Humanities and Languages

Professor Pallavi Narayan teaches literature and writing courses in the Humanities and Languages Division, School of Arts and Sciences. Having worked across the domains of university centres and book publishing in Singapore and India, she has established, as its Director, the Ahmedabad Writing Programme, which focuses on creative writing, publishing and translation. She is additionally responsible for establishing the University Press as its Founder-Director.

Her work designing a course and teaching on the flagship course of Ahmedabad Writing Programme, the Post Graduate Diploma in Translation and Creative Writing, was covered in The Hindu on International Translation Day 2023 and her statement on the course was released in a press release by the JCB Literature Foundation, in April 2024.

Her prior experience has been with Taylor & Francis Books, Pan Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Singapore Management University, National University of Singapore Press, Nanyang Technological University and O.P. Jindal Global University in progressively senior editorial and academic roles She has guest lectured at the National University of Singapore, University of California Santa Barbara, Kamala Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture and Environmental Studies, Symbiosis International University, and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

Professor Narayan holds a PhD in Literature from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and in her research focused on cities through the lens of fiction. She publishes across disciplines, focused primarily on contemporary fiction and poetry, literary theory, urban architecture, museum studies, cultural studies, and the self and the other. She also writes and lectures extensively on writing and publishing in Asia. Her book Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City (Routledge 2022) has been published to critical acclaim and reviewed in The Journal of Mediterranean Studies and Prose: Journal of Literary Studies, and book discussions were organised at Koç University, Istanbul and Ahmedabad University. Her edited anthology Singapore at Home: Life across Lines (Kitaab 2021) was launched at the Singapore Writers Festival 2021 and was featured in the top-ten list in The Straits Times for home-grown fiction. 

She has received laurels as the first Frankfurt Fellow from Singapore to the Frankfurt Book Fair; sole fellow from Asia at the CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institute on Challenges of Translation at Universidad de Chile and fellow at the GHI on Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; South Asia Speaks Literary Fellow; Visiting Scholar at Koç University Center for Asian Studies, Istanbul; and Jalan Besar Writing Fellow at Sing Lit Station, Singapore. She has moderated panels and/or spoken at numerous forums around the world such as the Singapore Writers Festival, Singapore Art Book Fair, Singapore Book Council, Carnival of Poetry, Singapore Literature Conference, Asia Literary Society, ASEAN-India Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Writers Festival, Indian Copyeditors Forum, Glendon School of Translation Conference Series, Latin American Studies Network of Montreal, Association of Asian Studies, European Society for the Study of English and Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. She occasionally translates from Spanish and Hindi.

Books

• 2022 | Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City, London & New York: Routledge, ISBN: 9780367760649 (HB), 9781032000206 (PB), 9781003172314 (EB); South Asia edition 2023, ISBN: 9781032425337 (HB). Book reviews by Nesrin Degirmencioglu in The Journal of Mediterranean Studies and by Ian Almond in Prose: Journal of Literary Studies (2023); book talks at Koç University Center for Asian Studies and Ahmedabad University
• 2021 | Singapore at Home: Life Across Lines (co-edited), Singapore: Kitaab, ISBN: 9789811480454. Book events: Singapore Writers Festival 2021, National Library Singapore Literature Club, NLB Heartlands Book Club 2023, Writing the City 2021, book launch at O.P. Jindal Global University 2022. #6 in The Straits Times for homegrown fiction; reviewed on Asian Books Blog and The New Indian Express (Link)

Book Chapters

• 2024 | "Migrants and Otherness in Beauty Queens of Bishan," in Singapore Literature Conference: Selected Proceedings 2021 and 2023, ed. Ng Chiew Hong and Jonathan Chan. Singapore, pp. 150-57.
• 2015 | "Pamuk’s Neighbourhood: The 'Western' Object," in The Silent Life of Things: Representing and Reading Commodified Objecthood, ed. Alan Munton, Daniela Rogobete, and Jonathan P.A. Sell, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing; ISBN: 9781443883689 (Link)

Journal Papers

• 2022 | "Editorial Introduction: Geography and Collective Memories through Art," Australian Geographer. DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2022.205255, indexed in SCOPUS and SCImago (co-writer) (Link)
• 2021 | "Resting in the Met: Constructions of Homelike Spaces in Christine Coulson’s Metropolitan Stories," Museologia e Interdisciplinaridade vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 145–55. DOI: 10.26512/museologia.v10i19.35565) ISSN: 2238-5436, indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Latindex (Link)
• 2021 | "Gender and Domestic Space in Ahmed Ali’s and Krishna Sobti’s Novels on Old Delhi," IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 35–48. E-ISSN: 2747-9549; indexed in MLA International Bibliography (Link)

Academic Articles

• 2021 | "Documenting Visibility: Representation and Exclusion Across Borders," CHCI-Global Humanities Institute 2020–21: Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in Contemporary Global Context (Link)
• 2020 | "Decolonizing the Museum Space in India: The Pandemic Influence," Conflict, Justice, Decolonization: Critical Studies of Inter-Asian Society (Link)
• 2018 | "The Museum of Innocence in Istanbul: Real Objects and Fictional Lives," Passage Magazine: Friends of Museums Singapore (Link)
• 2013 | "Magical Objects: Visiting Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence," Literary Paritantra (Systems): An International Journal of Literature and Theory vol. 3, nos 1 & 2, pp. 90 –92

General Articles

• 2021 | "To Pause and Contemplate: A Note on the Dallas Museum of Art," Museum Memories Project
• 2020 | "Passing the Pandemic with Pamuk: How to Travel the World from One Room During Lockdown," Scroll (Link)
• 2020 | "The Green on Race Course Road," Impermanent Earth (Link)
• 2020 | "Rereading Enid Blyton During the Lockdown," The Curious Reader (Link)
• 2019 | "Three Essentials to Unravel the Mystery Behind Poetry Translations," Jala (Link)
• 2019 | "Fresh Chilean Writing: Jonathan Urqueta on Memory and Nostalgia," Kitaab (Link)
• 2018 | "Leela Samson: Guru of Quiet Transformations," Esplanade Singapore (Link)

Interviews and Reviews

• 2024 | "Shifting the Focus: Ian Almond's World Literature Decentred, The Journal of Mediterranean Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 141-42. 

• 2024 I "Vibrant, Intricate and Integrated: Diaspora Narratives in Contemporary Singapore," review of Nine Yard Sarees: A Short Story Cycle by Prasanthi Ram, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore vol. 23, no. 3, July

• 2024 | "A Delicacy of Feeling," review of Rambutan Kisses by Malachi Edwin Vethamani, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore vol. 23, no. 1, January

• 2023 | “A Visual Treat or a Play on Words?” review of Eve and the Lost Ghost Family by Felix Cheong and Arif Rafhan, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore vol. 22, no. 4, October

• 2021 | "Interview with Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi: COVID-19 Pandemic Proved How Little We Need to Live," The New Indian Express (Link)

• 2021 | "Dipping into Bengali Underground Poetry," review of The Great Bengali Poetry Underground, trans. Rajat Chaudhuri, The New Indian Express (Link)
• 2020 | "Bhaunri and Daura: Twin Tales of Mystique from Rajasthan," Kitaab (Link)
• 2020 | "Hushed Lushness: Paper Asylum by Rochelle Potkar," Commonwealth Business News (Link)
• 2017 | "Enchanted Dreamscapes," review of Singapore International Festival of Arts, Art Republik
• 2017 | Book review, The Fingers Remember by Aditi Rao, The Book Review vol. XLI (4) (Link)
• 2017 | Book review, Things to Leave Behind by Namita Gokhale, Singapore: Kitaab (Link)
• 2016 | Book review, Kappa Quartet by Daryl Qilin Yam, Kitaab (Link)
• 2016 | Review of Heat: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology, Kitaab (Link)
• 2016 | The Lure of the Written Word: Interview with Kunal Basu, Kitaab (Link)

