Susie Tharu

A multifaceted persona of immense capabilities, Susie Tharu engages herself as a writer, publisher, professor, editor and women’s activist. She is currently Eminent Professor, Department of Cultural Studies. Both her research and teaching focus on feminism, issues of minority, literary and visual arts, and social medicine. In 1978 she helped to found Sthri Shakti Sangatana (SSS-Women Power Organization), an organization whose main focus was women. The organization also has raised question about the Rape Law through a series of street performances and public campaigns. Major Works: Subject to Change: Literary Studies in the Nineties. Delhi: Orient Longman Subaltern Studies (Co-editor) New French Feminisms: An Indian Anthology (Co-editor) Honours: Uganda Government Merit Scholarship, Makerere College, Uganda Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship