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amohan@iitj.ac.in
Anupama Mohan is an associate professor of English at the School of Liberal Arts at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. She is the author of Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures and the editor of a special issue of the open-access journal Postcolonial Text, titled “Maritime Transmodernities: Literatures of the Indian Ocean.” Her critical essays have been featured in international, peer-reviewed journals such as South Asian History and Culture, Asian Review of World History, University of Toronto Quarterly, Indian Theatre Journal, and Economic and Political Weekly. Mohan‘s debut novel Where Mayflies Live Forever (New Delhi: Picador India, 2022) was longlisted for the 2023 Book Prize in Fiction at the Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival and the Fiction Best First Book Prize at the Tata Literature Live! festival. Her collection of poetry, Twenty Odd Love Poems And Then Some, was published by Writers Workshop in 2008. She was the 2021 writer-in-residence at the Samyukta Research Foundation in Thiruvananthapuram, India, and is currently the editor of its blog, Samyukta Fiction.
RCC Research Project: Rich and Strange: New Perspectives on Indian Ocean Literatures
Selected Publications:
- “‘No One Heard Me!’: Sexual Self-Fashioning and the Child in ‘Lihāf.’” South Asian History and Culture 14, no. 4 (2023): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2022.2141258.
- “Transculturated Shakespeare: Malayalam Cinema and New Adaptive Modes.” Indian Theatre Journal 5, no. 1 (2021): 73–85. https://doi.org/10.1386/itj_00017_1.
- “The Lumpenproletariat and the Itinerary of a Concept: Some Literary Reflections.” Asian Review of World Histories 9, no. 2 (2021): 225–58. https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340094.
- “Geoffrey Bawa and Ludic Modernism.” Economic & Political Weekly 55, no. 46 (2020). https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/46/special-articles/geoffrey-bawa-and-ludic-modernism.html.
- “Maritime Transmodernities and the Ibis Trilogy.” Postcolonial Text 14, no. 3 and 4 (2019): 1–12. https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/2488.
- Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137031891.