Nandini Sahu

Her areas of research interest cover Indian Literature, New Literatures, Folklore and Culture Studies, American Literature, Children’s Literature and Critical Theory. She is also professor of English at the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India. She has written several books including poetry in English. Her poetry has been published in India, US, UK, Africa and Pakistan. She has won three gold medals in English literature and also the award of All India Poetry Contest in 1993 at Saint Xavier College, Ranchi and Shiksha Ratna Purashkar.

• Name — Nandini Sahu • Born — 23 July 1973 • Birthplace — G. Udayagiri, Orissa, India • Occupation — Professor • Alma Mater — Visva-Bharati University • Occupation — Writer, poet, critic • Office — Vice-Chancellor at Hindi University, Howrah • Term Start1 — 22 December 2024 • Predecessor1 — Vijay Kumar Bharti • Office2 — Professor at Indira Gandhi National Open University • Term Start2 — 2006

Sahu was born on 23 July 1973 in G. Udayagiri in Orissa, India. Her parents were teachers in Indian local schools. She and her five sisters grew up in an obedience life. She accomplished her doctorate in English literature under the guidance of Niranjan Mohanty, Professor of English, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. She is also obtaining D.Litt, on Native American Literature. She is serving as Professor of English language at the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. She has also attended national seminars.

Sahu has written several books including poetry collections. Her writings are based on the subjects of Indian-English Literature, American Literature, English Language Teaching (ELT), Folklore and Culture Studies and also Children's literature. The Hindi Translator Dinesh Kumar Mali had translated her poetry Sita in Hindi, her representative poems as well as her stories. She has designed and developed programmes on Folklore and Culture studies for IGNOU. She is also the editor-in-chief of Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature And Language, New Delhi. Moreover, Sahu has delivered lectures on various subjects in India and abroad.

• The Other Voice, a collection of poems, 2004 • The Silence, 2005 • Silver Poems on My Lips, 2009 • Sukamaa and Other Poems Published by The Poetry Society of India, Gurgaon • Suvarnarekha: An anthology of Indian women poets • Sita (A Poem) • Dynamics of Children’s Literature • Zero Point • Re-reading Jayanta Mahapatra: Selected Poems_ • सीता महाकाव्य: हिन्दी अनुवाद_ • A Song Half & Half_ • Shedding-Metaphors_ • Medusa (2025)

Nandini Sahu is recorded as writer, poet and literary scholar.

Sahu’s works include;

• Recollection as Redemption, 2004 • Post Modernist Delegations in English Language Teaching: The Quixotic Deluge, 2005 • The Post Colonial Space: Writing the Self and The Nation, 2008 • Folklore and the Alternative Modernities(Vol I & II), 2012