Vara Ranjani

Assistant Professor, , GSHS, HYD

rvara@gitam.edu

Vara Ranjani holds a PhD and MPhil from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. In 2014, she was appointed as an Assistant Professor at GITAM, Hyderabad. Prior to this, Dr. Ranjani served for seven years as a Guest Faculty in the College of Engineering at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. Her scholarly endeavours include presentations and publications in esteemed national and international conferences and journals.

Research Publications
  • Constructing Hybrid Self: A Study of Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family in Poetcrit, ISSN 09702830, Vol. XXIV, NO.2,Pg70, 2011.
  • Return to Home: In Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight and Romesh Gunesekera’s The Sandglass in The IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature, ISSN 0974-8822, Vol. II, No.2, Pg 55, 2011.
  • Apocalypse on the Emerald Isle: The Sri Lankan Ethnic Conflict in Michael Ondaatje’s Anils’s Ghost and Romesh Gunesekera’s Heaven’s Edge in The Atlantic Critical Review, ISSN 0972-6373, Vol. II, No.1, Pg 72, 2012.
  • Mapping transnational Routes in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family, Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and Romesh Gunesekara’s The Sandglass in International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews (IJRAR), E-ISSN 2348-1269, P- ISSN 2349-5138, Vol V, 2018.
  • Reclamation of Memory: A Study of Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of the Lion and Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef in LOKARATNA, ISSN: 2347-6427, Vol. XI (2) Pg. 127 to 136, 2018.
Expertise
  • Diaspora Studies - South Asian Diaspora, Dalits and Diaspora, Caribbean Diaspora, Black Diaspora, Queer Diaspora
  • Migration Literature
  • African American Literature
Vara Ranjani