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Sanju Thomas

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Affiliation

  • Associate Professor , School of Letters

Email

    sanju@aud.ac.in

Qualification

  • PhD, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Past Experience

  • Research Associate, Dr BR Ambedkar University Delhi: 2009-2010
  • Assistant Professor, English: 2010-2023
  • Associate Professor, English: 2023- Till Date

Area of Expertise

  • Translation studies, Politics of language, Indian literature, Literary Animal Studies, Malayalam literature and cinema

Awards

  • University Merit Scholarship while doing MA
  • AURPIS Good Researcher Award, 2024

Publications

Books

  • Ramachandran S (2003). Myriad Mirrors: Malayalam Women Writings, Srishti Publishers.
  • Ajitha.K. (2008). Kerala’s Naxalbari: Ajitha, the Memoirs of a Young Revolutionary, Tr. Sanju Ramachandran, Srishti Publishers.
     

Book Chapters

  • Thomas, S. (2017) Towards a Monolingual World: Indian English Fiction and Translations in India, In Olaf Immanuel Seel (ed.) Redefining Translation and Interpretation in Cultural Evolution. IGI Global: USA. 20-41.
  • Thomas, S. (2025). The Writer as Translator: Self translation in OV Vijayan’s The Legends of Khasak. In EV Ramakrishnan and K.C Muraleedharan (Eds) O.V. Vijayan: The Critical Indsider (pp.203-211). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003159322-39
  • Thomas, S. (2026).Translating the Self in Ajitha’s Ormakkurippukal: Contexts, Concerns and Challenges. In M Chaturvedi (Ed.) Life Writing and Translation: Indian Perspectives (pp 79-96). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003568049-8

Translations

  • Thomas, S. (2022) “Thakara”, Translator. In Someshwar Sati et al (Eds) Reclaiming the Disabled Subject: Representing disability in short fiction. Bloomsbury.
  • Thomas, S (2025) The Smell of News, Translator. In Nabanita Sengupta and Nishi Pulugurtha (Eds) Bandaged Moments, Niyogi Books.

Papers in Peer-reviewed journals

  • Thomas, S. (2014). “The Vantage Point of the Vanquished: Retelling of the Ramayana in Sarah Joseph’s The Vigil. The Criterion. 5:6. pp261-266
  • Thomas, S. (2016) The Moor for the Malayali Masses: A Study of Othello in Kathaprasangam. Multicultural Shakespeare.13(1). pp 105-116.DOI 10.1515/mstap-2016-0008
  • Thomas, S.(2019) “The Writer as Translator: Self-translation in OV Vijayan’s The Legends of Khasak.” Translation Today. 13:1. pp157-165. DOI 10.46623/tt
  • Thomas, S (2020). Translation as Solidarity. Setu Mag.
  • Thomas, S. (2020) “Converging Concerns, Diverging Destinies: A Reading of Lalithambika Antharjanam and K Saraswati Amma. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. Vol. 43, No. 3. pp 44-53.
  • Thomas, S. (2021). “Place versus People: The Hungry Tide and On the Banks of the Mayyazhi.” dialog. No.38.pp 292-358.
  • Thomas, S. (2022).  A World without Words: The Discourse on Sound and Silence in Ambai’s “A Red-necked Green Bird”. Drishti: the Sight. Volume XI, Issue II. pp 117-120.
  • Thomas, S. (2024). The Nation and its Dispossessed: A Reading of Sarah Joseph’s Budhini. Literary Voice. Volume I, Number 23. September 2024. pp 449-456
  • Thomas, S. (2024) “The God of Small Things and Othappu: the Scent of the Other Side.” Researcher: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Vol XX. No.1. pp125-133.
  • Thomas, S. (2024) “Translation Trending: Comparing recent trends in Indian English fiction and English translations of Bhasha fiction. Translation Today. Volume 18, Issue 1. 2024. pp64-80 (15) DOI: 10.46623/tt/2024.18.1.ar4

 

Seminar/Conferences

  • Thomas, S. (January 2016). Migration and Transmigration in Benyamin’s Goat Days. Paper presented at the national conference on Migration and Identity: The Urban Subject” organised by Department of English, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi.
  • Thomas, S. (September 2016). Disabling Normalcy: Thakara’s Journey from the ‘Abnormal’ to the ‘Normal’. Paper presented at the fifth IATIS Regional Workshop on “Translating Disability across Cultures: The Translation and Representation of Disability in the Modern Indian Short Story”, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  • Thomas, S. (July 2017). Marketing Chemmeen: A story of two translations. Paper presented at the “Asian Translation Traditions Conference 8” (ATT8), organised by SOAS, University of London.
  • Thomas, S. (March 2018). The Writer as Translator: Self-translation in O.V. Vijayan’s The Legends of Khasak. Paper Presented at the international conference, “Translation and knowledge society” organised by National Translation Mission, Mysore.
  • Thomas, S. (October 2018). Creative Writing and Translation: Do the Twain Meet?. Paper Presented in an International seminar on “Translation, Literature and India” organized by Centre for Korean Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  • Thomas, S.(March 2021) “Translating Women: Negotiations of Gender, Language and Culture.” Webinar on Translating Boundaries of Nation, Body and Cuture. Sacred Heart College, Chalakudy. 
  • Thomas, S. (May 2022). Is the Tide Turning?: The case of English Translations from Bhasha Fiction and Indian English Fiction. Online International Seminar on Translation as Reconstitution: Issues of Self, Canon, History and Memory in India. The English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad.
  • Thomas, S (March 2023). Translation and Women: Spaces of Negotiations. Women of the World International Conference, Alexandria University, Egypt.
  • Thomas, S. (December 2023) Women, Nature and Nation: The crisis of development in Sarah Joseph’s Budhini International Conference on “Crisis in/and South Asian Literature in English, Tezpur University, Assam.
  • Thomas, S. (January 2026) Narrating the Inner World: Lalithambika Antharjanam and Women’s Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century Malayalam Literature. Symposium on "Looking Back, Writing Women's History" organized by All India Women’s Conference, New Delhi
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