Contributors

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016): Theories of Affect

Guest Editor – SNEJA GUNEW

SNEJA GUNEW:Professor Emerita at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She has published widely on multicultural postcolonial and feminist critical theory. Her books include Framing Marginality: Multicultural Literary Studies (1994) and Haunted Nations: The Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms (Routledge 2004).
R.S. SHARMA: Chief Editor of the Sahitya Akademi’s three-volume Ancient Indian Literature: An Anthology (2000). His published works include Poetic Style in Robert Frost (1981), Tale of the Glory-Bearer (1994), a verse translation of a medieval Kannada classic Yasodhara Carite by Janna, and Toward an Alternative Critical Discourse (2000). He has also edited a collection of essays on the Mahabharata for the Sahitya Akademi (2009).
SANIL V.: Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. His areas of interest include biological and social sciences, technology, art, violence and politics. He writes and publishes in Malayalam.
DINA AL-KASSIN: Teaches at the English Department, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice,University of British Columbia. She works on contemporary political subjectivation, sexuality and aesthetics.
PRIYA V.: Assistant Professor at Jain University, Bangalore. She is pursuing Ph.D. at the Institute of English, University of Kerala. Her research interests include gender, culture and performance studies and is currently working on her first book which is a recuperated history of the devadasis of Keralam.
VILASHINI COOPPAN: Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing (Stanford UP, 2009) and is working on a new book titled Race, Writing, and the Literary World System: Memories of Violence and the Making of Modernity.
SRINIVASA MURTHY: He received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Mainz, Germany. He is the Emeritus Faculty at California State University, Long Beach.
CAROLYN PEDWELL: Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Cultural Sociology at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent. She is the author of Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy (Palgrave, 2014) and Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetoric of Comparison (Routledge, 2010). She is also an editor of Feminist Theory.
MARGERY FEE: Professor at the University of British Columbia. She an Associate Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian English on Historical Principles (2nd online edition). She has published a book, Literary Land Claims: The Indian Land Question (Wilfred Laurier UP, 2015).
KIRAN KESHAVAMURTHY: Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. His Ph.D. was on gender and sexuality in modern Tamil literature from the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. His interests include gender and sexuality studies, caste studies and modern Indian literature.
NIKHIL GOVIND: Head of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities. His areas of interest are Indian literature and thought. He is the author of Between Love and Freedom: The Revolutionary in the Hindi Novel (Routledge, 2014).
S. SHARMA: Bilingual scholar and critic who specializes in the study of Sanskrit Aesthetics and literature in Malayalam He has published a treatise on Rasa theory titled Rasakairali and a monumental edition of Bhoja’s Sringaraprakasha. Dr. Sharma was associated with the Department of Malayalam, Kerala University as a Professor and Research Guide for almost three decades. Among his works, the noted ones are Kunchan Nambiar and his works (1978), Balarama Bharatam – Saraswati (1981), Swati Tirunal’s Life and Kritis (1985), The Royal Family of Travancore (1992), Mookapanchasati (2005) and Sri Sankara, the Poet (2005).
SANGEETHA MENON: Sangeetha Menon heads the Consciousness Studies Programme at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore. Her major area of research is in philosophy of psychology. Her latest books are Brain, Self and Consciousness: Explaining the Conspiracy of Experience and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self (Ed.)
HARIHARAN: Professor at the Institute of English, University of Kerala and Director of the UGC Area Study Centre for Canadian Studies. He has co-edited four books and has three translations to his credit.

