India in Canada: Canada in India Tapa dura - 2013

Antonia Navarro-Tejero, PhD in English, teaches English Literature at Universidad de Cordoba, Spain, where she also chairs the Permanent Seminar on India Studies. Her research interests include transnational gender studies, and postcolonial theory and criticism with emphasis on India and its diaspora. She is the author of the books Globalizing Dissent: Essays on Arundhati Roy (Routledge, 2009), Gender and Caste in the Anglophone-Indian Novels of Arundhati Roy and Githa Hariharan: Feminist Issues in Cross-Cultural Perspectives (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005), Talks on Feminism: Indian Women Activists Speak for Themselves (Sarup and Sons, 2008), among others. She is the Founder-President of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies (AEEII). Taniya Gupta is a PhD scholar enrolled at the University of Granada, where she is researching Audiovisual Translation in the context of Indian cinema and culture. She is a professional translator and has actively participated in theatre groups, both in India and in Spain. She has presented papers on film and culture studies at various conferences and has also conducted several workshops on subtitling, Indian cinema and culture in Spanish universities. She is the present Secretary of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies (AEEII).