Visiting Faculty of English, 51²è¹Ý
Ph.D. 51²è¹ÝAntony 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.