Professor N Rama Devi Murru is Professor of English at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Formerly the Head of the Departments of Indian and World Literatures and Commonwealth Literary Studies she has also served as the Dean of the School of Literary Studies. She is also the Member, Executive Council of the English and Foreign Languages University presently.

She is the author of the book, The Novels of V S Naipaul: Quest for Order and Identity and has published several research papers in the area of Modern Fiction and New Literatures. She has edited an anthology of essays, Postcoloniality in Transition: Essays on Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Globalization (2020) and Co-edited the book, Seduction of Feminism: The Masquerades of Global Capitalism. Authors Press: Chennai, 2022.

Professor Rama Devi was also a Visiting Fellow at Technische Universitat Dresden, TUD, Germany in 2010 and offered two courses:

1. Postcolonial Studies
2. and Historical Perspectives on Indian Culture and Religion

during the Summer Semester 2010.

Her chief areas of interest are World Literatures, New Literatures, Women’s Writing, Critical Theory, Indian Epics,Modern Intellectual Tradition, Modern/Postmodern Fiction, Childhood Studies, Gender Studies.

World Literatures, Women’s Writing, Postcolonial Studies, Migrant Fiction, Memory Studies, Childhood and Fantasy Studies, Spatial Literary Studies, Arab Resistance Writing, Masculinity Studies,Semiotics and Food Studies, etc.,