Dr. Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry (educationist, author and poet) teaches at the Centre for English Studies at Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar. She was recognised as an Inspired Teacher for The President of India’s In-residence Program at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi in June 2015.  She has been largely interested in research around issues related to literatures of margins, social movements and studies of violence and trauma. She has also been actively engaged in Comparative Studies and Translations from Punjabi into English and vice-versa.

Her recent work has been on violence studies engaging with discourses on women and violence and 1984 anti-Sikh carnage in Delhi. She is an editor of Black November: Writings on Anti-Sikh Massacres of 1984 and the Aftermath (2019); Patrick White: Critical Issues (2014); co-editor of Violence, Subversion and Recovery: Women Writers from the Sub-continent and Around (2019, with Rachel Bari) and the author of Texting the Scripture: Sri Guru Granth Sahib and the Visionary Poetics of Patrick White (2016)