Susie is currently member of the Executive Committee at Anveshi. She is professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Her research interests include feminism, cultural theory and history of India, dalit studies, and cultural studies of health. She has been part of the Subaltern Studies editorial collective since 1992.
Susie is one of the founders of Stree Shakti Sanghatana and Anveshi. With K. Satyanarayana, she is currently engaged in putting together Dalit writings from South India. The focus of the collection is the resurgence of Dalit Politics in the 1990s.
Susie is on the Advisory Panels of BODHI Centre for Dalit Bahujan Initiatives since 2003, and Trustee, Centre for Studies in Culture and Society, Bangalore since its inception. She has also been on the Advisory Committee on National Biography, National Book Trust, a member of the Governing Council, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, trustee of the India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore, and a member of the Joint Committee for South Asia, Social Science Research Council, New York (SSRC-JCSA).
Honors and Awards
- 1994-96: Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship.
- 1962-65: Uganda Government Merit Scholarship, Makerere College, Uganda.
Select Publications
In press:
- Towards a Critical Medical Practice: Reflections on the Dilemmas of Medical Culture Today. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, forthcoming. Co-editor with Anand Zachariah and R. Srivatsan (on behalf of the CMC Anveshi Collective).
Published:
- New French Feminisms: An Indian Anthology. Delhi: Sage, 2003. Co-editor.
- Subaltern Studies, Vol. 10. Delhi: OUP, 1999. Co-editor.
- “Caste and Desire in the Scene of the Family.” Economic and Political Weekly, XXXI: 22, June 1996.
- “Notes for a Contemporary Theory of Gender,” Subaltern Studies, Vol. 9, 1995. Co-author.
- Subject to Change: Literary Studies in the Nineties. Delhi: Orient Longman, 1994.
- Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present, Vols I and II, Delhi: Oxford University Press, New York: Feminist Press and London: Harper Collins, 1990-1993. Co-editor. (Inspired by WWI, two African scholars, Abena Busia and Tuzyline Allan brought out four volumes of Women Writing Africa in collaboration with the Feminist Press).