Selected Poetry

• 2024 I "A Jonker Carriage" and "Malacca Night Market," in Malaysian Spaces and Places, ed. Malachi Edwin Vethamani, Selangor: Maya Press, forthcoming November
• 2020 I "Circus," The Initial Journal, August issue
• 2020 | "Peace," Kitaab (Link)
• 2020 | "Peace Within Me," in Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus, ed. G.A. Cuddy, Amazon Books (Link)
• 2018 | "Crisp and Clear," We Are A Website vol. 8, 3: ‘Un-gendering Home’ Special Issue
• 2018, 2016, and 2015 | "Nonversation," Muse India, issue 79, ed. GJV Prasad; “Sanctioned and Unsettled,” issue 68, July–Aug.; and “Cubicle,” Nov.–Dec. issue (Link)
• 2017 | "A Condo is..." "An HDB is..." and "A Foreign Migrant is..." in Asingbol: An Archaeology of the Singaporean Poetic Form, ed. Desmond Kon, Singapore: Squircle Line Press (Link)
• 2016 | “Garden Games,” “Tippy Tippy Tap” and “Spool and Rewind,” in 40 Under 40: An Anthology of Post-Globalization Poetry, Mumbai: Poetrywala (Link)
• 2015 | “Flickering,” in SingPoWriMo 2015, Singapore: Math Paper Press (Link)
• 2014 | “Triptych—Longing,” in Dilli: An Anthology of Women Poets of Delhi, ed. Semeen Ali, Cape Town: Poets Printery (Link)
• 2006 ‘This is Still Me’, New Quest: A Quarterly Journal of Participative Inquiry

Short Stories

• 2024 | "Rendezvous in Bed with an Incubus," 42 Stories Anthology, Tokyo, forthcoming
• 2023 I "Red and Gold: A Literary Fiasco," in The Best Asian Short Stories, Singapore: Kitaab, 2023
• 2020 | "Walking, Talking," top entry in Bound India short-story contest 

Visual Art

• 2021 | Artwork for the book cover of anthology Singapore at Home: Life across Lines
• 2021 | Mississauga Meanderings, watercolour with pen-and-ink, Goats Milk Magazine, issue 7
• 2021 | Burning Man, Rhinoceros, Enchanted Wood, Pinocchio and Geppetto, and Blush, photographs, Analogies and Allegories Literary Magazine, issue 3: Dreams (Link)
• 2020 | The Big Rush, Universe, and Lighthouse, photographs, The Lumiere Review, issue 1 (Link)
• 2020 | Paris in Song, photograph, Nightingale and Sparrow, issue 6: melody (Link)
• 2020 | Traffic Lights, watercolour with pen-and-ink, Beyond Words Literary Magazine (Link)

Courses Taught at Ahmedabad University

For Amrut Mody School of Management (Monsoon and Bi-semester 2024, and Winter 2025): COM101: Effective Reading and Comprehension

For School of Arts and Sciences (Winter 2024): LIT301: The City in World Literature

For School of Arts and Sciences (Winter 2024): IHS801: The City in World Literature

For Amrut Mody School of Management (Winter 2024): COM701: Research Writing

For Post Graduate Diploma in Translation and Creative Writing: Mapping the Worlds of Literature and Publishing Workshops (Monsoon 2023)

Courses Previously Taught at Other Universities

300 and 500 levels: Collecting Art in Europe and Asia (National University of Singapore)

300 level: Art History in Asia (University of California, Santa Barbara and California Lutheran University)

800 and 100 levels: Communication Skills (Indian Insitute of Technology Delhi and O.P. Jindal Global Unviersity)

400 level: Architectural Writing (Kamala Raheja Vidynanidhi Insitute of Architecture and Environmental Studies)

400 level: Thesis Writing (O.P. Jindal Global University)

200 and 300 levels: Interdisciplinary Discussion (O.P. Jindal Global University)

