by H. Kalpana Rao
Pondicherry academic guest scholar at University of Gothenburg
During four weeks of late spring 2015, Dr. Kalpana Rao Hulluru from Pondicherry University in India was a guest scholar at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion (LIR) at University of Gothenburg. At Pondicherry University, Dr. Hulluru is an associate professor at the Department of English, specialized in American and Canadian literature, women’s literature and feminist theories. She is also coordinator for the Study India programme involving students from Gothenburg doing field work in Pondicherry. During her stay in Gotheburg she held two public semunars, one on Tamil writer Perumal Murugan and his controversial novel ”One Part Woman” (published in English 2014). When it was translated into English the book was banned and angry crowds burned it. The writer was so troubled about this that he decided to give up writing completely. The second seminar dealt with ”Identity and Culture: Postcolonial Perspectives in Select South Asian Literature”. More information about her Gothenburg stay.
An interview with Dr. Hulluru was recently published in Karavan issue 2/2015. The article writtten by Karin Edgardh focuses on the Murugan seminar – ”Tamilsk författare tystad till självcensur”. More information.
Link: http://sasnetold.eu/sasnet-newsletter/newsletter-177-6-august-2015.html