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016): Women in the Indian Performance Tradition

Guest Editor – ARYA MADHAVAN

ARYA MADHAVAN :Senior Lecturer/ Programme Leader at the School of Fine & Performing Arts, College of Arts, University of Lincoln, U.K. She specializes in researching and writing on Indian Theatre, with particular reference to Kudiyattam, the oldest existing theatre form in the world and is a Kudiyattam performer with over twenty years of performance experience from both India and UK. Her research and writing focuses on the aesthetics and praxis of Kudiyattam, with an intention to develop new theoretical concepts derived from its practice.
DEEPSIKHA CHATTERJEE: Lecturer of Costume Design and Technology at Hunter College, CUNY where she enjoys teaching theatre and the practice of costuming to a diverse student body. Her research areas include costumes, film, makeup and masks from India and Asia.
CLAUDIA ORENSTEIN: Chair and Professor of Theatre at Hunter College, CUNY. Her books include The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance (co-editor), The World of Theatre: Tradition and Innovation (with Mira Felner), and Festive Revolutions: The Polities of Popular Theatre and the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
ANITA SINGH: Professor at the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Her areas of interest are Gender Studies and Performance Studies. Her recent book is Gender, Space and Resistance: Women and Theatre in India.
URMIMALA SARKAR MUNSI: Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her research interest are in gender and performance, documentation of living traditions, and performance as politics. Her publications include Engendering Performance: Indian Women Performers Searching for Identity (co-authored with B. Dutt, Sage publishers, 2010), Traversing Traditions: Celebrating Dance in India (co- edited with S. Burridge, Routledge, 2009), Dance: Transcending Borders (Edited, Tulika Books, 2008).
MARA MATTA: Teacher of Modern literatures of the Indian Subcontinent at ‘Sapienza’ Universita di Roma, Rome. She is a member of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) and of the Archive of Migrant Memories (AMM). Her current research focuses on indigenous literatures, cinemas and performing arts along/ across South Asian borderlands.
MADHURI DIXIT: Associate Professor at seizerPemraj Sarada College, Ahmednagar, India. She is presently a doctoral student of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and her research is on representation of women in Marathi theatre. Her academic interests include theatre studies, cultural studies, education, and gender and caste discourse. She has written articles and essays on films, cultural issues and Marathi theatre in Marathi newspapers and magazines. Her essay ‘Begum Barve: Embodiment of Subversive Fantasy” appeared in South Asian Film and Media (5.1, April 2013).
SUSAN SEIZER: Associate Professor of Anthropology and an Affiliate Faculty member of India Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies, and Folklore & Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research interests include performance studies, disability studies, stigma and its effects, humor in use, documentary, diasporic, & feminist film and ethnographic methods. Her first book Stigmas of the Tamil Stage: An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India (Duke UP 2005; Seagull Books 2007) won the A.K. Coomaraswamy Prize from the Association of Asian Studies in 2007.
KRISTEN RUDISILL: Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USA. She has a Ph.D. in Asian Studies from the University of Texas, Austin. Her research focuses on Indian theatre and dance.
LEAH LOWTHORP: College Fellow and Lecturer in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University. As part of her research, she studied and performed her arangettam in Nangiar Koothu, the female solo performance form of Kutiyattam Sanskrit theatre of Kerala state.

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017): Islamic Feminism

Guest Editor – MARGOT BADRAN-

MARGOT BADRAN Historian and Feminist Studies scholar specializing in the Middle East and Islamic world. She is presently a senior fellow at the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her research on feminism goes back to the 1960s in Egypt and continued in the 1970s. Her published works include Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt, Feminism in Islam and Secular and Religious Convergences and Feminism beyond East and West: New Gender Talk and Practice in Global Islam. She is currently working on a book on Islamic Feminism that will assess its thirty-year history and present developments.
RAJA RHOUNI: Associate Professor of Literature, Gender and Cultural Studies at Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco. She received her Doctorate in 2005 from the Cultural and Development Studies Program at Mohammad V University. She is the author of Secular and Islamic Feminist Critiques in the Work of Fatima Mernissi (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010).
AZZA BASARUDIN: Lecturer at the UCLA Department of Gender Studies and a Research Affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Her research interests include feminist studies in Islam, transnational/ postcolonial feminist theories, and feminist ethnography. Her first book Humanizing the Sacred: Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia was published by the University of Washington Press (2016).
GADIS ARIVIA: Retired Lecturer in Philosophy and Gender Studies at the University of Indonesia where she taught for more than 20 years. She founded the first feminist journal in Indonesia, Jurnal Perempuan, in 1996. Her books include Filsafat Berperspektif Feminis (Philosophy with a Feminist Perspective) 2003 and Feminisme Sebuah Kata Hati (Feminism from the Heart) 2006.

