Hemalatha Nagarajan has an MA in English from Madras University and M.Litt and Ph.D from CIEFL, Hyderabad. She was awarded the British Chevening scholarship for a Post-Doctoral research programme at University College, London in 1994. Her Ph.D work was published as a book titled: A Theory of Post-Syntactic Phonology. Her areas of interest in linguistics are phonology, syntax, neurolinguistics and language acquisition. Apart from research articles in her area of interest, namely, linguistics, she has published books on grammar and general textbooks. She has worked as a resource person in a number of workshops and teacher training programmes in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Germany and the United States. She is a Professor in the department of Linguistics and Contemporary English at the English and Foreign Languages University (formerly known as Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages), Hyderabad.