ABOUT
Dr. Rohini Mokashi-Punekar is Professor in English and former Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. She is a translator and works on the interstices between literary history, political change and social interrogation. Besides several papers in books and journals, she is the author of On the Threshold: Songs of Chokhamela (Altamira Press 2005 and The Book Review Literary Trust 2002), Untouchable Saints: an Indian Phenomenon (Manohar 2005) which she co-edited with Eleanor Zelliot, and Vikram Seth: an Introduction (Cambridge University Press 2009). She is currently engaged in two translation projects. The first is an anthology of medieval Varkari poetry in translation, which will be published by Penguin in their Black Classics series. The second is a translation of Phule’s Tritiya Ratna which will be published by Orient Blackswan.
CONTACT
Email: rohini@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: +91 361 2582555 (O) / 2584455 (R)