ZILKA SPAHIĆ ŠILJAK : She runs TPO Foundation Sarajevo and teaches at several universities in BiH and abroad. She has a Ph.D. in Gender Studies. Her published works include Shining Humanity — Life Stories of Women Peace builders in Bosnia and Herzegovina, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2014), Contesting Female, Feminist and Muslim Identities, Post-Socialist Contexts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo (2012), and Women Religion and Politics (2010). Her current research at Stanford University focuses on the intersection of leadership, gender and politics.
ZAKIA SOMAN: Founder of Centre for Peace Studies and co-founder of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), an NGO supporting Muslim women’s citizenship rights and gender justice in Islam. She is currently a petitioner before the Supreme Court calling for the abolition of triple talaq. Her major publications include Broken Promises; A Study on the Socio-Economic Status of Indian Muslims Seven Years Post Sachar (Centre for Peace Studies, 2014) and Socio-Economic Conditions of Muslims in India (Action Aid, 2006). Soman has been a faculty at the SJVM College of Gujarat University for over twenty-five years.
NOORJEHAN NIAZ: Co-founder of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan and a founding member of Ashana Trust. She has steered the process of preparing a draft of the Muslim Family Law through nationwide consultations and is a co-petitioner in a Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court demanding a legal ban on the practice of unilateral divorce and halala. Niaz holds a Ph.D in Sociology from the Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University. She has published Women’s Shariah Court-Muslim Women’s Quest for Justice (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 2016) and From Seclusion and Exclusion to Inclusion-Indian Muslim Women and their Initiative (2013).

FIRDOUZA WAGGIE: Senior Lecturer at Cape Town University of Technology and the Director of the Inter-professional Education Unit in the Faculty of Community and Health Sciences at the University of the Western Cape. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of the Western Cape. Her expertise and research areas include health professions education, community engagement and development, inter-professional education, service-learning and school health promotion.

YUMNAH HATTAS: She has been a development specialist for the last twenty years and is a consultant in gender, sexuality and HIV related projects, and health systems strengthening.

AMINA WADUD: Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies and Visiting Scholar at the Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, California. Her work focuses on critical reading of Islamic classical sources and the sacred text from a gender inclusive perspective.
NA’EEM JEENAH: Executive Director of the Afro-Middle East Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is currently working on a Ph.D. on political Islam. He lectured in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.
HUSEIN MUHAMMAD: He founded the NGO Puan Amal Hayati. He is the author of numerous books including Women’s Fiqh: A Kyai’s Reflection on Religion and Gender Discourse (2005).
ESRA ÖZCAN: She received her Ph.D. in Communication Science from Jacobs University Bremen in Germany. She is a contributor to the alternative news network, Bianet, in Turkey. Her recent publications include She is the author of the forthcoming book Mainstreaming the Headscarf: Islamic Politics and in the Turkish Media (Tauris, 2018).
ZIBA MIR-HOSSEINI: She is currently a Professorial Research Associate at the Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, University of London. Ziba is a Legal anthropologist specializing in Islamic law, gender and development and is a founding member of the Musawah Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family. She has co-directed two award-winning feature-length documentary films on Iran: Divorce Iranian Style (1998) and Runaway (2001). She has co- edited the books Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law: Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition (I. B. Tauris, 2013) and Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition (Oneworld 2015). In 2015, she received the American Academy of Religion’s Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion.
FARHANA ISMAIL: Community activist and an academic with a focus on gender equality and youth development. Farhana has participated in the anti-apartheid activism of the progressive Muslim movement in South Africa, including women-led gender rights struggles. She has written on the non-recognition Of Muslim marriages in South Africa.

