Indian Writing in English Online at The University of Hyderabad is the world’s first peer-reviewed Open Educational Resource for the genre. IWE, now an established constituent of academic curricula worldwide but also a popular canon of works, has some of the most recognized names in literary studies today.
IWE Online as a platform brings together primary texts, survey essays, biographical notes on authors, book reviews. The OER includes topical and niche essays – on Medical Humanities, Literature from Northeastern India, for now – on specific topics.
Combining the features of a Journal, with rigorous peer review and editorial processes, and an OER, IWE Online’s materials are designed to cater to the specialist reader and the general interested reader.
IWE Online also commissions art work to accompany the primary texts and critical essays, interviews and author-questionnaires, and incorporates audio and video materials – talks from various workshops, lectures and events organized under its aegis – into the site, thereby making it a multimodal Journal-cum-OER.
IWE Online is authoritative and accessible, and is the definitive scholarly resource for one of the largest corpus in literature in the postcolonial era.
With a formidable Editorial Advisory Board and a large team of peer-reviewers from all over the world, IWE Online has acquired the status of a reliable scholarly resource within a year of its launch.
Origins
IWE Online began as an initiative funded by the Institution of Eminence (IoE) project of the University of Hyderabad, with Anna Kurian and Pramod K Nayar as Principal and Co-Principal Investigator respectively. It aimed to be the single authoritative academic web resource for any student or a general reader seeking information on the subject of Indian Writing in India. Designed as a not-for-profit resource, it brought together texts from the major genres, scholarly essays and surveys.
Having organized numerous events for students, IWE Online also placed talks and discussions by scholars who conducted the events, on the website.
Editorial Board
Editors:
Anna Kurian
Pramod K Nayar
Department of English,
The University of Hyderabad
Editorial Advisory Board:
Professor K Narayana Chandran
IoE Research Chair Professor in Literary and Cultural Theory
Department of English,
The University of Hyderabad
Dr Graziano Krätli
Digital Projects & Technology Librarian
Divinity Library,
Yale University
Professor Nandana Dutta
Director, Gauhati University Institute of North-East India Studies
Department of English,
Gauhati University
Editorial Assistant:
Atul V Nair
Department of English, The University of Hyderabad