Prof. (Dr) Bharathi Harishankar is the Vice Chancellor Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, (Deemed to be University), Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
She has been Professor of English and Founding Head of the Department of Women’s Studies, University of Madras.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, UK Dr.Bharathi’s research interests include Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies, Literary Theory, Translation, Web Based Pedagogy and Open Educational Resources. She has 118 publications including books, edited volumes, textbooks, articles and translations in national and international journals. She has presented invited talks in over 100 conferences, most notably at Cambridge University, UK and La Pietra Dialogues at New York University, Florence. She has successfully guided 16 M.Phil &14 Ph.D scholars. Recently, Dr Bharathi was instrumental in setting up a Gender Lab, the first of its kind in the country, to offer online workshops on gender sensitization, in collaboration with Sutherland Global Services. She has designed a Soft Skills course on Gender Sensitization and Workplace Readiness.
She is a lifetime member of EFSLE and also the Joint Secretary of its Tamil Nadu Executive Council.