Swarnalatha Rangarajan/ R. Sreejith Varma

Swarnalatha Rangarajan is Professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras and is passionate about environmental humanities. She is the founding editor of the Indian Journal of Ecocriticism (IJE). Her academic publications include Ecocriticism: Big Ideas and Practical Strategies (2018) and co-edited works titled Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development (2014)and Ecocriticism of the Global South(2015). She is the co-translator of Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior(2018). She is one of the series editors for the Routledge Studies in World Literatures and Environment and the co-editor of the Routledge Book of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (2019). She is the co-editor of the forthcoming A Handbook of Medical-Environmental Humanities to be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2022.
Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies of publishing houses like Penguin, Zubaan, Westland, New Asian Writing, South Asian Review to name a few. Her poetry has appeared in the collection All the Worlds Between (Yoda Press, 2017) and in Muse India. Her debut novel, Final Instructions was published by Authorspress in 2015. She has co-edited a collection of interviews with Contemporary Women Writers from Tamil Nadu titled Lifescapes which was published by a leading feminist press, Women Unlimited in 2019. R. Sreejith Varmaworks as an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2018. Along with Swarnalatha Rangarajan, he is the translator of Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior. His latest publication is “Resource Extractivism and Environmental Damage: An Analysis of Two Extractivist Fictions from Kerala” in the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. He is also a bilingual poet who writes in English and Malayalam, his mother tongue.