Professor of English

Poonam Trivedi, former Associate Professor in English at Indraprastha College, University of Delhi. She received her doctorate from the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK; and has co-edited Fields of Play: Sport, Literature and Culture (Orient Blackswan: New Delhi, 2015), Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia (Routledge: New York and Delhi, 2010) and India’s Shakespeare: Translation, Interpretation and Performance (Delaware: 2005 and Pearson: Delhi, 2006). She has authored a CD-ROM ‘King Lear in India’ (2006), and has published articles in The Shakespearean International Yearbook, Shakespeare Survey, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage, Borrowers and Lenders, Literature/Film Quarterly, Hamlet Studies, and other national and international journals on Shakespeare in India, performance and film versions of Shakespeare, on women in Shakespeare and on Indian Theatre. She is currently co-editing a collection on Shakespeare in Indian Cinema.

She has been invited as keynote speaker at several conferences in India and abroad, most recently at SAFES, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, at the Royal Holloway College, University of London, the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, Canberra University and at Banaras Hindu University. She has also been Visiting Fellow and lectured at the Universities of San Francisco, Georgia, Athens, Rhodes College, Memphis, Melbourne and at Jadavpur and Hyderabad.

Poonam Trivedi is currently the Vice-Chair of the Asian Shakespeare Association, and formerly Secretary of the Shakespeare Society of India, 1993 to 1999. She has directed The Merry Wives of Windsor and Lear’s Daughters for Indraprastha College.