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Updated: 15 January 2017
The Congress Advisory Panel has consisted of the following scholars:
- Prof Anvita Abbi, Padmashri
Formerly,
a Professor of Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,
she is at present, Director of the Centre for Oral and Tribal
Literature, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi and the President of the
Linguistic Society of India. She has occupied positions of Guest
Scientist at Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig, Germany; Leverhulme Professor at the School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK; and Visiting
Professorships at universities in the USA, UK, Germany and Australia.
- Prof Gaurishanker Venkateshwara Prasad (aka G J V Prasad)
Director
of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study. He is Professor of
English at the Centre for English Studies School of Language,
Literature and Culture Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
He has been Visiting Fellow and Professor at the Universities of Paris,
Hyderabad, Essex and Grinnell College, Iowa. He is the Elected
Chairperson of the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and
Language Studies (IACLALS) 2014-2017 and a member of the Executive
Committee of the Indian Association for the Study of Australia(IASA).
- Dr P Hemalatha Reddy
Principal
of Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. She has a PhD in
Biochemistry and is a distinguished scholar in her own field.
- Dr Sukrita Paul Kumar
Formerly,
a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, she is an
Honorary Fellow of the International Writing Programme, University of
Iowa (USA), as also of Hong Kong Baptist University and Cambridge
Seminars. She is honorary faculty at the Durrell Centre at Corfu
(Greece). At present she holds the Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at the Cluster
Innovation Centre, University of Delhi.
- Dr Tom Clark
Associate Professor, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. Associate
Professor and Discipline Group Leader, College of Arts staff teaching
and researching in Writing, Communication, and Culture. His teaching at
VU has been at the forefront of developing studies in Public Speaking
for the Communications curriculum in Australia.
Tom's published research into rhetoric and poetic style focuses on
analyses of political communication. It includes his 2012 book 'Stay on
Message: Poetry and Truthfulness in Public Speech.' It also includes
research into non-Indigenous attitudes towards Aboriginal
reconciliation in Australia and Canada, and an ongoing program of
research into poetry teaching in Australian schools.
President Australasian Universities Literatures and Languages Association (AULLA) and Secretary General, FILLM.
President Australasian Universities Literatures and Languages Association (AULLA) and Secretary General, FILLM.
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