Shastri Doctoral Research Fellowship

Dr. Sushma V. Murthy is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, CHRIST (Deemed to be University). She specializes in Gender Studies, Postcolonial Literatures, and Cultural Studies. In 2007-08, she received the Shastri Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Montreal, Canada. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Mysore in 2014. Her research focuses on queer theory, feminist translation studies, psychoanalytical feminism, and trauma narratives by women. She has published several research articles on feminist translation, transgender aesthetics, and queer theory. Dr.