With more than 22 years of teaching and research experience, Prem Kumari Srivastava, having obtained her doctorate from the dept of Humanities and social sciences, IIT Delhi, is currently Associate Professor of English at Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi. An honorary ‘Fellow’ at Developing Countries Research Center, University of Delhi, Dr Srivastava is the recipient of the Faculty Research Shastri fellowship for 2010-11 at the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, awarded by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and D’Fait Canada.

On deputation as ‘Fellow’ in 2008 and 2009 at the Institute of Lifelong Learning, University of Delhi, she had been engaged in web-based course development for E-learning on ‘English Language’ and ‘Cultural Diversity of India’ for University of Delhi undergraduate programmes where she coordinated 56 and 4 modules in the e-mode on them respectively.

She is also on the Course Development Committees at Ambedkar University, Delhi, IGNOU, New Delhi and Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra. Keenly involved with the activities of Fortell (Forum for Teachers of English Language and Literature), her other research interests are in areas such as, literary adaptations in cinema, women and gender studies, translation, religion of saints, native studies, American Literature and Leslie A Fiedler. With many national/international publications in books and reputed journals to her credit, she has guest edited a special issue on “New Literatures in English” of Creative Forum, a journal of creative and literary writings (2004), the special issues of the journal Fortell; on “E-learning” (September 2010) and on “Literature: Classroom Interactions” (January 2011).

Widely travelled, she has made presentations and given talks at national and international Conferences/fora in India, UK, Cyprus, US and Canada, to name a few. Her forthcoming publications in 2011 are a book on the American literary critic, Leslie A Fiedler, being brought out by Mcfarland Publishers, North Carolina, USA in 2011; translated story by Zubaan Books and two tribal women’s oral narratives (in translation) in Narrating and Translating Women’s Cultural Heritage in Chamba being published by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2011. Presently she is guest editing the May 2011 issue of Fortell. Prem also writes and publishes poetry. Some of her publications can be viewed at