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Antony Arul Valan

Visiting Faculty of English, 51²è¹Ý

Ph.D. 51²è¹Ý

Antony Arul Valan is a teacher, translator and editor. Valan holds a PhD in English from 51²è¹Ý and works in the field of critical caste studies, with a focus on language and rhetoric in English and Tamil texts. Valan’s writing has appeared in the peer-reviewed journal J-Caste, the feminist online archive The New Historia and the edited volumes Keywords for India and Cambridge Companion to Periyar. Valan is currently working on translating two later Sangam texts and a contemporary collection of short stories from Tamil. Valan graduated with a BTech in Agricultural Engineering from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and was a Young India Fellow in 2011–12. Before pursuing academic research, Valan was an editor for several years at the academic publishing house Orient BlackSwan.

  • ‘Periyar’s Engagement with Literature’ in Cambridge Companion to Periyar, eds A. R. Venkatachalapathy and Karthick Ram Manoharan (forthcoming November 2025)
  • ‘Pariyerum Perumal and a Periyarite Note on Political Engagement,’ CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion 3.1 (2022), pp. 171–88
  • Entries ‘Gaana’ and ‘Karpu’ in Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century, eds Rukmini Bhaya Nair and Peter Ronald deSouza (New Delhi: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), pp. 83–84, 318–20
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