Prof. Sonya Surabhi Gupta

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Prof. Sonya Surabhi Gupta is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Her research interests focus on knowledge flows in the Global South, with special reference to Latin America and India in a cross-cultural context. Her most recent publications include the co-authored book Decolonizing Development: Liberatory Epistemologies from India and Latin America (Routledge 2023, with Rahul A. Sirohi) and the edited volume Subalternities in India and Latin America: Dalit Autobiographies and the Testimonio (Routledge, 2022). She is also Hindi translator of works by Spanish and Latin American writers. In 1987, she established the Centre for Hispanic Studies at the prestigious English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, which she headed till 2006, when she was invited by the Jamia Milia Islamia to establish the Centre for Spanish and Latin American Studies, of which she has been the founder director. She is currently the President of the Association of Indian Hispanists.