Understanding Disability: Interdisciplinary Critical Approaches

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Ranu Uniyal is a bilingual poet.  She is Professor and Head Department of English University of Lucknow. She has written four books of poetry- Across the Divide (2006) December Poems (2012) The Day We Went Strawberry Picking In Scarborough (2018) and Saeeda Ke Ghar (Hindi poems 2021).  She was a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Hull United Kingdom. Her areas of interest are women and literature post colonial studies and disability studies. She has published extensively in India and abroad. Her major publications include: Women and Landscape: The Fiction of Margaret Drabble and Anita Desai (2000) Women in Indian Writing: From Difference to Diversity (2009) coedited Raja Raos Kanthapura (2007) Reading Gandhi: Perspectives in the 21st Century(2022) and Mahatma Gandhi: Essays on Life and Literature (2023). She coedited a Special issue onSouth Asian Womens Writing ZAA quarterly of Language Literature and Culture 2018.  She also works for people with special needs in Lucknow (PYSSUM.org). Fatima Rizvi is Professor in the Department of English and Modern European languages University of Lucknow. Her areas of academic interest include colonial and postcolonial studies translation studies and Urdu studies. Her research papers have been published in journals of national and international repute and in anthologies of criticism. She translates Urdu and Hindi. She has published Beyond the stars and Other Stories (2021 Women Unlimited) a translation of Qurratulain Hyders Sitaron se Aage (1947). She is a Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize and Jawad Memorial Prize awardee.