  BA, Department of English, University of Calicut, 1991 

Academic Experience

• 2025 - (With Menon, Krishna, and Sumangala Damodaran).  “All we imagine as work: The many lives of the tenacious, transnational Malayali nurse.”Scroll, 5-3-2025.  https://scroll.in/article/1079192/all-we-imagine-as-work-the-many-lives-of-the-tenacious-transnational-malayali-nurse
• 2025 - “Sneham Munnottu Nayikkunnu.”  Interview with Sreedevi Kakkad. Mukkutti:  Women’s Digital Magazine.   6: 5, February, 2025.  pp: 21-27. https://online.fliphtml5.com/ewyiw/aqcr/#p=1
• 2024 - (With Priyanka Jha).  “Introduction: Thinking the World through Gender: Indian Women Philosophers and Thinkers”Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.  3: 2, 2024, pp: 101-111.https://brill.com/view/journals/jhwp/3/2/jhwp.3.issue-2.xml
• 2024- (With Mitali Mishra and Krishna Menon) “Interpreting the Buried Truth:  Unraveling the Figure of the “Murdering Mother” on Popular OTT Platform through a Feminist Motherhood Studies Perspective.  Chalachitra Sameeksha.  8: 10, 2024. 78-91. ISSN: 258
• 2024 - (With Krishna Menon and Srishti Srivastava). “Bhakton ko Taiyyar Karne ki Pahal.” Samyantar.  56: 5, 2024.  34-39  ISSN- 2249-0469. UGC CARE List journal.
• 2024 - (With Krishna Menon). “The Hema Moment gives not only ‘Stars’ but also the ‘Extras’ a Voice.” In The Express Opinion. Indian Express.28-August-2024. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/hema-moment-gives-stars-extras-voice-9537810/
• 2021- (With Mamatha Karollil). “Paishachika Streetvam Yakshi Roopathil: Malayaladeshathu ninnum Chila Prathinidhaanangal.” Paithruka Vimarsham. 3. 1, 2021: 56-70. UGC CARE List journal. 
• 2022 - (With Sutanuka Bhattacharya / Suto). (3-12-2022). “DAY NINE: Migration and Violence:  The Question of trans* masculine persons in India.”  In 16 Day Blogathon: 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence.  November 25th to December 10th.  https://16daysblogathon.blog/2022/12/03/day-nine-migration-and-violence-the-question-of-trans-masculine-persons-in-india/
• 2016 -  “Remembering Rehana Sultana.”  (2016) In  Rehana Sultana:  Memories.in Fathima, Kaneez and Lateef Mohammed Khan (Eds). In Hyderabad: Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee. (PP: 16-17). 
• 2009 - “Avadhoota: Kamala/Amy/Mdhavikutty/Surayya.”  (The Lonely Prophet.”).  Risala.  19-06-2009. (P: 18).  
• 2005 - “Opposing Origins:  Tribal and Dominant Identities in the Mythological Renderings of Thirunelli Temple.” Tapasam Journal of Kerala Studies.  1. 2, 2005:  (pp: 274-83).
• 2004 - "Surayya Uyarthunna Chodyangal."  In Keraleeyam.  5. 2. Thrissur, 2002. 
• 2004 - "Paristhika-Streepaksha Chintakal:  Streekale Engine Badhikkunnu?"  Vaidyashastram.  March, 2004.  (pp: 23-25).
• 2004 - "Making the Nation, Hindu and Outside Hindu:  Tribe in the Early Census Reports."  Samyukta.  4. 2, 2004.
• 2002 - (With K.P. Girija). "Streekalute Shareerangalil Yudham."  Madhyamam.  May, 2002. (pp: 22-24).
• 2001 - "Chugtai Uninterrupted." Review of Ismat Chugtai's My Friend, My Enemy:  Essays, Reminiscences, Portraits. Tahira Naqvi (trans.)  Kali for Women. 2001.  in Deccan Chronicle.  17-06-2001.
• 2001- "Boys, Beasts and Mountains."  Review of Ruskin Bond's Treasury of Stories for Children.  Viking, 2000. in Deccan Chronicle. 21-01-2001. 
• 2001 - "Hindi's Troubled Story."  Alok Rai.  Hindi Nationalism.  Orient Longman, 2001.  in Deccan Chronicle, 29-04-2001.  
• 2000 - (With Sharmila Sreekumar as Joint Action Committee).  "Negotiating Caste and Gender:  A Struggle in Hyderabad Central University."Economic and Political Weekly.  Vol: XXXV. 43 &44, 2000 (pp; 3845-3848).
• 1992 - Translation of "Mezhukuthiri Samayam." by Innokenty Annensky.  Sahitya Niroopanam.  Book 11, April, 1992.(Malayalam Translation).

