Dr. Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry (educationist, author and poet) teaches at the Centre for English Studies at Central
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