Assistant Professor

Iswarya V works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (DLHS), MAHE, Bengaluru campus. Her research interests include contemporary British drama, metatheatre, and consciousness studies. She was previously a UGC-Senior Research Fellow at Madras Christian College, Chennai. She completed her doctoral studies in 2023. Her doctoral research focussed on the representation of consciousness in Tom Stoppard’s drama. She has over 5 years of teaching experience at college level, besides several years as a freelance language trainer for competitive exams such as GRE, IELTS and GMAT. She has presented her research internationally and is the co-editor of the anthology The Cosmic and the Corporeal: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Time, Space and Body (Institute of Interdisciplinary Inquiry, New Zealand). She has also been involved in student theatre for many years and has directed prize-winning plays. Apart from her academic interests, she has been active in running a social media campaign to raise awareness about gender-based violence (“Calling Out Stalking”) as part of which she has written articles on Tamil cinema for popular publications. She is also, at present, a literary translator from Tamil to English and her translations have appeared in the Frontline magazine.

Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (DLHS) Bengaluru

Qualification: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. in English