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Prof. Maya Vinai

Associate Professor,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Ocean Humanities, Postcolonial Literature
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India
mayavinai@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
+91 40 66303616

Publications in National and International Journals

  • Vinai, Maya & Nithish Reddy G. Reimagining the East African Middle - Men in the 17th C Indian Ocean through Idris: An interview with author Anita Nair. Asia’s Maritime History and Identity at Cultural Crossroads- Dr Sreedevi Santhosh et al (Ed’s) London: Routledge, 2026 pg xxv- xxviii
  • Mithuna, S. M., and Maya Vinai. “Chenkalchoola: Reconfiguring the Social Imaginary of an Indian Hinterland.” Literary and Cultural Representations of the Hinterlands, edited by Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, Dominika Ferens, Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice, and Marcin Tereszewski, Routledge, 2024.
  • Maya Vinai & S.M. Mithuna. A Migrant’s Perspective on the Middle East: An Interview with Benyamin. Wasafiri. 40:1 (2025):108–113. Scopus Indexed. DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2025.2435172
  • Vinai, Maya, and S.M. Mithuna. A Comparative Study of Hunger and Satiation of Hunger in the Literary Works of M.T. Vasudevan Nair and Perumal Murugan. Global Performance Studies, 6(1–2), 2023. https://doi.org/10.33303/gpsv6n1-2a140
  • Maya Vinai & Mithuna S.M. Revisiting Sir Robert Bristow’s ‘India’: A Postcolonial Analysis of the Cochin Saga. International Journal of Maritime History (2023). https://doi.org/10.1177/08438714231180345
  • Hemachandran, R. & Vinai, M. Traversing the Inner Courtyard to the Public Sphere. Journal of International Women's Studies 25.5 (2023). https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol25/iss5/5
  • Hemachandran, R., & Vinai, M. A Postcolonial Reading of Donald Sinderby’s The Jewel of Malabar. Asian Review of World Histories 11(2), 2023. https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10028
  • Hemachandran, R & Vinai, M. Women in Conflict Zones. IUP Journal of English Studies 18.1 (2023).
  • Maya Vinai & Shabin Ahmed. Annam Mata Cha Brahma. SARE (2022). https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no2.8
  • Maya Vinai. Health and Healing. Rupkatha Journal 13.2 (2021). https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.06
  • Maya Vinai. Challenging the Cosmopolitanism of Kochi. European Journal of Creative Practices 4.2 (2021). https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/12134
  • Maya Vinai & Revathy Hemachandran. A Fine Balance. IUP Journal of English Studies 16.1 (2021).
  • Revathy Hemachandran & Maya Vinai. Locating ‘Saguna’. Re-Markings 19.2 (2020).
  • Maya Vinai et al. We Love and Live on a Fissure. Writers in Conversation 6.1 (2019). https://doi.org/10.22356/wic.v6i1.38
  • Maya Vinai & M.G. Prasuna. Circumscribed by Space and Time. Asiatic 11.2 (2017). https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/ajell/article/view/1074/763
  • Maya Vinai & Vinai Sankunni. Negotiating Faith and Culture. Rupkatha Journal 9.3 (2017). http://rupkatha.com/V9/n3/v9n320.pdf
  • Maya Vinai. From Kitchen to Boardrooms. The Quest 31.2 (2017).
  • Maya Vinai & M.G. Prasuna. Challenging the Stereotype of Political Neutrality. IUP Journal of English Studies 14.4 (2016).
  • Maya Vinai & M.G. Prasuna. Revisiting Mythic Tales. Re-Markings 15.2 (2016).
  • Maya Vinai & M.G. Prasuna. Re-Mapping the Anxieties of the Gulf Diaspora. South Asian Review 36.2 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2015.11933021
  • Jayashree Hazarika & Maya Vinai. Representation of the Middle Class in the Works of Vikram Seth. The Quest 29.2 (2015).
  • Jayashree Hazarika & Maya Vinai. A Comparative Study of Anita Nair and Vikram Seth. IUP Journal of English Studies 10.3 (2015).
  • Maya Vinai & Jayashree Hazarika. Re-assessing the Kerala Model Woman. Asiatic 9.1 (2015).
  • Maya Vinai & Jayashree Hazarika. Caste Hegemony versus Communism. The Quest 28.2 (2014).
  • M.G. Prasuna & Maya Vinai. Theatre Art Techniques for Professional Development. Humanities and Social Sciences Review 3.2 (2014).
  • Maya Vinai et al. Globalization of Cuisines. International Journal of English (2014).
  • M.G. Prasuna, Maya Vinai & Aruna Lolla. Nonsense Verse in English Language. International Journal of English (2013).
  • Maya Vinai. Diasporic Consciousness in the Works of Anita Nair. IJFEL (2013).
  • Maya Vinai & M.G. Prasuna. Parsi Sensibility. Criterion (2013).
  • Maya Vinai. Campus Politics in the Works of Malayatoor Ramakrishnan. Muse India.

Reviewed articles for Journals

  • The Comparatist (Published by University of North Carolina Press)
  • Journal of Religion and Health (Published by Springer)
  • The Quest
  • Island Studies Journal

Book Published

  • Maya Vinai. Caste and Gender in the Works of Anita Nair. New Delhi: Prestige Publishers, 2014.

Book Chapters

  • Vinai, Maya & Bhasura Sangeethika. The Divine Lore of Marakkalathamma: Deciphering the Folk Sources for Maritime Trade and Port City Dynamics in Indian Folk in the Postmodern Era: Non-Publication, Non-Translation and Literary Theft. Delhi: Authorspress, 2025.
  • Maya Vinai & Mithuna S.M. The Tiger’s Vanquish: Representation of IPKF’s Role in the Sri Lankan Civil War in Ayathurai Santhan’s novel The Whirlwind. In War Zones’s Enigma: A Study of Victors, Victims and Values through Select Novels in War Zones. Ghaziabad: Empyreal, 2023.
  • Maya Vinai & Revathy Hemachandran. Cosmopolitanism and Trade: Recreating the Port City of Muziris through Sethumadhavan’s The Saga of Muziris. In The City Speaks: Urban Spaces in Indian Literature (Eds. Subahish Bhattacharjee & Goutam Karmakar). London: Routledge, 2022.
  • Maya Vinai. Assessing the Veracity of the Gulf Dreams: An Interview with Author Benyamin. In Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere (Eds. Stacey Balkan & Swaralipi Nandi). Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2021, pp. 237–249.
  • Maya Vinai. Stereotyping in the Works of Rohinton Mistry. In Rohinton Mistry: The Writer Par Excellence, ed. Suman Bala. New Delhi: Prestige, 2013.
  • Maya Vinai & Jayashree Hazarika. Globalization in the Works of Vikram Seth. In Indian-American Diasporic Literature. New Delhi: Prestige, 2013.

Book Review

  • Maya Vinai. Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Spaces in a Holy City by Madhuri Desai. Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 10.2 (2018): 263–264. (Scopus Indexed)
  • Maya Vinai. The Silent Witness (2019) by Anuradha. Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 12.2 (2020). (Scopus Indexed)

Forthcoming (Book Chapter)

  • Mithuna S.M & Maya Vinai. Chenkalchoola: Reconfiguring the Social Imaginary of an Indian Hinterland. In Literary and Cultural Representations of the Hinterland. Routledge, 2024.
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