Chitra Panikkar

Professor Chitra Panikkar teaches at the Department of English, Bangalore University. After
her Ph.D work on James Joyce and Marcel Proust from the Department of English, Kerala
University, she worked as Resident Scholar in the James Joyce Foundation, Zurich,
Switzerland for a year. On her return to India, she worked as Lecturer in the Centre for
Comparative Literature in Hyderabad Central University for eight years, and as Reader in the
Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies in the same University for six years,
before she joined the Department of English, Bangalore University. Her areas of interest span
Literary and Cultural Theory, Translation Studies, and Indian Literatures. Joyce Studies being
her specialization, she has translated and published eight chapters of Joyce’s Ulysses into
Malayalam and continues to translate literary and critical texts from Malayalam into English
and vice versa while theorizing those practices. She has been on a fellowship of the Dept. of
Culture, Govt. of India for two years, and has been an Associate Fellow at the Indian Institute
of Advanced Study, Shimla. The last few years, as part of a research program sponsored by the
UGC, she has been consistently working on questions of Identity, and has published articles
that offer an interdisciplinary perspective on literary texts. Apart from her ongoing interest in
curricula revisions and syllabus-designing, she has been socially active on issues of Gender
and Caste.