Gayathri Prabhu

Bio

Gayathri Prabhu is the author of the memoir If I Had to Tell It Again (2017) and novels Vetaal and Vikram (2019), The Untitled (2016), Birdswim Fishfly (2006) and Maya (2003). She has published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication, Transnational Literature and Ecloga. Her professional experience of over ten years in film and television includes assisting in direction and screenwriting. She is presently Professor and Head at the Manipal Centre for Humanities. Her latest work A Genre of Her Own offers an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India.