UoH alumna appointed as VC of Avinashilingam University for Women

Hyderabad: Prof. V Bharathi Harishankar, alumna of the Department of English, University of Hyderabad (UoH), and presently a member of the School Board of Humanities, has been appointed Vice Chancellor of Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore. Prof. Harishankar was a PhD scholar at the Department of English, UoH, from 1989 to 1993. She was previously […]

Hyderabad: Prof. V Bharathi Harishankar, alumna of the Department of English, University of Hyderabad (UoH), and presently a member of the School Board of Humanities, has been appointed Vice Chancellor of Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore.

Prof. Harishankar was a PhD scholar at the Department of English, UoH, from 1989 to 1993. She was previously the Head of Women’s Studies, the Director of IQAC and Director HRDC at the University of Madras, the UoH said on Wednesday.

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A recognized postcolonial studies scholar, she was also instrumental in setting up the Gender Lab for Diversity and Inclusiveness Education (GLIDE), the first of its kind in the country, in collaboration with Sutherland Global Services at the University of Madras, it added.

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