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2017): Creative Writing from the Islamic World

Guest Editor – VARSHA BASHEER

VARSHA BASHEER: Affiliated Faculty (Visiting Fellow) with the IRDP (Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project) run by the Centre for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
HATEM BAZIAN: Lecturer in the Departments of Near Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College. Hatem is also the founder and National Chair of American Muslims for Palestine and the Director of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the Center for Race and Gender, a research unit dedicated to the systematic study of Othering Islam and Muslims.
MUHAMMED SHAH S.: M.Phil. Scholar in Comparative Literature at the University of Hyderabad. He is working on the implications of the political in various theological discourses,with particular focus on antagonism and soverignity in the works of Abul A’ala Maududi.
HEBA AHMED: Ph.D. Student at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She had worked on the topic ‘Remembering Gujarat 2002: Contending Memories and the Politics of Violence’ for her M. Phil. She has also been a part of YFDA, an independent group of Muslim students in JNU, since its formation
PARVEENA AHANGER: Founder and Chairperson of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) in Indian Administered Kashmir founded in 1995 to provide support and mobilize family members of missing persons due to the numerous instances of involuntary and enforced disappearances in Kashmir. Her efforts attained global recognition on 10 July 2005 when she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
KHANUM SHAIKH: Assistant Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at California State University, Northridge. She is particularly interested in the study of gender and/in Muslim communities.

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018): Poems on Resistance

SREEDEVI K. NAIR: Former Associate Professor and Head at the Department of English, NSS College for Women, Neeramankara, Thiruvananthapuram.
DEVIKA: Associate Professor and Head, Department of English, H.H.M.S.P.B. N.S.S. College for Women, Neeramankara, Thiruvananthapuram. She is a research guide at the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
VARSHA BASHEER: Affiliated Faculty (Visiting Fellow) with the IRDP (Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project) run by the Centre for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
KUKKU XAVIER: Assistant Professor with the Department of English, All Saints’ College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Her areas of interest include, Subnationalism, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Cultural Modernities.
HEMA NAIR R.: She teaches English at the N.S.S. College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram and Associate Editor at Samyukta: A Journal of Gender and Culture. She was a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Visiting Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her doctoral work was on Doris Lessing.

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2018): Poems on Resistance

SWETHA ANTONY
SHIMI S.: Shimi S is a Post-Graduate student of English Language and Literature at All Saints’ College, Thiruvananthapuram. She is interested in body politics, narratives of disabilities and Indian Writing in English. She has presented papers at various conferences and is planning her research in the area of body affirmation.
AKSHAY A.S. : Akshay A.S. is a Post-Graduate student of English Language and Literature at Mahatma Gandhi College, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. He is a performance poet and graphic artist who wishes to meld the two genres and create exciting ideas. He has thought deeply about poetry and poetics and has presented papers at various conferences.
SONYA J. NAIR: Assistant Professor of English at the P.G. and Research Department of English, All Saints’ College, Thiruvananthapuram
Y. SAMRA FUAD: Post-Graduate student of English at the P.G. and Research Department of English, All Saints’ College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019): Literature and Literariness

MAUSUMI SEN BHATTACHARJEE: Associate Professor of English at the Sanskrit College and University, Kolkata, India.
SHIMI SHAJAN A.: Post Graduate student of English at the P.G. and Research Department of English, All Saints’ College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
ATHIRA A.R.: Post Graduate student of English at the P.G. and Research Department of English, All Saints’ College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
ARSHA SUBBI: Ph.D. Research Scholar at the Department of English and Languages, Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, Kochi Campus, India.
RAJ SREE M. S.: Assistant Professor at the P.G. and Research Department of English, All Saints’ College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
GOWRI MEENAKSHI S.R.: Post Graduate student of English at the P.G. and Research Department of English, All Saints’ College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
GOPIKA GOPAN: Post Graduate student of English at the P.G. and Research Department of English, All Saints’ College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
SAMRA FUAD: Post-Graduate student of English at the P.G. and Research Department of English, All Saints’ College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
HUZAIFA PANDIT: Assistant Professor, LPU, Punjab, India.
SREYA MIRIAM SHAJI: Post Graduate student of English at the P.G. and Research Department of English, All Saints’ College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2019): Contemporary Literatures

