Vandhana Sharma

Vandhana Sharma has been officiating as the Director of the School of Languages and Literature, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University Katra Jammu since 2006. She set up the School of Languages and Literature in Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, launched Postgraduate and Ph.D. programme in English and has been regularly organising various seminars and colloquia in the school. She has attended various conferences, seminars and workshops at national and international levels and has contributed papers to journals published in India and abroad. She constituted the Jammu Chapter of English Language Teachers’ Association of India (ELTAI) and is the coordinator of ELTAI Jammu Chapter. She is also a member of various professional bodies.

She has translated a highly acclaimed Dogri play Bawa Jitto written by Padmashree Prof. Ramnath Shastri into English. She has been assigned translation project by Sahitya Akademi for the English translation of Dogri short stories Dudh, Lahu, Jehr written by Prof. Madan Mohan Sharma. Her areas of interest include Post-colonial Literature, Gender Studies, Translation and Indian Writings in English, particularly Indian English Drama.