Professor
G.J.V.
PRASAD
PROFILE
G.J.V. Prasad is an academic, critic, novelist and poet who
obtained his BA, MA and MPhil degrees from the University of
Delhi and his PhD from JNU. Prasad has also been a Visiting
Professor at Grinnell College (2009), Secretary of Indian
Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
(2005 till date), and editor of JSL: the Journal of School of
Language, Literature & Culture Studies, JNU (2003 till date).
CURRENT RESEARCH
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Centre for English Studies
New Delhi - 110 067
India
E-mail:
[email protected]
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Website:
www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/gjvprasad
His areas of research interest include Indian English literature,
Translation Studies, Indian literatures, drama and performance,
and postcolonial literatures. In recent years he has taught
courses on Indian English literature, contemporary British
drama, modern European drama, translation theory and
practice. He has organized workshop courses in creative writing
and in modern poetry in the Masters programme. He has also
taught courses on partition narratives, literature and violence,
Indian literatures, comparative literature, translation, literature
and other media in MPhil/PhD programmes.
INTERZONES
Actively involved in the activities of the EMJD Interzones,
Prasad’s role in supervisory activities of the programme is in the
field of Postcolonial Studies, Indian writing in English,
translation and comparative literature, and Theatre and
Performance Studies.
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
As a creative writer, he has to his credit one novel, A Clean
Breast (1993), and a volume of poems, In Delhi without a Visa
(1996). As a critic, he has written or edited 10 books – the most
recent ones being Indian English and ‘Vernacular’ India (2010),
and Writing India, Writing English: Literature Language Location
(2011) – as well as more than 40 articles in reputed journals
and books. He is also an award-winning translator.