Sonya Surabhi Gupta is professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages, at Jamia Millia Islamia.

Her research interests focus on knowledge flows in the Global South, with special reference to Latin America and India in a cross-cultural context. Her most recent publications include the co-authored book Decolonizing Development: Liberatory Epistemologies from India and Latin America (Routledge 2023, with Rahul A. Sirohi) and the edited volume Subalternities in India and Latin America: Dalit Autobiographies and the Testimonio (Routledge, 2022). An edited volume titled Connected Histories, Shared Present: Cross-cultural Experiences between Latin America, Caribbean and India is forthcoming in 2025 from Tulika Books, New Delhi, in June 2025. She is also Hindi translator of works by Spanish and Latin American writers like García Márquez, Rodolfo Walsh, Carlos Fuentes, among others.
 

She is a key architect of Spanish and Latin American Studies in India at the institutional level: in 1987, she established the Centre for Hispanic Studies at the prestigious English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, which she headed till 2006, when she was invited by the Jamia Millia Islamia to establish the Centre for Spanish and Latin American Studies, of which she has been the founder Director.