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Dr Sreedhevi Iyer
Dr Iyer is a writer-academic
- Lecturer
- Creative Writing
- Bachelor of Laws and Creative Industries (Creative Writing), QUT
- Masters in Philosophy (Creative Writing), University of Queensland
- Masters in Fine Arts (Creative Writing: Asian Writing), City University of Hong Kong
- PhD (Interdisciplinary), City University of Hong Kong
Dr Sreedhevi Iyer is the author of 'The Tiniest House of Time'. Her previous book, 'Jungle Without Water', was shortlisted for the Penang Monthly Book Award. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in the US, and has appeared around the world, including in 'The Writer's Chronicle', 'Drunken Boat', 'Hotel Amerika', 'The Bellingham Review', 'The Asian American Literary Review', and 'Ginosko Literary Journal' in the US, the 'Free Word Centre' in the UK, the 'Asia Literary Review' and 'Cha: An Asian Literary Journal' in Hong Kong, 'Everything Around Us' in Malaysia, 'Two Thirds North' in Sweden, and more. She has also guest edited special issues of 'Cha' and 'Drunken Boat', including a Hong Kong Special Folio on The Umbrella Revolution 2014.
Dr Iyer has presented writing workshops, and spoken on creative writing, literature, culture, globalism, cosmopolitanism and more at local and international venues, including Emerging Writers Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, Brisbane Writers Festival, Australian Short Story Festival, George Town Literary Festival (Penang), Asia Pacific Writers and Translators (Bali, Gold Coast), Asia-Pacific LitUp Fest (Singapore), Hong Kong International Literary Festival, NonFictioNow (Melbourne, Arizona), Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA)(Canterbury, Sheffield, West Chester), and THE POOL: Transnational Creatives (Stockholm).
- Iyer, S.,Pang, A.,Carlin, D. (2022). Digital together: Creative writing, collaborative residencies and cultural exchange in a COVID-constrained world In: Text, 26, 1 - 20
- Iyer, S. (2021). Cosmopolitan Creative Writing Pedagogies: First-Person Plural and Writing/Teaching against Offence In: Teaching Creative Writing in Asia, Routledge, New York, United States
- Ramachandran, S. (2021). The Mother Is Dead, Long Live The Mother In: The Bellingham Review United States
- Eng Hun Le, J.,Ramachandran, S. (2021). On not writing back: Cosmopolitan paradoxes in new diasporic Malaysian writing today In: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 57, 665 - 679
- Ramachandran, S. (2021). Mona Fandey's Cassette, or Grey Feather In: Words Without Borders New York, USA
- Iyer, S. (2020). Will the real writer please stand up flawed discursive self-presentation by junot diaz In: Writing and Pedagogy, 11, 377 - 412
- Iyer, S. (2020). The Tiniest House of Time In: Wild Dingo Press Melbourne
- Ramachandran, S. (2019). Translation as style and technique in the hybrid englishes of Raja Rao’s Kanthapura and Eileen Chang’s Lust, caution In: Southeast Asian Review of English (SARE), 56, 45 - 66
- Iyer, S. (2019). Jungle Without Water In: Penang Monthly Book Award shortlist Melbourne Australia
- Iyer, S. (2018). Breaking Boundaries Through Linguistic Aesthetics in The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy The Meteque In: The Writer's Chronicle, , 84 - 88
3 PhD Current Supervisions