Sharanya DG

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Sharanya DG

Assistant Editor, Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS)

Sharanya DG holds a Masters degree in Contemporary Literature and Culture from Birkbeck, University of London, where her dissertation titled, Literary Resistance In Contemporary Dalit Feminist Fiction: A Study Of The Selected Works By Bama, P. Sivakami, And Meena Kandasamy, focused on the forms of literary resistance in contemporary feminist Dalit fiction. She completed her undergraduation from Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, India with a major in English and minors in Anthropology and Philosophy. As a part of an exchange program, she studied at the University of Hildesheim, Germany for Winter Semester 2018–19, under the ERASMUS+ scholarship. Sharanya has taught academic reading and writing at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, and has also been working as a Research Assistant to Dr. Abhishek Sharma, Associate Professor at the University of Delhi. Before immersing herself in the field of academic publishing through her work at LLIDS, Sharanya has gained some experience as a freelance editor, and has worked as an editorial intern at the children’s book publishers, Tulika Books, Chennai. 

One of her recent publications, drawing from her MA dissertation, “Literary Resistance in Contemporary Dalit Feminist Fiction: A Study of P. Sivakami’s The Grip of Change and Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess,” closely studies the literary devices used to represent and textually resist oppressive forces of patriarchy and casteism faced by Dalit women, and argues that Dalit feminist fictions are a dramatic form of protest, or literary resistance. Another paper titled “Reenchantment and Resistance: Study of Myths in U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara” (2024) argues that Ananthamurthy creates a new Indian form of literature characteristic of the post-Independence period, which seeks to resist the dominance of Western modernity and colonialism, by craftily entwining reality and myth in the narrative of Samskara, and realism and allegory in its form. Through her engagement with research and writing, Sharanya hopes to continue exploring the intricate ways in which our cultural and political lives entangle with literature.

Areas of Interest: Contemporary Literature, Resistance Literature, Cultural Theory, Critical Theory, Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies, Gender Studies

Email: sharanya[dot]dg[at]ellids[dot]com

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Forum pieces:

  • Goel, Nikita, et al. “Decolonizing Knowledge Systems: Open Access in the Indian Context.” Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies, Social Justice Special Issue, 2025, pp. 1.41–1.46, https://doi.org/10.71106/DKRP7781.

Book Chapters:

  • “One Must Imagine Billy Pilgrim Happy: Absurdity in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.” Life Choices: Multidisciplinary Essays on Existentialism and Ethics, edited by Nishant Irudayadason, 2020, pp. 134–145.