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Uma Damodar Sridhar

Uma Damodar Sridhar is currently Head, Department of French and Francophone Studies at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad and teaches French language, linguistics, teaching methodology, and translation. She worked at the Alliance Française of Hyderabad as a teacher and translator (1988-2000) and as the in-charge of the translation bureau and deputy director (2005-2009). She has published articles and translations in national and international journals and is a co-translator of an anthology of poems Butterfly Caresses (2015). She has been associated with the Hyderabad Literary Festival since 2012.