Dr. Sindhu J.
is a Professor in the Department of English, Bangalore University, Bangalore,
where she has been teaching since 2007. Her major areas of research interest
include Central Asian Studies (with a focus on travel writing), Gender Studies,
Urban Studies and Ecocriticism, particularly urban ecology and ecofeminism. She
has presented and published numerous research papers in national and
international conferences from 1998 till the present date. Her published works
include The Manas Epos: Across the
Millennium (2005), Siberia in the
Literary Imagination: From Frozen Waste to ‘Land of the Future’ (2012), Studies in Ecology: A Reader
(2019). She has recently completed a major Research Project funded
by Bangalore University titled “Gender and Urban Space: An Analysis of Select
Women’s Writings on Bangalore”.