Biography

Sushmita Pareek has a Doctoral Degree from Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS), University of Hyderabad, India. She is a recipient of Erasmus+ worldwide scholarship and conducted part of her research at Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Freie University, Berlin. 

Her work centres around the post-anthropocene challenges of translating animals as symbols of language and culture into a different culture and language with its own unique set of political, theological and socio-economic circumstances. Her M.Phil. research concentrated on children’s literature focusing on Roald Dahl’s novels and translating those to Hindi language. She has a Master’s degree in English Literature from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University and an Honors degree in English from Delhi University, India. She is also a practising translator with additional training experience from Delhi University and National Translation Mission (CIIL, Mysore, India). Her research interests includes Cultural and Folklore Studies, Translation Studies , Ecocriticism and Children's Literature. She has published research in journals like; Ecozon@, Text Matters etc.