Bio
Tejaswini Niranjana is an Indian professor, cultural theorist, translator, and author.
In 2021, she was awarded the American Literary Translators Association Prize for Prose Fiction Translation for No Presents Please, a translation of author Jayant Kaikini’s short stories centered around the city of Mumbai. In 2019, No Presents Please was awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018, which Niranjana shared jointly with Jayant Kaikini.
Her theory of the relationship between colonialism and translation, writings on feminism and the ‘culture question’ in India, and her practice-based research into music (specifically Caribbean music, Hindustani classical music, and India-China collaborations) have contributed greatly to the fields of culture studies, gender studies, translation, and ethnomusicology.
Currently, she is a Visiting Professor at Ahmedabad University; Adjunct Fellow, Centre for Inter-Asian Research, Ahmedabad University, and a Visiting Professor, GITAM University-Bengaluru.