Bivitha Easo is a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hy-derabad, India. Her key areas of interests include minority discourse; religion and politics; Chris-tianities and communities; regional modernities; children’s texts and childhood studies; among others. She has worked on “Childhood under Construction: Children’s Literature and Curricula in Contemporary Kerala” for MPhil dissertation. She is currently working on the community for-mation among the Syrian Christian community in the South Indian state of Kerala for her doc-toral thesis. This work attempts to deconstruct the translation of a community as caste, and stud-ies a minor-migrant community in its engagement with capital, secular and modern underpin-nings of the nation-state, in order to foreground a communitarian critique of both.
Lectures:
“Translated Christianities: ‘Eastern’ Christian Con-texts”