2024. PEN/Heim Translation Grant Winner

2015. Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Boston University.

2012. UGC-JRF .Junior Research Fellowship.

2007. University 3rd Rank, B.A English Model III. Mahatama Gandhi University, Kottayam. 

• Mohan, Aparna, and Vrinda Varma. "The Re-seen Past: Refugee Stories and Postmemorial Revisionism in Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous." American, British and Canadian Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, 2026, pp. 70–95, https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2026-0006.
• Hanna, C. H., Sabeerali K.P and Vrinda Varma. "Error Analysis of Machine Translation for Malayalam Fiction." Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, vol. 17, no. 1, 2025, https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n1.01.
• Mohan, Aparna, and Vrinda Varma. "Emotion, Memory, and Storytelling: Postmemorial Emotion Work in Vietnamese American Graphic Narratives." Emotions and Society, vol. 6, no. 3, 2024, pp. 368–82, https://doi.org/10.1332/26316897Y2024D000000043.
• Varma, Vrinda. "Aithihyamala: Translating Text in Context." Translation Today, vol. 15, no. 1, 2021, pp. 54–71, https://doi.org/10.46623/tt/2021.15.1.ar3.
• Varma, Vrinda. "Constructing Women Identities through Food Memoirs." Odysseys of Plates and Palates: Food, Society and Sociality, edited by Simeon S. Magliveras and Catherine Gallin, Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2015, pp. 137-146, https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848883246_014.
• Varma, Vrinda. "The Food Woman Connection: Is Food Really a Woman's Thing?" Making Sense of Food: Constructing Culinary and Cultural Identities, edited by Sally Baho and Gregory Katsas. Brill, 2015. ISBN: 1848880111 

• Varma, Vrinda. “Where Is The Mess? Performativity, Fear Of Failure, And The Disappearance Of Authentic Engagement In Digitally Saturated Classrooms”. Virtual Presentation, ICOAH-The 13th International Conference on Arts and Humanities. 10th - 11th September 2026 | Bali, Indonesia
• Varma, Vrinda. "Academics Anonymous: A Series Of Autoethnographic Comics". Curiosity Conference. IIT Gandhinagar. March 21-22, 2026. 
• Varma. Varma. Digital Belonging: Collective Memory, Identity, and Community in Networked Spaces. INMS 2025. (Shortlisted for best paper). October 2025.
• Mohan, Aparna and Varma, Vrinda. Mobilizing Refugee Memory Through Podcasting: A Study Of The Vietnamese Boat People Podcast. Memory Studies Association 9th Annual Conference Charles University, Prague – July 14–18, 2025
• Varma, Vrinda. Exploring Curated Absences: Indian Momfluencers on Instagram and Prosthetic Memory. Code Culture & Critique: New Junctures in Digital Humanities. IIST Thiruvananthapuram. 11-13 June 2025.
• Varma, Vrinda. “Cultural Memory and Collective Memory: Social Media and the Memory Construction of Sadya” at the Dan Thottakkara Memorial National Seminar, 2022, at Sacred Heart College, Thevara.
• Varma, Vrinda. “Food, Performativity, Subjectivity and Social Media”. at the Food, Memory Machines Workshop organized by the Indian Network for Memory Studies, IIT Madras. 17-20 August 2021.
• Varma, Vrinda. “What is Cooking in the Gendered Kitchen? Cooking as Performance and Cooking as Performativity”. International Conference on “Space, Spatiality and Performance” CPRACSIS. Feb 7,8 2015.
• Varma, Vrinda. “Imaging the Indian Woman through Television Advertisements”, Women’s Worlds Congress, 17-22 August 2014 HICC, Hyderabad, INDIA.
• Varma, Vrinda. Reading Images in the Language Classroom”. Paper presented at the National Seminar, The English and Foreign Languages University. 2010