ASHA KRISHNAN: Assistant Professor of English at H.H.M.S.P.B. N.S.S. College for Women, Neeramankara, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She is an award-winning creative writer.
ARYA B.: Post-Graduate in English Language and Literature from H.H.M.S.P.B. N.S.S. College for Women, Neeramankara, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
PRASEEDHA G.: Assistant Professor and Research Guide at the P.G. Department of English, Mercy College, Palakkad, Kerala.
VIDYA RAJAGOPAL: Associate Professor and Head, Department of English, Mahatma Gandhi College, Thiruvananthapuram. She is a research guide of the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
CHANDRALEKHA K.R.: Assistant Professor of English, Saraswathi College of Arts and Science, Vilappil, Thiruvananthapuram.
LAKSHMI MENON: Assistant Professor of English at VTMNSS College, Dhanuvachapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
P. REMYA: Assistant Professor of English at G.T.N Arts College, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu.
B. LATHA: Doctoral student at the Research Department of English, Scott Christian College, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu.
SANGEETHA VARMA: Assistant Professor of English at NSS College, Ottapalam, Kerala.
DEVIKA: Associate Professor and Head, Department of English, H.H.M.S.P.B. N.S.S. College for Women, Neeramankara, Thiruvananthapuram. She is a research guide at the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
MUHSINA N.: M.Phil. Scholar at the Institute of English, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2020): Reading Thathri Narratives

Guest Editors- SREEKUMAR P.K. and PRIYA JOSE K.

SREEKUMAR P.K.: Assistant Professor of English at Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam. He is a prominent critic in cultural studies who has published extensively in English and in Malayalam.
PRIYA JOSE K.: Assistant Professor of English, Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam. She has translated from Malayalam into English and vice versa and also published widely.
SATHEESH K.V. :Assistant Professor of English at Government College, Tripunithura. He has 14 years of experience in teaching PG classes. His areas of interest include Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Film Studies.
REENA NAIR: Assistant Professor of English at Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam. She has been working in various colleges for the past 18 years. She has published a few articles and coauthored the book Fundamentals of English. She is currently pursuing research in graphic writing.
MATHEW A. VARGHESE: Assistant Professor at the School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala.
SUJA T.V.:Assistant Professor of English, Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam.
A. IBRAHIM: Manager of the Reserve Bank of India, Chennai, Tamilnadu.
ALPHONSA C.A.: Assistant Professor of English at Mar Athanasius College, Kothamangalam.
OLAPPAMANNA SREEDEVI: Olappamanna Sreedevi is the daughter of Cherppu Chittoor Kunjan Namboothirippad, an MLA of Cochin and the wife of the noted poet Olappamanna Subramanian Namboothirippad. She has written many articles.
ROHINI NAIR : She retired as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English, Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam. She was a member of the Board of Studies in English, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
MADHU IRAVANKARA: Former Professor of Chemistry at Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, and a film-maker.
LAKSHMI S.:Assistant Professor, Department of English, Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam, Kerala.
R. GRAMAPRAKASH: Prolific author and writer.
M. SHEEBA: Associate Professor of History at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala
BHASKARANUNNI: Historian and Malayalam and literary critic.
ANITHA S.: Assistant Professor of English at Government College, Tripunithura. She is also a translator.
S. MANOJKUMAR: Assistant Professor of History, C. Achutha Menon Government College, Trissur, Kerala.

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2020): Literature and Popular Culture

LAKSHMI B.: Assistant Professor of English at H.H.M.S.P.B. N.S.S. College for Women, Neeramankara, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She is doing pioneering work in Blue Humanities and has several publications to her credit.
FARAH ZACHARIAH: Works as an officer of the Indian Revenue Service. Her doctoral study was on the hermeneutics of photographs.
PREETI KALRA: Research fellow at the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, University of Delhi. Her areas of interest range from language studies to gender politics and performance studies.
ANNU SABU PALATHINGAL: Content creator and digital marketing specialist. She is interested in researching the representation of ethnic identities in films and literature.
SAHIL RATHOD: Masters Degree Holder in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Sussex. He focuses on exploring the ambiguity of cultural practices and representation in films and pop culture.
ANDREW GEORGE KORAH: Ph.D. Scholar working on his doctoral research on Video Game studies.
PRASIDA P.: Assistant Professor. Her doctoral study was on Harry Potter and she has published several articles on the iconic series
BASIL THOMAS: Assistant Professor of English at Christian College, Chengannur. His research interests centre on popular culture with special reference to the study of cartoons.
KRISHNAN NAMBOOTHIRI: Associate Professor at S.D. College, Alappuzha, Kerala. His interests range from Indian Writing in English to Ecocriticism.
TEENA ANTONY: Independent researcher. Her areas of interest include Kerala history, gender studies and cultural studies. She has been working on Malayali women’s educational history for the past few years. Teena works as a freelance thesis editor and content writer.

