Dr. Edu Sherpa

Guest Faculty
Department of English
Darjeeling Hills University

BIO

To be updated.

EDUCATION

PhD in Comparative Literature, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, 2025: The Rise of the Indian Nepali Periodicals: A Historiography from 1900 to 1950

MA in Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, 2016

BA in Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, 2014

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Archival Research; Rare texts; Literary history

EXPERIENCE

Senior Research Fellow in Centre for Comparative Literature, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan from 2023-2025

PUBLICATIONS

Sherpa, Edu. “Problematizing Indian Nepali Literature through the Study of Nepali Periodicals”. Shikshan Sanshodhan, vol. 7 no.4, 2024, pp.11-14, DOI: 10.2018/SS/202404004, https://shikshansanshodhan.researchculturesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/SS202404004-min.pdf

Sherpa, Edu. “Mapping the Trajectory of Translation in Indian Nepali Literature”. vol.7 , no.10 , 2024, pp. 42-45, DOI: 10.2018/SS/202410011, https://shikshansanshodhan.researchculturesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/SS202410011-min.pdf

Translator Contributor in Folk Tales from Sikkim: https://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/folktales-from-sikkim/

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

CLAI: XVI Biennial International Conference 2023

Comparative Literature and Translation: Mapping Milestones, Tracing Trajectories 2024

National Workshop on Translation: Translating Folktales from Sikkim.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Awarded Junior Research Fellowship UGC-NET- JRF in 2017

MEMBERSHIPS

CLAI (Comparative Literature Association of India) Kolkata Chapter