Controlled Randomness: Emma Dawson Varughese at TEDxIIMRanchi

Dr. Emma Dawson Varughese works at the intersection of world literature and cultural studies. Her research is in post-millennial literature in English. She completed an international, fieldwork-based literary/cultural studies enquiry into the post-millennial literary scene in English in Africa, Malaysia, Singapore and India out of which her first monograph Beyond The Postcolonial (2012) was published. She has edited anthologies of short stories from Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya and Malaysia. The title story of the Ugandan collection 'Butterfly Dreams' was shortlisted for the Caine Prize, 2011.


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