• Varma, Vrinda. Alingam. Yoda Press. (Forthcoming). 
• Varma, Vrinda. Lore, Legends and Folktales from Kerala: Selections from the Aithihyamala. Trans. DC Books. Kottayam. 2020. ISBN: 978-8194834885. 
• Varma, Vrinda. Khaleefa Umar and Other Moral Stories. Trans. Mango Books. 2020. ISBN: 978-9353903497  
• Varma, Vrinda. Tales from Panchatantra (Translated from Malayalam), Mango Books. 2010. ISBN: 9788126450428. 
• Varma, Vrinda. The Donkey in Tiger-Skin & Other Stories. Mango Books. 2024. ISBN: 978-9362549174
• Varma, Vrinda. The Crow And The Mouse & Other Stories. Mango Books. 2024. ISBN: 978-9362540348
• Varma, Vrinda. The Thief And The Ghost & Other Stories. Mango Books. 2024. ISBN:  978-9362543028
• Varma, Vrinda, et al. Fables from the Animal Kingdom. Mango Books 2019. ISBN: 978- 9352829019. Book.  
• Varma, Vrinda, et al. Grandma’s Treasury of Tales. Mango Books. 2019. ISBN: 9789- 352829538. Book.  
• Varma, Vrinda. The English Express  Grade 2, Mango Books (D.C Books).  2014. ISBN-13: 978-8126442638. Book.  
• Varma, Vrinda. The English Express  Grade 3, Mango Books (D.C Books),  2014. ISBN-13: 978-8126442690. Book.  

FRG

Faculty Research Grant: Motherhood Memory Project. INR 5,00,000

Research Group

2022. Postmemory and Intergenerational Trauma in Contemporary South East Asian American Literature. Full time. (Ongoing)

2023. Cultural Hybridity and the Production of Indian English: A Corpus of Malayalam Literature in English Translation . Full time.(Ongoing)

2023.Sexualities in Memories: A Study on Queer Narratives In Kerala. Full time. (Ongoing) Co-Supervision with Dr. Reju George Mathew.

2023. Reading City as Text: An Urban landscape Interpretation of Select Indian Graphic Novels. Full time. (Ongoing)

2023. Dignifying The Social Perception of Disability: Exploring The Experiences of the Disabled. Part Time. (Ongoing)

2024.  Mothers in Dystopia : Shifts in Maternal Identity and Autonomy in South Asian Dystopian Fiction. Full Time (Ongoing)

• September 2026. Inaugural Keynote on "South Asia: Knowledge, Power and Imagination". At the two-day international conclave, Thinking South Asia, hosted by KAHM UNITY WOMENS' COLLEGE, MANJERI, 30 September 2026. 
• August 2026. Pedagogy for the Gen Z classroom. Session at FDP. St. Xavier’s Arts and Science College, Calicut. August 18, 2026.
• July 2026: One-day workshop on translation. Technical Sessions 1 and 2. B.C.M College, Kottayam. 16 July 2026.
• October 2025: "Remembering in the Age of Platforms: Digital Memory Studies and Everyday Life", organised by the Research Centre in English in collaboration with IQAC, St. Aloysius College, Elthuruth. 9th October 2025.
• May 2025: Workplace Communication. One-day workshop on 'Leadership Training by NFLP Faculty'. 14th May 2025 
• January 2025: ‘Translation as Art and Translation as Labour’ on 29th January 2025, as part of the HSS Lecture Series conducted by the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Puducherry.
• December 2024: “Reading Culinary Narratives” International Conference on Culinary Literature, Department of English, Holy Cross Institute of Management and Technology, Calicut
• May 2024: Resource Person; Subject Specific Training Programme (English). Bhavans Kochi Kendra.
• March 2024. Beyond the All: Redefining Success in Your Own Words. Online Plenary for International Women's Day.St. Teresa's College (Autonomous). Ernakulam.
• December 2023: Memory Studies: Research Possibilities and Implications. Session Plenary. 3 day National Seminar. Govt. Arts and Science College, Meenchanda.
• November 2023: Reimagining the Narratives of Alterity: Politics, Aesthetics and the Contemporary. Session Plenary at National Seminar. Govt. Arts and Science College, Kondotty
• June 2023: Perspectives in Qualitative Research. Session Plenary at 2 day Research Methodology Workshop, Sree Kerala Varma College, Thrissur. 
• March 2023: “Literature for Our Times” invited talk at Zamorin’s Guruvayurappan College, Kozhikode.
• November 2022: "Women in/in Literature" Littalks Intercollegiate Lecture Series. St. Joseph's Arts and Science College, Pavaratty.
• October 2021: "Linguistic Diversity in India: United in Translation. (Panellist) Christ Deemed to be University. Delhi NCR.
• June 2021: Talk on “Gems of Indian Literature: Aithihyamala”, Prajyothi Niketan College, Pudukkad.
• March 2021: “Growing up to be a Feminist”. Invited Talk on Women’s Day, NSS Training College, Ottappalam, Palakkad.