Sowmya Dechamma CC teaches at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad. She teaches and researches in the areas of Cultural Discourses in Contemporary India, Translation Studies, Literatures of India, Minority Language and Politics, and Kodava performative cultures.

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Her articles have appeared in international journals and national newspapers. She taught at the City University of New York as part of her Fulbright during 2019 – 20 and was a Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Southampton during 2010-11. She has a co-edited book Cinemas of South India published by OUP in 2010. Her recent monograph/book Languages of Minority: Orality, Translation and Desiring English is also published by the Oxford University Press in 2024.