About

Krupa Shah is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Head, at the Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Puducherry. She did her doctoral studies from IIT Gandhinagar under the guidance of Prof. Rita Kothari. Her primary areas of research include Literary and Translation Studies and South Asian Studies with a focus on the cultural history of Western India. She is also interested in women’s writings, film studies and francophone literature among others. Krupa’s research has been published in journals such as South Asian History and Culture, Contemporary South Asia, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment (ISLE), Seminar and Translation Today. She has also contributed to anthologies such as A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamic in India (OUP, 2017) ed. by Rita Kothari , The World Atlas of Translation (Benjamins Press, 2019) ed. by Yves Gambier and Ubaldo Stecconi, Reading Dalit: Essays on Literary Representations (Pencraft International, 2020) ed. G. J. V. Prasad and the bilingual (FR/EN) Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Indian Literature (Project DELI) published by Classiques Garnier in 2025. She is the recipient of a Travel Fellowship to the 6th Summer School of the Institute for World Literature (IWL), Dept. of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA in 2016. Krupa has taught both at the post-graduate as well as the undergraduate levels at institutes such as Pondicherry University and VIT Chennai, offering courses ranging from topics in English literature, Communication skills, Translation and global electives on Creative Writing and Literary Appreciation.

In addition to her academic research, Krupa consults as an independent translator working with English, Gujarati, and French alongside basic proficiency in Italian & Russian (FR->EN, IT-> EN, RU->EN). Her corporate experience in translation includes stints with the Amazon’s Kindle e-periodicals team (FR->EN) as well as freelance assignments for Independent Publishing House- Zubaan (GU->EN). Krupa’s journalistic writings and features have appeared in magazines on topics such as art, music, film and human interest stories. Her poems and other creative writings have been published on platforms such as MuseIndia, Cyclamens & Swords and Dialogue, while her translations have been published in Sahitya Akademi’s journal Indian Literature.