Pallavi Narayan

Dr. Pallavi Narayan has worked for 12+ years in academia and industry, including at Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art and Singapore Management University Centre for Management Practice, National University of Singapore Press, Penguin Random House, Pan Macmillan and Routledge. In 2018, she was named the first Frankfurt Fellow from Singapore to the Frankfurter Buchmesse Fellowship Programme.

In 2019, she was the sole participant from an Asian university at the CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institute on Challenges of Translation at the Universidad de Chile (co-organized with Oxford University, University of California at Irvine and University of the Western Cape), and in 2020-21 has been a member of the CHCI-Global Humanities Institute on Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens hosted at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Dr Narayan has presented her research, as well as organized, moderated and chaired events at various international conferences and networks including Princeton University, Boğaziçi University, York University Toronto, University of Quebec, National University of Singapore, Singapore University of Technology and Design, University of Cyprus, Singapore Writers Festival, Singapore Art Book Fair, Singapore Book Council and other forums. She has given guest lectures to undergraduate and doctoral students at the University of California, Santa Barbara; William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art, California Lutheran University; National University of Singapore; IIT Delhi; and Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts.

With a Diploma in Creative Writing, Dr Narayan has also given writing workshops in South and Southeast Asia throughout her career. In 2019 she was honoured as a writer and artist by the Embassy of Chile in Singapore. She is writing a long-form narrative on museums with the South Asia Speaks literary mentorship.

Research Interests

Cities and fiction, postmodernism, materiality, interiority, museums and spatiality, decolonization, urban architecture, visual art and literature, translation theory

Companies

• Associate Professor O.P. Jindal Global University (2022)
• Research Affiliate Koç University Center for Asian Studies (2021)
• Research & Creative Professional Pallavi Narayan (2020)
• Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Humanities O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) (2021 — 2022)
• Manager, Research Publications & Public Resource Platform, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore Nanyang Technological University (2019 — 2019)
• Affiliate, South Asian Studies Programme National University of Singapore (2017 — 2019)
• Acquisitions Editor National University of Singapore Press (2016 — 2018)
• Frankfurt Fellow 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair / Frankfurter Buchmesse (2018 — 2018)
• Writer at Centre for Management Practice Singapore Management University (2014 — 2015)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), English Language and Literature/Letters Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2016)
• Master's degree, English Language and Literature, General Delhi University (2005 - 2007)
• Levels Basico, Intermedio and Diploma Inicial, Español Instituto HispaniaInstituto Hispania (2005 - 2007)
• Bachelor’s Degree, English Language and Literature, General Delhi University (2002 - 2005)
• Diploma in Creative Writing in English Indira Gandhi National Open University (2004 — 2004)
• French Language and Literature Alliance Française de Singapour
• DELE, Spanish Language and Literature Spanish World Group