Sulthana Nasrin is a PhD Candidate and UGC Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She holds an MA in English Literature from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, and a BA from St. Stephens' College, University of Delhi. Her research deals with the cultures of reading, practices of print and the coming of the book in Malayalam variants from nineteenth and twentieth-century Kerala. She is interested in questions of literacy, translation and working with oral-aural sensations in print archives of the southern country. She is the recipient of Inlaks Research and Travel Grant 2023.

Research Project at EXC "Temporal Communities":

Between Literate and Literary: Transnational Print Networks and Practices of Reading Aloud