100 level: Rhetoric and Critical Writing  (Symbiosis International University)

300 level: Religion and Literature (Symbiosis International University)

2024 | "Migrants and South Asian Food in Singapore," paper presentation, The 13th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) at Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia, organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, The Netherlands

2024 | “Innovation in the Private Museum in India: Social Change and New Communications,” invited paper presentation, 3rd International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities (ISSH 2024) at Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam, in a consortium with University of Melbourne, Australia; Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania; Higher School of Economics, Russia; Jadavpur University, India; London Metropolitan University, UK; Gampaha Wickramarachchi University of Indigenous Medicine (Sri Lanka); and Walailak University (Thailand)

2024 | "Dreaming Objects: Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence," invited talk, The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, Kolkata

2024 | “World Literature and the Postcolonial through Foucault’s Heterotopic Lens,” paper presentation, World Foucault Congress, Kolkata

2024 | Panellist, “Narrating the South Asian City,” with Divya Ravindranath and Saad Hossain, moderated by Shwetha Srikanthan and in collaboration with Himal Southasian, and  “The Ties that Bind Us: Reading Marquez Today,” with Charu Nivedita and A.J. Thomas, moderated by Kartik Venkatesh, City Scripts: An Urban Writings Festival, Indian Institute for Human Settlements

2024 | "Cities in Literature: Talk with Author Pallavi Narayan," in conversation with author Milan Vohra, Atta Galatta Bookstore, Bengaluru 

2024 | Opening speech, Alumni Networking Event, Post Graduate Diploma in Translation and Creative Writing, flagship course of Ahmedabad Writing Programme, Ahmedabad University

2024 | “Narrative and Craft: Resident Writers on Fiction and Non-fiction in India,” organizer and moderator, conversation between Anukrti Upadhyay and Radhika Iyengar followed by book signing, Writing Residency, Ahmedabad Writing Programme, Ahmedabad University Bookstore

2024 | “The Fictive and the Real: Theory and Practice,” organizer, conversation between Jerry Pinto, Anukrti Upadhyay and Radhika Iyengar, Ahmedabad Writing Programme, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University

2024 | Organizer, “Translating Mumbai,” book launch, discussion and book signing of Mithun Number Two and Other Mumbai Stories by Jayant Kaikini between Tejaswini Niranjana and Rita Kothari, Ahmedabad Writing Programme, Ahmedabad University Bookstore

2024 | Panellist, book discussion, Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City by Pallavi Narayan followed by by signing, with Divya Ravindranath and Safwan Amir, Ahmedabad Writing Programme, Ahmedabad University Bookstore

2024 | “Writing Bilingually: What Translating One's Work can Teach about Writing,” organizer and discussant, book reading and conversation with Abhimanyu Acharya, Ahmedabad Writing Programme, Ahmedabad University Bookstore

2024 | “The Value(s) of a Literary Education: Beauty, Truth, Language, Freedom, and Democracy,” organizer, talk by Chandrahas Choudhury, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University

2024 | Invited facilitator and workshop designer, The City in/of Contemporary South Asian Fiction, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh. Keynote conversation with Saikat Majumdar

2024 | “Editing Asia: Dr Pallavi Narayan on the Publishing Industry across Asia,” invited talk by Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd), housed at University of Melbourne

2024 | “Production of Folk Art: The Case of Private Museums in India,” invited paper presentation, 5th International Conference on Heritage Management and Practice: Intersections of Heritage Economics and Digital Technologies, Centre for Heritage Management, Ahmedabad University

2023 | Invited panellist on two panels at Ahmedabad International Literature Festival: A Conversation on Culture, Literature and Society, and In Search of Self: Journeys of Identity and Personal Growth with authors, academics and publishers

2023 | Paper presentation on Akshita Nanda’s Beauty Queens of Bishan, Singapore Literature Conference

2023 | Invited lecture, “Imagining Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Fictional Museum,” Research Seminar Seriies, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University

2023 | Invited webinar with Indian Copyeditors Forum on “Transferring Commissioning Skills across Academic and Trade Publishing”