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2021): Life Writing

Guest Editor: Kukku Xavier

KUKKU XAVIER: Assistant Professor with the Department of English, All Saints’ College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Her areas of interest include, Subnationalism, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Cultural Modernities.
SRIDHAR: Teaches English at the University of Hyderabad. Sridhar has been doing collaborative work in translation with Alladi Uma for several years.
SARABJEET DHODY NATESAN: Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences, Krea University. Her teaching interests are focused on Macroeconomics, International Economics, and Public Policy. Her research works intersect economics and public policy implementation. Her current research is on the ‘Bazaars of Post-Partition India’ and ‘The Economics of Religion’.

MEENAKSHI MALHOTRA: Associate Professor of English at Hansraj College, Delhi University. She has edited Representing the Self and Claiming the I. She has been part of curriculum development teams with several universities, a consultant for school textbooks and visiting faculty at Grinnell College, Iowa in 2019
HENA SARKAR
PAROMITA BOSE Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the Ecole Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India. For her Doctoral Thesis, at the University of Hyderabad, she worked on the Social History of Dance in India. Her areas of research and interest are Women’s Writing, Indian Writing in English and Translation, Children’s Literature, Cultural and Urban Studies. In the last few years, she has been developing methodologies to help aid teaching and learning of Humanities in an Engineering classroom.
SINDHURA DUTTA
AMRITA AJAY
SHIKHA SINGH
MARK DESTEPHANO
SHAYANTANI DAS:Assistant Professor at Hindu College, University of Delhi. Her areas of research include prison writing, life writing, and translation studies.

CHITRA V.R. Assistant Professor in the PG Department of English &Research Centre, University College, Thiruvananthapuram. Her areas of interest are related to Indian Writing in English, Environmental Humanities, Digital Humanities, Urban Studies and Human Rights Literature.

