Pradeep
Trikha is a Senior Faculty at the Department of English. Dayanand College,
Ajmer. Born in 1963 he did his Ph.D. on “The Short Fiction of Frank
Moorhouse: A Thematic Study” from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
During 1996-2000 he was Associate Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of
Advanced Studies, Simla where he took up a UGC Research Project on
‘Contemporary Indian Women Short-Story Writers-- Anita Desai, Githa
Hariharan and Bharti Mukharjee”, which later appeared as a monograph.
His research articles, reviews and write-ups have been extensively published both in India and abroad. His first well-received book was Frank Moorhouse: The Writer as an Artist(2001). In 2003 he received the AIC grant fro his visit to a number of Universities and Centres of Australian Studies in Australia and for attending the Annual ASAL and ADSA conferences at Brisbane.
He is the co-editor of Lemuria and also the Deputy Director, Centers for
Indo- Australian Studies, Dayanand College, Ajmer.
His major research interests are contemporary Theatre, Australian Literature, and Indian English Novel. As a scholar of fiction and short story, his critical writing are widely acclaimed.
He can also be reached at pradeeptrikha@gmail.com.
His forthcoming publication is Literature, Nation and Revolution: Celebrating 150th year of 1857 (ed.).
1. Frank Moorhouse- The Writer as an Artist
2. Textuality and Inter-Textuality in the Mahabharata
3. Delphic Intimations
4. Multiple Celebrations Celebrating Multiplicity... A monograph on Girish Karnad