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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

  1. Writing Between Languages Translation and Multilingualism in Indian Francophone Writing (Book - 2025)
  2. 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

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

Mahadevan, S. (2026). Translating Multilingualism, Composing Multilingual Translations: Reflections on Practice andTheory.. Translation Today, 19(2). doi:10.46623/tt/2025.19.2.ar4

DOI
10.46623/tt/2025.19.2.ar4
Journal article

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

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

<i>Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India</i> . By Jessica Namakkal <i>Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India.</i> By NamakkalJessica. (Columbia Studies in International and Global History.) New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 301 pp., ill.

Mahadevan, S. (2023). <i>Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India</i> . By Jessica Namakkal <i>Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India.</i> By NamakkalJessica. (Columbia Studies in International and Global History.) New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 301 pp., ill.. French Studies, 77(2), 329. doi:10.1093/fs/knad035

DOI
10.1093/fs/knad035
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