Speaker Faculty

Dr. Giti Chandra is Senior Researcher and Lecturer with the Gender Equality Studies and Training (GEST) programme, part of the GRO Centre under the auspices of UNESCO, at the University of Iceland. She has been Associate Professor at the Dept. of English, St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and has taught in and been a fellow at Rutgers University, New Jersey, from where she did her Doctoral work on Women and Violence. She is the author of Narrating Violence, Constructing Collective Identities: To witness these wrongs unspeakable (Macmillan UK/US: 2009) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook on The Politics of the #MeToo Movement (Routledge UK/Nov 2020). She is the recipient of an EDDA grant for a book length study titled In Visible Texts: Hidden and Spectacularised Violence in Colonial India and Africa (forthcoming). Dr Chandra has served as Chairperson of the College Complaints Committee Against Sexual Harassment in St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and as the External Expert on the Sexual Harassment Complaints Committee at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. Dr Chandra has published a variety of fiction: the third book of The Book of Guardians Trilogy, The Eye of the Archer, is due out with Hachette in August 2020 (books 1 and 2 are The Fang of Summoning: Hachette 2010, and The Bones of Stars: Hachette 2013), and her short stories have been published in the Gollanzs Book of South Asian Science Fiction, vol. 1 and 2, and Future Fictions; her poems have been published in various anthologies and journals. She has served as Conductor of the St Stephen’s College Choir and the Capital City Minstrels, spanning almost two decades, and was violinist with the Delhi Symphony Orchestra for many years. She has also worked as Director of theatre poetry productions with Yatrik.