Manju Jaidka

Who is Manju Jaidka?

Manju Jaidka is a Professor of English at the Panjab University, Chandigarh, in India. She is regarded as a leading Indian academic, best known for her contribution to Twentieth-Century English and American Poetry, American Studies in India, and World Literatures. She is the author of critical books regarded as standard texts in the field and considers her teaching job as her most important work. One of her main concerns is to forge an international network of like-minded academics for the exchange of scholarship, a task she has been successfully engaged in over the last two decades.

Jaidka is also the Chairperson of the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi. In this capacity she has made a tremendous contribution towards the promotion of literature and culture in Chandigarh.