2021. 2024 -“Setting the Agenda.”  4th December, 2024.  For Tracing Modes of Gendered Thinking:  Ideation and Philosophy from the Global South (With Special Reference to India), December 4th to 6th, 2024.  In collaboration with Banaras Hindu University, History of Women Philosophers and Thinkers and Indian Council of Social Science Research,  K.N. Udupa Auditorium, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
2022. 2024“Conference Report.”  6th December, 2024.  For Tracing Modes of Gendered Thinking:  Ideation and Philosophy from the Global South (With Special Reference to India), December 4th to 6th, 2024.  In collaboration with Banaras Hindu University, History of Women Philosophers and Thinkers and Indian Council of Social Science Research,  Vedic Vigyan Kendra, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. 
2023. 2023 - Gender ECHO for Equity and Empowerment: Towards Gender Justice”- with teachers and students in schools of India.”  META ECHO: 2023 Global Conference.  September 18th-21st, 2023.  On 18-September-2023,  Albuquerque, NM. (Online). 
2024. 2022 - “Agential Woman vs “Criminal” Lower Class Aggressor:  Problems of Framing Violence against Women in Indian Gender Studies Classrooms.”Panel discussion: Gender equality in HE teaching in India.  Organised by “Gender on the Higher Education Learning Agenda Internationally: International online conference, 20th-21st January 2022. ” 20/1/2022.  https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/99950758819. 
2025. 2021 -  “Connections and Contradictions with the Affective and the Political: Memories of Childhood as Pedagogic Technique in a Gender Studies Classroom.”  Spinning the Sticky Threads of Childhood Memories: From Cold War to Anthropocene (Socialism, Capitalism, and Childhood: Material Lives and Mutual Imaginations - Neoliberal Affects and Pedagogy Session Atlanta Hub), https://spinning-the-sticky-threads-of-childhood-memories-from-cold-war.in.howspace.com/atlanta-programme Kone Foundation, University of Debrecen, Universitat Bonn, Berlin University and Tampere University, 20-21 October 2021, 21-October, 2021.  (Conducted in a Hybrid mode online and in Atlanta).
2026. 2019 - “Threatened Laughter?  Modernity and Humour in the Nambudiri Jokes, Malabar, South India.”  Literary Commons: Comparative Frames. Ambedkar University: International Conference, February 19 & 20, 2019.  Presented on February 20th.

International

• 2013-2014 - The World of India’s Girls (WINGS):  A Status Report.  (Along with Bindhulakshmi P, Meena Gopal, Nandini Manjrekar, Monica Sakhrani and Zeba Imam). New Delhi: Save the Children, June-2013 to  October 2014. (Rs. 25 Lakhs), Save the Children funded project, Report Submitted and published.
• 2017-2020  Investigator, UGC-UKIERI Collaborative Research Grant AUD- University of Edinburgh Project: “Teaching Feminisms, Transforming Lives: Questions of Identity, Pedagogy, and Violence in India and the UK”

National

• 2006 - “Home, Bitter Home:  A Study of Domestic Violence Cases in Hyderabad.”(Along with Rekha Pande, Mumtaz Fatima & Nuzhath Khatoon). (01-09-06 to 2-12-06) Centre for Women’s Studies Centre, MANUU.
• 2006 - “Remade Womanhoods, Refashioned Modernities:  The Construction of An-Nisa, an Early Twentieth Century Deccani women’s Magazine in Urdu.”  as part of the Centre for Women’s Studies Team along with Rekha Pande and Viqar Atiya ). (01-09-06 to 2-12-06). 
• 2006       - Women and HIV/AIDS in A.P (with Rekha Pande, Mumtaz Fatima, Viqar Atiya and Nuzhath Khatton) as part of CWS team. Centre for Women's Studies, MANUU. (01-09-06 to 2-12-06). 
• 2009-2010            - Sexualisation among Adolescent Women in Contemporary Kerala:  A Study based on Convent Schools in the Region. Charles Wallace Trust, through Centre for South Asian Studies, SOAS, London. 
• 2017 - 2018.  Project with Seed Money Grant Research Fund, ACPRM, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi.  “Threatened Laughter?  Modernity and Humour in the Nambudiri Jokes, Malabar, South India.”  (Report submitted).  (Rs.One Lakh only)