Anu Kuriakose is an Assistant Professor of English at NIT Tiruchirappalli. Her areas of research
interest include intersectional feminism, transgender and genderqueer identities in popular
sociocultural discourses, transgender perspectives in literature and environment, gender-inclusive
language in professional communication and academic writing, and digital humanities. She holds a
PhD for the thesis titled “(Trans)forming Space: Construction and Contestation of Transgender
Identities in Selected Malayalam Films” from the Indian Institute of Space Science and
Technology Thiruvananthapuram (an autonomous institute under the Department of Space,
Government of India), awarded in 2020. Her articles focusing on trans identities have appeared in
refereed indexed journals- South Asian Popular Culture (Routledge), Economic and Political
Weekly, Journal of Dharma, among others. She is a reviewer of Contemporary South Asia
(Routledge). She has guest-edited Anweshi Women's Council's (Kozhikode) in-house magazine
Sanghaditha twice (October 2021, July 2022), and Sindhu: Southasian INter-Disciplinary
HUmanities (June 2022), an independent academic journal for scholars working on South Asian
concerns.
She is a recipient of the first-ever Chief Minister’s Nava Kerala Post-Doctoral Fellowship, a
prestigious research grant from the Kerala State Higher Education Council, Government of Kerala,
as the sole recipient in English studies in the Humanities and Liberal Arts Category in 2022. She is
interested in English-to-Malayalam translation, and editing and publishing of academic books. She
also holds a PG Diploma in Editing and Publishing from the School of Cultural Texts and Records,
Jadavpur University (2022). Apart from the wider focus on research, she is equally passionate about and strives to bring inclusiveness to teaching, learning, and social management.
interest include intersectional feminism, transgender and genderqueer identities in popular
sociocultural discourses, transgender perspectives in literature and environment, gender-inclusive
language in professional communication and academic writing, and digital humanities. She holds a
PhD for the thesis titled “(Trans)forming Space: Construction and Contestation of Transgender
Identities in Selected Malayalam Films” from the Indian Institute of Space Science and
Technology Thiruvananthapuram (an autonomous institute under the Department of Space,
Government of India), awarded in 2020. Her articles focusing on trans identities have appeared in
refereed indexed journals- South Asian Popular Culture (Routledge), Economic and Political
Weekly, Journal of Dharma, among others. She is a reviewer of Contemporary South Asia
(Routledge). She has guest-edited Anweshi Women's Council's (Kozhikode) in-house magazine
Sanghaditha twice (October 2021, July 2022), and Sindhu: Southasian INter-Disciplinary
HUmanities (June 2022), an independent academic journal for scholars working on South Asian
concerns.
She is a recipient of the first-ever Chief Minister’s Nava Kerala Post-Doctoral Fellowship, a
prestigious research grant from the Kerala State Higher Education Council, Government of Kerala,
as the sole recipient in English studies in the Humanities and Liberal Arts Category in 2022. She is
interested in English-to-Malayalam translation, and editing and publishing of academic books. She
also holds a PG Diploma in Editing and Publishing from the School of Cultural Texts and Records,
Jadavpur University (2022). Apart from the wider focus on research, she is equally passionate about and strives to bring inclusiveness to teaching, learning, and social management.
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