2023 | Book discussion of Singapore at Home: Life across Lines co-edited by Pallavi Narayan with Heartlands Book Club of the National Library of Singapore

2023 | Writing and sketching workshops on “Food Migrants: South Asia in Singapore” anthology project conducted at Sing Lit Station as part of Jalan Besar Writing Fellowship

2023 | Invited panellist on a panel on “Multilingualism and Diversity in Singapore,” with Eric Valles, Daryl Lim Wei Jie, and Stephanie Chan, Asian Literary Society Singapore Carnival, Indian Heritage Centre

2023 | Invited panellist, Migrant Book Fair, moderated by Eric Valles, Migrant Writers Association of Singapore

2022 | Book talk, Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City as Visiting Scholar, Koç University Center for Asia Studies, Istanbul

2022 | Carnival of Poetry: Struggle and Gain: An Ode to Workers organized by Migrant Writers of Singapore and supported by Sing Lit Station, poetry reading and discussion on migration

2022 | O.P. Jindal Global University, book launch of Singapore at Home: Life across Lines

2021 | Migrant Book Fair Singapore, reading from Singapore at Home: Life across Lines

2021 | Singapore Writers Festival (National Arts Council) book launch of Singapore at Home: Life across Lines

2021 | NLB Singapore Literature Book Club (National Library Singapore) Book discussion and readings from Singapore at Home: Life Across Lines co-edited by Pallavi Narayan, attendees from Singapore, India, Malaysia, China, France, USA, Chile, Nigeria

2021| Writing the City (Speak Good English Movement) Singapore at Home: A Writing Meditation, co-facilitated by Pallavi Narayan

2021| 7th BAKEA International Western Cultural and Literary Studies Online Symposium (Pamukkale University)

2021| Representations of Violence in Literature, Culture and Arts (Osmaniye Korkut Ata University) “Ecology and Occupation in Kalpish Ratna’s Once upon a Hill

2021 | Global Publishing and the Making of Literary Worlds; Translation, Media, and Mobility (Princeton University, USA) “Creating Literary Worlds in Singaporean Literature”

2021 | Geography and Collective Memories through Art Workshop (Griffith University, Australia), “Art in Translation: Geographies of Chilean Community”

2020–21 | CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institute, “Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in Contemporary Global Context,” hosted by National Chiao Tung University with Western Sydney University; Mahidol University; University of Malaya; Polish Academy of Sciences; Toc Duc Thang University; University of Social Sciences and Humanities; Vietnam National University; Hong Kong University; Chung-Ang University; Yonsei University; Hanyang University “Migrants and Precarity in Turkish and Indian Fiction”

2021 | Advocacy and Solidarity: Latin America in Movement, Latin American Studies Network of Montreal (RELAM) (University of Quebec, Canada) “Migrants and the Imagination of Space: Urban Fiction in São Paulo”

2020 | Glendon School of Translation Conference Series (York University, Canada) “Translating the Chilean Geography: Writing in Process”

2020 | Secluded: A Virtual Writing Conference (Burlesque Press, USA) “Teaching Writing in Asia: Addressing a Growing Need”

2020 | Bound Residential Writers Retreat in Goa (Bound India literary platform) “Book Publishing”

2019 | CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institute, “Challenges of Translation: Theoretical Issues, Practical Densities: Violence, Memory, and the Untranslatable,” organized in Santiago, Chile (Universidad de Chile; University of California Irvine; University of the Western Cape; and Oxford University) “Translation and Content in Modernist City Writing: A Comparative Approach to Istanbul and Delhi”

2019, 2018, 2017 | Singapore Writers Festival (National Arts Council, Singapore) panel moderator on best Asian short stories, local poetry, libraries

2019 | Singapore Art Book Fair (Singapore Art Book Fair and NTU-CCA “Art Book Publishing” panel, organizer and moderator

2018 | Asia in Motion (Association of Asian Studies, AAS-in-Delhi) “Getting Published: Writing a Publishable Manuscript, and Mistakes Authors Make”

