G. N. Devy

Who is G. N. Devy?

Ganesh N. Devy, formerly professor of English at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, a renowned literary critic and activist is founder and director of the Tribal Academy at Tejgadh, Gujarat, and director of the Sahitya Akademi’s Project on Literature in Tribal Languages and Oral Traditions. He was educated at Shivaji University, Kolhapur and the University of Leeds, UK. Among his many academic assignments, he has held fellowships at Leeds University and Yale University and has been a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow. He is an active participant in the functioning of Bhasha Academy.

Currently, he is a Professor at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar.