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. 

Varma, Vrinda, C.H Hanna and Ali, Sabeer KP. “Error Analysis of Machine Translation for Malayalam Fiction”. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. 2025. Vol 17(1).

Varma, Vrinda and Mohan, Aparna. “Emotion, Memory, and Storytelling: Postmemorial Emotion Work in Vietnamese American Graphic Narratives”, Emotions and Society. Bristol University Press. 2024. Vol. 6(3). 368-382.

Varma, Vrinda. Aithihyamala: Translating Text in Context. Translation Today. 2021 Vol. 15(1). 54-71.

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.

Sashindran, Athira; George Mathew, Reju and Varma, Vrinda.  Decolonising Memories: Exploring Queer Personal and Collective Memories from Archives. Queer Political Assemblages 4.0, a Two-Day International Conference on 'Decolonizing the Queer Movement and Cultures: Politics, Possibilities and Pitfalls,' organised by the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, on 8th and 9th March, 2024.

Mohan, Aparna and Varma, Vrinda. “The Re-seen Past: History, Memory and Trauma in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” at the International Conference The Politics of Memory and History: Beyond the Postcolonial and the Postmodern, organized by the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Central University of Kerala. March 2023. 

Varma, Vrinda. “Cultural Memory and Collective Memory: Social Media and the Memory Construction of Sadya” at the Dan ThottakkaraMemorial 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 WorldsCongress, 17-22 August 2014 HICC, Hyderabad INDIA.

Varma, Vrinda. Reading Images in the Language Classroom”. Paper presented at the NationalSeminar, The English and Foreign Languages University. 2010

Varma. Vrinda. Constructing Women Identities through Food Memoirs. Odysseys  of Plates and Palates:Food, Society and Sociality. Inter-Disciplinary Press. Book Chapter. 2015

The Food Woman Connection. Is Food Really a Woman's Thing? Making Sense of Food: Constructing Culinary and Cultural Identities. Brill. Book Chapter. 2015

Varma, Vrinda. Lore, Legends and Folktales from Kerala: Selections from the  Aithihyamala .Trans. DC Books. Kottayam. 2020. ISBN: 978-8194834885. (Book) 

Varma, Vrinda. Khaleefa Umar and Other Moral Stories. Trans. Mango Books. 2020.  ISBN: 978-9353903497  

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. Tales from Panchatantra (Translated from Malayalam), Mango Books. 2010. ISBN: 9788126450428. 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.  

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)

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. Teresas'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 Qulaitative 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. (Panelist) Christ Deemed to be University. Delhi.

June 2021: Talk on “Gems of Indian Literature: Aithihyamala”, Prajyothi Nikethan College, Pudukkad.

March 2021: “Growing up to be a Feminist”. Invited Talk on Women’s Day, NSS Training College, Ottappalam, Palakkad.