2018 | Graduate Students Conference (Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore) “Academic Publishing: Trends and Issues,” chair, plenary session

2018 | Prose Manuscript Bootcamp (Sing Lit Station) invited advisor

2018 | Meet the Publishers: Non-fiction Book Publishing (50th-anniversary series of Singapore Book Publishers Association and Singapore Book Council) “Non-fiction Book Publishing”

2018 | ASEAN-India Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Writers Festival (Embassy of India in Singapore), panel moderator

2017 | 10th International Convention of Asia Scholars (organized at Chiang Mai University, Thailand by International Institute for Asian Studies, Netherlands)

2017 | Humanities and the City, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore “Singapore and Istanbul: Socio-cultural and Literary Connections”

2017 |  Urban Ecology and Gender: Exploring Gender, Marginalization and Equity in Urban Spaces in the Asia-Pacific (National University of Singapore and Kumaon University)

2017 | Humanities and Social Sciences Occasional Seminar (IIT Delhi, India) “The Fictional Museum: Collecting and Curating”

2017 | Literature Seminar (School of Letters and Centre for Publishing, Ambedkar University Delhi) [seminar] “The Fictional Museum: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence”

2017 | Thithikude: Tamil Open Mic Night (Singapore) Poetry reading

2016 | Human Rights: A Rights-based Spoken Word Competition (United Nations, Sayoni, and AWARE Singapore) Poetry reading

2014 | Humanities and Social Sciences Students’ Colloquium (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India) “Being Modern in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul”

2014 | National Research Writing Workshop (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) “Abstract Writing” and “Writing for Academic Journals”

2014 | 2nd international doctoral workshop on Comparative Urban and Regional Research (Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore, India) “Time–Space Narratives” and “Pamuk’s Istanbul: Everyday Architecture”

2013 | City City Bang Bang (Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi) “Alternative Media in Orhan Pamuk’s Novels”

2012 | 11th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul) “Pamuk’s Istanbul: Everyday Architecture” and “Pamuk’s Neighborhood: The ‘Western’ Object”

2012 | National Research Writing Workshop (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India) “Converting Your Dissertation into a Monograph”

2011 | 16th International Cultural Studies Workshop (organized at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India by SEPHIS [South South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development]) “Outside the Insider: Walking Pamuk’s Istanbul”

2010 | 15th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (University of Cyprus)

2010 | Students’ National Seminar on Representing Conflict (University of Delhi, India) “And Quiet Flows the Bosphorus”

2009 | Workshop on Publishing, Multilingualism, and Translation (School of Oriental and African Studies, UK; Jawaharlal Nehru University, India; and University of Delhi, India) [international seminar and workshop] “How Academic Publishing is Incorporating Translation” with V.K. Karthika

2024 | Media announcement, “JCBLF and Ahmedabad University Host Alumni Meet for Literary Translation, Creative Writing and Publishing Graduates,” MediaBrief (https://mediabrief.com/jcblf-and-ahmedabad-university-host-alumni-meet-for-literary-translation-creative-writing-and-publishing-graduates/#:~:text=Celebrating%20the%20graduation%20ceremony%20of,venture%20into%20the%20world%20of)

2024 | Podcast, "The Craft of South Asian Writing," with Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University and Chair, Booker Prize 2021, Stepwell Podcast, Ahmedabad University (available on Spotify)

2024  | Podcast, reading and explanation of translation, "Teevr Anubhuti," poem written in Hindi by Pallavi Narayan and translated into English by her as "Intense Emotion," Zabaan-e-aam Podcast (available on Spotify and Apple Music)

2023 | Feature article on the contemporary translation landscape in South Asia with quote and photograph, The Hindu—“International Translation Day: The Power of Community for India’s Young Translators” (https://www.thehindu.com/books/international-translation-day-india-young-translators-community-mentors-peer-resources-grants-scholarships/article67280751.ece)

