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Swarnalatha Rangarajan is an Indian academic and writer, specialising in ecocriticism and ecological fiction. She has written a monograph on ecocriticism and has edited books and journals on ecocriticism and Ecosophy. She has published short stories, poetry, and one novel. She is a professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras.
Academic career[edit | edit source]
Rangarajan studied English at the University of Madras, receiving her MA in 1992 and her MPhil in 1993.[1] In 1999–2000, Rangarajan was a Fulbright pre-doctoral fellow at Harvard University.[2] She took her PhD at the University of Madras in 2002.[1][2]
She was Professor of English and Comparative Religions at the Department of Humanities in BITS Pilani.[citation needed]
She was Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge University in 2013.[2]
She has been a professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, since 2010.[1][2]
She is the founding editor of the Indian Journal of Ecocriticism (IJE) and served as a guest editor for special issues on Indian ecosophy for Canadian journal The Trumpeter.[2] She has published articles on ecocriticism in several journals.[2]
She has co-edited books including Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism (2014) and Ecocriticism of the Global South (2015).[3] In 2024, she co-edited The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities with Scott Slovic and Vidya Sarveswaran.[4][5]
Her monograph Ecocriticism: Big Ideas and Practical Solutions appeared in 2018.[3]
She co-translated Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior (Orient Blackswan, 2018) and co-edited a collection of interviews with contemporary women writers from Tamil Nadu, Lifescapes: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers from Tamil Nadu, in 2019.[6][7]
Writing career[edit | edit source]
Rangarajan's short fiction has been published in journals including South Asian Review, New Asian Writing, India Currents, Asia Writes, and Out of Print Magazine.[8][9] Her poetry has appeared in the collection All the Worlds Between (Yoda Press, 2017) and in Muse India.[6]
Her first novel, Final Instructions (Authorspress), was published in 2015.[10] It is inspired by the Bhopal disaster.[11]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Swarnalatha R". Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Rangarajan (25 July 2013). "Swarnalatha Rangarajan". University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Swarnalatha Rangarajan". Bloomsbury Publishing.
- ↑ Slovic, Scott; Rangarajan, Swarnalatha; Sarveswaran, Vidya, eds. (2024). The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350304543.
- ↑ Rosenthal, Debra J. (January 2023). "Book Review". Journal of Ecohumanism. 2 (1): 123–15. doi:10.33182/joe.v2i1.2932.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "About Swarnalatha Rangarajan". Out of Print Magazine. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
- ↑ "Swarnalatha Rangarajan". Women Unlimited. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
- ↑ Rangarajan, Swarnalatha (22 May 2012). "'In the Forests of Himmapan' by Swarnalatha Rangarajan (India)". New Asian Writing. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
- ↑ Rangarajan, Swarnalatha (24 March 2024). "The Twice-Born River". Out of Print Magazine. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
- ↑ "Professor at IIT-M Launches Novel on Bhopal Gas Tragedy". The New Indian Express. 3 Sep 2015. Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
- ↑ Sampath, Janani (30 June 2015). "Fiction out of real tragedy". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 29 October 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2025.