Prema Jagannathan is an Associate Professor of English (retired) and former Dean of Academic Affairs, Stella Maris College, Chennai. Her areas of interest include Indian Fiction, Bhakti Literature, Translation Studies and Communicative English. She is the author of The Mahabharata and Contemporary Indian Fiction, published by Prestige Books, New Delhi (2010). She has translated a few short stories, plays and non-fictional works from Tamil into English and vice versa. A few to name are translation of P Sivakami's Kurukku Vettu along with CT Indra, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi (2014) and translation of S Ramakrishnan's Urulum Paaraikal in Four Tamil Plays published by Orient BlackSwan and Stella Maris College 2014. Among her published work is also the Key to JC Nesfield's English Grammar and Composition, co-authored by Sharada Bhanu and published by Macmillan India.