Ms. Chandrika Das is a final year Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Translation Studies, the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Her research has led her to explore epic narratives and folktales in the Rajasthan region. She is working on oral-visual cultures, which are now on the wane in a fast-changing digital world. She collects epic narrations and explores translational relations between the narratives’ visual and oral constituents.
Ms. Das is a recipient of the Junior Research Fellowship awarded by the University Grants Commission India. She has presented her work at various national and international conferences. She also served as Associate at the Nida School of Translation Studies, Italy and was selected for the SISU Translation Research Summer School, Shanghai, which was organized by the Baker Center for Translation and Intercultural Studies. She is a budding translator, who translates between Hindi and English. One of her translated short stories has been published by Sahitya Akademi in their journal Indian Literature.
As a Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant, Ms. Das is teaching Hindi at the University of Texas, Austin. Through her participation in the program, she is engaging with a diverse teacher-learner community. She hopes to return to India with upgraded pedagogical skills, which would aid her career as an academician in India.