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Aparna Eswaran

Mahatma Gandhi University, India

Aparna Eswaran is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of International Relations and Politics, MGU, Kerala. She is also the Chairperson of the Centre for Crossnational Communication in South Asia, MGU. She holds a PhD in Women's Studies, from the Centre for Women's Studies, JNU where she combined her research interests in Literature, Gender and International Politics in her PhD thesis on “Women and Witnessing War: Poetry of Tamil Women in Sri Lanka.”The thesis examined poetry written in the period between 1981 and 2009 which was also the period of the rise and fall of militant Tamil nationalism. The work traces how political complexities within concepts like Liberation, Memory and Martyrdom, Exile and Return were reconceptualised by Tamil women living through wartime. She had earlier completed her MA in Politics with specialization in International Relations from School of International Studies, and proceeded to finish her M.Phil from the Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament in JNU, New Delhi. A firm believer in collaborative research, she works on incorporating gender as an analytical category in her research and writing, within both academic and popular realms.

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