Associate Professor Chandani Lokuge
PhD (Flinders University), MA (University of Sri Lanka), BA (University of Sri Lanka)
Chandani Lokuge curriculum vitae [
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Biography
I read for my doctoral degree on a Commonwealth Scholarship. I am the author of nine books. As the Editor of the scholarly Oxford Classics Reissues series of pioneering Indian women’s writing in English, I have published six books including, The Collected Prose and Poetry of Toru Dutt and The Memories of Cornelia Sorabji: India's First Woman Barrister. My current academic research is on the aesthetics of South Asian diasporic literature. My creative writing includes two novels, If the moon smiled and Turtle Nest (Penguin), and Moth and Other Stories (Dangaroo). I have published or presented my fiction in France, Germany, Denmark, India, Sri Lanka, US, Cyprus and Australia. I am the Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Writing and Coordinator of the Creative Writing programme in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies.
Link to personal website
http://chandanilokuge.com/Research interests
- Indian women’s literature
- South Asian diasporic literature
- Travel writing
- Creative writing
Selected publications
- Lokuge, C. (2007) ‘Caves of Infinite Buddhas’. Meanjin, Vol 66, No. 2.
- Lokuge, C. (2006) Poetry and Prose of Toru Dutt. New Delhi, Oxford University Press.
- Lokuge, C. (2003) Turtle Nest. Camberwell, Penguin Books Australia and New Delhi, Penguin Books India).
- Lokuge, C. (2000) If the moon smiled. Camberwell, Penguin Books Australia and New Delhi, Penguin Books India.
- Lokuge, C. (1996) Moth and Other Stories. Aarhus, Dangaroo Press.
Competitive grants
- Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts: $25,000.00
- Routledge, UK: $18,000.00;
- Australia-India Council: $12,000;
- Myer Foundation: $5,000.00;
- Arts Victoria: $5,000.00;
- Ian Potter Foundation: $5,000.00