Rai, Sudha and Jain, Jasbir
(2018)
Interview.
Language and Language Teaching, 7 (1).
pp. 52-57.
ISSN 2277-307X
Abstract
Jasbir Jain, formerly Professor of English at the University of Rajasthan, where she was also Director,
Academic Staff College (1992-1997), UGC Emeritus Fellow (2001-2003) and Sahitya Akademi's Writer
in-Residence(2009) is currently the Founder Director of IRIS, Jaipur (Institute for Research in
Interdisciplinary Studies). Professor Jain is an elected life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, U.K.
Sheis the recipient of several awards including the K. K. Birla Foundation Fellowship for Comparative
Literature (1997-1999); Lifetime Achievement Award IACS (2004); and the SALA award for
distinguished scholarship (2008).
Professor Jain has published extensively in a wide range of areas, especially Indian literature. This
includes language literatures, an area where she has published three volumes on the history of the
Indian novel from 1860-2002. These are: Feminizing Political Discourse (1996), Contextualising
Modernism (2001) and Beyond Post Colonialism (2006). Other thrust areas in which she has made
her mark are feminism, drama, culture, theory and narratology. Some of her well-known publications
include Deconstructing Character: Transformations in American Drama (1997); Theorising Resistance
(2012); You Ask, I Tell-a translation of Hansa Wadkar's autobiography that she co-edited with
Shobha Shinde (2013);The Diaspora Writes Home (2015); Forgiveness: Between Memory and History
(2016) and Bridge Across the Rivers (2017), co-edited with Tripti Jain. Her latest publication,
Subcontinental Histories: Literary Reflections on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is expected
to be out by the end of 2017. Her work is widely citedand is evidence of her unrelenting pursuit of
intellectual inquiry and exploration of ideas.
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