Dr. Jyoti Chawla

Associate Professor

Dr. Jyoti Chawla is Associate Professor in School of Translation Studies and Training, IGNOU. She joined IGNOU on February 3, 2009. Creative writer and critic in Hindi, she is a major voice in contemporary Hindi writing. She did her B.A, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. from University of Delhi.

Her areas of interest are Translation Studies, Gender in Translation, Culture Studies and Modern Hindi Literature.
Author/Editor/Translator of 7 books. Jyoti Chawla is a strong voice contemporary Hindi writing, and believes in bringing peripheral issues of Society to the fore through her writing. Presently, she is working on her upcoming book.

Few works are translated, published and appreciated in Marathi, Punjabi, Oriya, and English etc. Besides books, a good number of papers/Research Papers published in Journals, books and periodicals of repute. 8 entries on literature, translation and criticism published in Bhartiya Sahitya Kosh, Kolkata. She has been awarded with Sheela Siddhantkar Smriti Samman, 2014 for her first book Maa ka Jawan Chehra and J.C.Joshi Shabd Sadhak Kavita Samman 2018 for poetry writing.

Dr. Chawla is Programme Coordinator of P.G. Diploma in Translation (PGDT), P.G. Certificate in Malayalam-Hindi Translation (PGCMHT), P.G. Certificate in Bangla-Hindi Translation (PGCBHT) and vuqokn ,oa :ikarj.k esa LukrdksÙkj izek.k&i= (PGCAR). Besides, she has designed and developed various courses of M.A. (Translation Studies), M.Phil. & Ph.D. in Translation Studies. She has contributed a good number of units for SOTST and SOH, IGNOU. Dr. Chawla has represented Hindi and contemporary Hindi writing on various forums through her creative and critical writing. She has presented papers, delivered lectures in various National and International Seminars, Doordarshan and All India Radio.