Dr Sheela Mahadevan
BA (Hons) (Oxon), Mst (Oxon), PGCE (London), PhD (London), FHEA (London)

Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies
Languages, Cultures and Film

Part of
School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Contact

Sheela.Mahadevan@liverpool.ac.uk

Research outputs

Selected research outputs

Writing Between Languages Translation and Multilingualism in Indian Francophone Writing (Book - 2025)
Lakshmi's Secret Diary: A Novel, by Ari Gautier, translated by Sheela Mahadevan, with a translator's afterword (Book - 2024)

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2026

An Alternative Vision of Multilingual India: Ari Gautier’s Indian Francophone Literature

Mahadevan, S. (2026). An Alternative Vision of Multilingual India: Ari Gautier’s Indian Francophone Literature. In National Multilingualism in the Horn of Africa and South Asia (pp. 191-209). doi:10.1007/978-3-032-13772-2_9

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-13772-2_9
: Chapter

Reports on Conferences and Other Activities

Mahadevan, S. (2026). Reports on Conferences and Other Activities. French Studies Bulletin, 47(1), 18. doi:10.3828/fsb.2025.47.1.4

DOI: 10.3828/fsb.2025.47.1.4
: Journal article

2025

Writing Between Languages Translation and Multilingualism in Indian Francophone Writing

Mahadevan, S. (2025). Writing Between Languages Translation and Multilingualism in Indian Francophone Writing.

: Book

Translating Multilingualism, Composing Multilingual Translations: Reflections on Practice and Theory

Mahadevan, S. (2025). Translating Multilingualism, Composing Multilingual Translations: Reflections on Practice and Theory. Translation Today, 19(2), 73-94. doi:10.46623/tt/2025.19.2.ar4

DOI: 10.46623/tt/2025.19.2.ar4
: Journal article

2024

Lakshmi's Secret Diary: A Novel, by Ari Gautier, translated by Sheela Mahadevan, with a translator's afterword

Mahadevan, S. (2024). Lakshmi's Secret Diary: A Novel, by Ari Gautier, translated by Sheela Mahadevan, with a translator's afterword (1 ed.). New York: Columbia University Press.

: Book

2023

'Translation and Creative Writing: Anita Desai's Translator Translated'

Mahadevan, S. (2023). 'Translation and Creative Writing: Anita Desai's Translator Translated'. In M. Miletich (Ed.), Transfiction: Characters in Search of Translation Studies (pp. 87-103). Delaware, US: Vernon Press.

: Chapter

Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India. By Jessica Namakkal

Mahadevan, S. (2023). Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India. By Jessica Namakkal. French Studies, 77(2), 329. doi:10.1093/fs/knad035

DOI: 10.1093/fs/knad035
: Book Review