Dr Varna Venugopal

About

Assistant Professor of English, VIT- AP University | Visiting Research Fellow, University of Durham | PhD in English, IIT Madras

Employment

• VIT-AP University Assistant Professor of English
  2026 - Present
• University of Durham Visiting Research Fellow
  2026 - 2026
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Research Scholar
  2020 - 2025

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras PhD
  2020 - 2025
• University of Hyderabad MA in English
  2018 - 2020

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (5)

• Planting the Empire: Botanical Imagery, Colonialism, and the Plantation Life in Mulk Raj Anand’s Two Leaves and a Bud
  Bandung 2026 DOI: 10.1163/21983534-20262012
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• Mother Trees and Memory Keepers: Botanical Life in Recent Indian Children’s Climate Fiction
  Children's Literature in Education 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-024-09599-3
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• “When the Black Half of the Kunni Seed Whitens”: Plant-Lore and the Plantationocene in Ambikasuthan Mangad’s Swarga
  Asia in Transition 2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-3933-2_9
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• When the “gormen” (government)–walled up the rivers: Reading Sarah Joseph’s Budhini as contemporary Indian hydrofiction
  Journal of Postcolonial Writing 2024 DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2024.2344567
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• Life Writing as Plant-Writing: Arboreal Encounters in Kallen Pokkudan’s Kandalkaadukalkkidayil Ente Jeevitham
  Lagoonscapes. :The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities 2022
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