Chitra Panikkar
Dr. Chitra Panikkar recently retired as Senior Professor from the Dept of English, Bangalore University. She began her teaching career in the University of Hyderabad, where she taught at the Centre for Comparative Literature for eight years and at the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies for six years. Her Ph D thesis was on James Joyce and Marcel Proust after which she worked for a year at the James Joyce Foundation in Switzerland. Her research interests have spanned areas of translation, questions of identity, and illness narratives. She has also been socially active on issues of caste and gender.