2023 | Dr. Pallavi Narayan Speaks about Ahmedabad International Literature Festival 2023," YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4p9LcRRILk)

2023 | Podcast on Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City by Pallavi Narayan for New Books Network, interviewed by Sanjay Kumar, Central European University, Austria (available on Spotify)

2023 | Podcast on Singapore at Home: Life across Lines co-edited by Pallavi Narayan and general advice for emerging and aspiring writers for Podcast Enterprise, interviewed by Bala Ramadurai (available on Spotify)

2023 | “Pallavi Narayan, Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City (London: Routledge 2022),” reviewed by Ian Almond, Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi or Prose: Journal of Literary Studies, issue 5, October

2023 | “New Perspectives on Pamuk Studies: Pallavi Narayan’s Pamuk’s Istanbul,” reviewed by Nesrin Değirmencioğlu, The Journal of Mediterranean Studies vol. 30, no. 2 (2021): 245–47

2023 | "Pallavi Narayan (Indian Author)," interview, Kitaab (https://kitaab.org/2023/03/23/pallavi-narayan-indian-author/)

2023 | Analysis of "Peace Within Me," poem by Pallavi Narayan, in ‘Constructs of Selected COVID-19 Poems’, PhD dissertation of Eloise Aventajado, Cebu: Cebu Normal University (Link)

2021 | Dr Pallavi Narayan Connects Reserach in Museums through their Representation in Literary Texts (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=385310689939682)

2019 | "Escritora y artista de la India dona pintura a la Embajada de Chile en Singapur," Seccion Consular de Chile en Singapur (https://www.chile.gob.cl/singapur/noticias/escritora-y-artista-de-la-india-dona-pintura-a-la-embajada-de-chile-en)

2015 | "Pallavi Narayan Joins Kitaab as Fiction Editor (Asia)," Kitaab (https://kitaab.org/2015/02/02/pallavi-narayan-joins-kitaab-as-fiction-editor-asia/)

2014 | "Editor Interview: Pallavi Narayan, Senior Editor, Penguin Random House India" (https://srutis.blogspot.com/2014/08/editor-interview-pallavi-naryan-senior.html)

Grants

2024 I Environmental Writing, full scholarship to participate in Creative Nonfiction Writing Class with Clare McFadden and Liza Cochran 

2024 I University Research Board grant (Ahmedabad University, India) worth INR2,000,00 to participate in the following conferences: International Association of Asia Scholars (ICAS), 28 July to 1 August 2024 in Surabaya, Indonesia and Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities (ISSH), 26-27 July 2024 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2023 I Sing Lit Station, Singapore grant worth SGD3000 for being awarded the Jalan Besar Fellowship, 1 January to 31 March 2023

2023 I The Shipman Agency, UK, full scholarship for a writing workshop, How to Write about India and Pakistan with Fatima Bhutto

2020-21 I CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institute, Taiwan, stipend worth USD1500

2019 I CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institute, Chile, travel, accommodation, and board expenses covered, in addition stipend worth USD1500 

2018 I Frankfurter Buchmesse Fellowship Programme, all travel, accommodation, and board within Germany covered

2014 I Indian Institute for Human Settlements, early-career scholars' academic writing international workshop, travel, accommodation, and board covered

2012 I The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, winter doctoral students' international workshop, all travel, accommodation, and board covered

Fellowships

2023 I First South Asian awardee, Jalan Besar Fellowship, Sing Lit Station, Singapore

2021-22 I Visiting Scholar, Koc University Center for Asian Studies, Istanbul, Turkey 

2021 I South Asia Speaks literary fellowship 

2020-21 I Fellow, CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institute on Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens organized at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu Taiwan in a consortium with 12 universities in the Asia-Pacific

2019 I Sole scholar from Asia, CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institute on Violence, Memory and the Untranslatable," organized at Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile in a consortium with Oxford University, University of California at Irvine and University of the Western Cape

2018 I First Fellow from Singapore, Frankfurter Buchmesse Fellowship Programme for publishing professionals