PREETI KUMAR
VAIBHAV DWIVEDI

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2021): Peace and Education

Guest Editor: Parvati Menon

PARVATI MENON :Curriculum developer and teacher trainer currently employed as a Senior Curriculum Architect at LEAD, Mumbai. She has collaborated with the Kerala State Government and the University of Leeds, UK, to integrate tribal art forms with the school curricula.
DALE T. SNAUWAERT: Professor of Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education and Peace Studies at Judith Herb College of Education, Ohio, USA. He is also the Editor ofIn Factis Pax: Journal of Peace Education and Social Justice.
DAWN D. BENNETT-ALEXANDER: Emerita Associate Professor of Employment Law and Legal Studies at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business in the US and founder of Practical Diversity LLC, consulting on issues of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging. A lawyer, academic and consultant whose specialty is employment discrimination, diversity and Inclusion, she has been dealing with diversity issues since 1982 and co-authors the leading Employment Law textbook in the US that created the discipline. She is the recipient of over 60 awards and recognitions and the University of Georgia established the endowed Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander Inclusive Community Award upon her retirement in February 2021 in honour of her work in diversity & inclusion.
URVASHI SABU: Associate Professor in the Department of English, PGDAV College, Delhi University Delhi. Her monograph Women, Literature, and Society: Discovering Pakistani Women Poets was published in March 2020. She has published research papers, as well as poetry and prose translations in numerous national and international journals, books, and anthologies. Her areas of interest are translation, drama, poetry, social media studies, and environmental conservation.
KRISHNA KUMAR: Former Director of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi. One of the major educationalists of India, Professor Krishna Kumar has authored several important books on Peace Education.
DANIELA ROMERO-AMAYA: Postdoctoral Fellow in the International and Comparative Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her scholarly work is related to history and citizenship education in conflict-affected contexts,with emphasis on the interplay between education and transitional justice measures. Her research engages with youth perspectives and decisions concerning the legacies of armed conflict and their daily navigation of social life.
CANDICE C. CARTER: Educational researcher and consultant in the USA. Her relevant books include Conflict Resolution and Peace Education: Transformations Across Disciplines (2010) thatillustrates peace education across university programs; Peace Philosophy in Action, about applied theories in peace pursuits around the world; Youth Literature for Peace Education (2014) that describes literacy development with recent literature for children; Social Education for Peace: Foundations, Curriculum, and Instruction for Visionary Learning which emphasizes the crucial skill of envisioning along with knowledge of peace history; and Teaching and Learning for Comprehensive Citizenship: Global Perspectives on Peace Education (2021) with research on formal and non-formal instruction worldwide.
ABIDA BEGUM : Faculty member at the Professional Development Center North (PDCN), Aga Khan University, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan. She is associated with teacher education and research initiatives in this remote region and has associated herself with many educational projects.
SAIMA KARAM: Saima Karam is an Instructor of Science Education at the Professional Development Centre North of Aga Khan University-Institute for Educational Development, Pakistan.
SHUEB SULTAN: Instructor at the Professional Development Centre North of Aga Khan University-Institute for Educational Development, Pakistan in the School improvement programme. He has been associated with the Aga Khan University for the last three years. He has also the experience of working with Aga Khan Education Pakistan as a school improvement specialist.

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2022): Beginnings of Gender Discourses in Modern Keralam: Revisiting Early Women’s Magazines

Guest Editor – SHALINI M.

SHALINI M.: Assistant Professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Central University of Kerala, India. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Hyderabad, India. Her areas of specialization are Comparative Literature and Women and Gender Studies. Her current work is in the area of life writing.
TEENA ANTONY: Independent researcher. Her areas of interest include Kerala history, gender studies and cultural studies. She has been working on Malayali women’s educational history for the past few years. Teena works as a freelance thesis editor and content writer.
ANA KARTHIKA: Ph.D. Scholar in Social Studies at the Makerere Institute of Social Research. Her research interest spans decolonizing the history of sexuality, epistemic study of body as colonial archive, and gender and feminist thoughts in colonial and postcolonial societies, especially South Asia.
ROOPA PHILIP: Lecturer at the Post- Graduate Department of English, Jyoti Nivas College. The topic of her PhD thesis was ‘An Examination of Select Feminist Writings in Malayalam in the Late Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century.’
ASHWINI: An independent researcher. Her research interests include gender, modernity and sartorial reforms.
SREEBITHA P.V.: Associate Professor and Head of Department of English, Kannur University. She holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Hyderabad which was titled ‘The Making of ‘Ezhava’:Caste, Communities and Gender among North Malabar Thiyyas and Thiruvithamkoor Ezhavas.’
WHYNI GOPI: Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Assumption College (Autonomous), Changanassery. Her research areas include family history, local and social history.
RESHMA P.K.: M.Phil. Scholar at the Institute of English, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.
BINUMOL ABRAHAM: Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Assumption College,Changanassery. Her areas of research include history of modernity, cultural and literary history, gender studies, postcolonial studies, and history of mentalities.

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2022): General

KOSHY THARAKAN
PAYEL CHATTOPADHYAY MUKHERJEE
SANTHINI M.A.
SUPARNA ROY
DEEPTI PARANGOT: Editorial Assistant, H & C Publications, Thrissur.
SASIDHARAN: Marxist Historian, retd. as Professor from the department of Political Science, Sree Narayana College, Kollam. He was the Head of the Post graduate department and Research Centre of Political Science. He has written extensively on the emergence of the communist movement in Kerala in consonance with the social reform movements. His studies based on original research has deepened our understanding of the provenance of the communist movement in the state
PYARI SURADH