Dr.Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry

University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar. She was recognised as an Inspired Teacher for The President of India’s In-

residence Program at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi in June 2015. She has been largely interested in areas of

literatures of margins, studies of violence, trauma, and women studies. She has also been actively engaged in

Comparative Studies and Translations from Punjabi into English. She is a member of the Global Guru Granth Sahib

Translation project initiated through a collaboration of Panjab Digital Library, Chandigarh and Sikh Research

Institute, USA. Her recent work has been on violence studies engaging with discourses on the 1984 anti-Sikh

carnage in Delhi. She is an editor of Black November: Writings on Anti-Sikh Massacres of 1984 and the Aftermath

(2019); Patrick White: Critical Issues (2014); co-editor of Violence, Subversion and Recovery: Women Writers from

the Sub-continent and Around (2019, with Rachel Bari) and the author of Texting the Scripture: Sri Guru Granth

Sahib and the Visionary Poetics of Patrick White (2016). Her collection of poems is Forbidden Button and Other

Poems (Signorina Publications, 2020)

Dr. Chaudhry also engages in conducting talks on women concerns, well-being and mindfulness. She

firmly believes that in a world that is full of stress and innumerable pressures, there is an innate energy within

people. She engages in discourses on various aspects of spirituality, learnings from Guru Granth Sahib, and real-life

memoirs. She has delivered lectures in various institutions and different countries like Taiwan, Singapore,

Australia, America, Pakistan, United Kingdom, and Spain.

4. Area of Interests/Specialization – Gender Studies, Literatures from the Margins, Studies related to

Violence, Trauma, and Resilience, Partition Studies, Australian and Indian Literatures, and Translations

5. Email id: ishmeet@cug.ac.in

6. Mobile no. (optional): +91 9974092042

 

Achievements:

 

Selected as an “Inspired Teacher” for President of India’s seven-day in-residence programme at

Rashtrapati Bhawan, Delhi from June 6 –June 12, 2015. Represented Central University of Gujarat,

Gandhinagar.

Associate Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. 2016-2019

Awarded an MHRD approved 20-Hour course under the Global Initiative of Academic Network (GIAN)

on “Marginality and Literature: Text, Context and the Emerging Perspective” 22nd Aug, 2016 to 2nd

Sept, 2016 with Prof. Tony da Silva, Univ. of Tasmania at Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar.

Awarded a field visit on the International Travel Grant ICSSR to Australia to interview

prominent Australian Aboriginal Writers in Nov 2016

Team member Global Guru Granth Sahib Translation project initiated through collaboration of Panjab

Digital Library, Chandigarh and Sikh Research Institute, USA since 2018.

 

Publications:

Books: 9

Book Chapters: 11

Journal Articles: 18

Books (Selected):

2020. Seeking Nanak: Commemorating the 551 st Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev ji. Edu Sikh

and Norton Publications: Mumbai and Chennai. ISBN 978-1-63806-652-1

2020. The Forbidden Button & Other Poems: Delhi: Signorina Publications. ISBN978-81-943228-9-

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2019. Black November: Writings on the Sikh Massacres of 1984 and Aftermath. Speaking Tiger

Publishing: Delhi. ISBN 978-93-89231-47-2

2019. Rachel Bari, Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry (ed.) Violence, Subversion and Recovery: Women

Writers from the Sub-Continent and Around. (A Literary Confluence of Essays, Poems and Short

Stories). Himalaya Publishers: Mumbai. ISBN 978-93-5367-467-0

2018. Ezaj, Bushra. Dream Poems: Bushra Ejaz’s Selected Poems in Translation. Trans. Ishmeet

Kaur Chaudhry. New Delhi: Authorspress

2016. Texting the Scripture: Sri Guru Granth Sahib and Visionary Poetics of Patrick White: Goa:

Cinnamon Teal. ISBN 978-93-85523-83-0 


2014. Patrick White: Critical Issues. Atlantic Publishers: Delhi. ISBN 978-81-269-1899-7

Research Articles in Peer-reviewed, UGC Care or Scopus Listed Journals:

 

2021: A Rare Semblance of Culture, Music and Mystery’ Book Review: ‘Raagam, Taanam, Pallavi- A Lalli Mystery’ by

Kalpana Swaminathan. Muse India, Issue 96

2021: Journey: A Memoir, 1947 Muse India, Issue 97

2021: Mapping the Dalit Woman’s Experience: An Exploration into Violence And Violation Of Women Rights In Harish

Mangalam’s Gujarati Dalit Novel Tirad in Gap Bodhi Taru A Global Journal Of Humanities.

2020: ‘Folk Songs, Language and Community Concerns among Adivasi Communities.’ Setu: A Bilingual and Peer-

Reviewed Journal of Literature, Arts and Culture

2020: ‘Waging A War of Co-Existence: An Epic Saga of Life’ Muse India: The Literary Journal. Vasant Ritu Spring_, Issue

No. 90

2019: ‘Multi-Voices: Multiculturalism in Australian Poetry’ in Indian Journal of Australian Studies, 2019 Special Issue

2017: ‘Religious Intolerance and Cinematic Representations: A Study of Selected Short- Films on the 1984 anti- Sikh

Pogrom in India.’ Indi@logs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, Barcelona Vol 4 p. 63-78

2017: Voicing Resistance, Transcending Boundaries: Reading “My Mother India” Studies in Humanities and Social

Sciences. Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. Editor: Arpita Mitra V ol. XXIV , Number 1, P .134- 148

2017: ‘Reading the Country Space: Nature and Unity in Malouf’s An Imaginary Life and Winton’s Shallows’ The

Internation al Quarterly Journal: Horizons of Holistic Education: Peer Reviewed. Children’s University, Gandhinagar, Vol

4, Issues 1&2, January- June, 2017.

2017: ‘Then and Now: From Undivided India into a Divided Present.’ Setu: Billingual and Peer- Reviewed Monthly

Journal, Pittsburg, USA Vol 2, Issue 3

2016: Narrating the Experience: Oral Histories and Testimonies of the 1984 anti- Sikh Carnage Victims in Journal of Sikh

and Punjab Studies; Vol 23; Numbers 1&2;

2016: Complexities in Representation of Nativity: A Comparative Study of Australian Aboriginal Movement and Adivasi

Movements in India. International Journal of Tribal Literature and Cultural Studies: A Refereed International Journal

Devoted to Tribal Centric Issues. IGNTU, Amarkantak Vol 1-2

2016: ‘Emerging Consciousness and Resistance: Reading Dalit Short Stories in Translation’ The International Quarterly

Journal: Horizons of Holistic Education: Peer Reviewed. Children’s University, Gandhinagar. Vol:3 Issue 2.

2016: ‘Speaking for Generations: Writer’s Responsibility as a Conduit of Community Stories’ Indian Journal of Australian

Studies. HPU, Shimla. Volume 8.

2016: ‘Under the Common Sky: Conversing Across the Ocean. A Review of Voices Across the Ocean from Australia and

India’ Indian Journal of Australian Studies. HPU, Shimla. Volume 8.

2013: Verma, Veena. ‘Closed Door’ Trans. Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry. Indian Literature. Vol. LVII No.5/ 277 (Sep/ Oct,

2013), 96-111. ISSN:0019580-4

2012: ‘Representation to Community Consciousness: Australian Aboriginal Autobiographies’ Indian Journal of Australian

Studies. HPU, Shimla Volume 5

2011: Translations of selected poems of Bushra Ejaz from Punjabi Translations into English. Indian Literature. Jan -Feb, 2011 No.260