1.

Name Pramod K Nayar

2. Designation Professor
3. Educational Qualifications Ph.D
4. Date of Birth ---
5. Department/Centre/School English

6) Area(s) of Research Colonial writings, Human Rights and Literature, Graphic Novels,
Postcolonialism

6. E-mail id pramodknayar@gmail.com
7. Phone No. 040-23133400
8. Mobile No. (Optional) ----
9. Total No. of M.Phil.’s Guided : 7
10. Details of M.Phils Guiding currently: 2

Sl. No Reg. No Candidate’s Name Area of Remarks

Research
1. Afsal M Abubakker Indian Writing Co-supervised
in English with Anna
Kurian

11. Total No. of Ph.Ds Guided: 1

12. Details of Ph.Ds Guiding currently:

Sl. No Reg. No Candidate’s Name Area of Remarks

Research
1 Moumita Chowdhury Postcolonial Co-supervised
Studies with Anna
Kurian
2 Lalduhthlana Saivate Contemporary
Fiction

3 Meenakshi Srihari Cancer across Co-supervised

Media with Anna
Kurian
4 Rukma Prince Pakistani
Women’s
Fiction
5 Manisha Bhadran Occupation Co-supervised
Fiction/West with Anna
Asia  Kurian
6 Sabari Rajan Occupation
Fiction (West
Asia)
7 Akshata S Pai Contemporary Co-supervised
Fiction with Anna
Kurian
8 Sreelakshmy M Postcolonial Co-supervised
Sci-fi with Anna
Kurian

13. Subjects currently teaching

1. MA New Literatures in English II

2. Primary Texts (Ph.D)
3. Knowledge Formations: England, 1600-1800 (Ph.D)

14. Research Papers/Books Published/Edited during 2015-16 & 2016-18 Academic

Years:

Sl. No Title of Paper Journal Co-Author(s) if any

1 Brand Postcolonial: Book ---
‘Third World’ Texts and
the Global. De Gruyter
Open Access, 2019. 
2 Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic: Book ---
Disaster, Precarity, and the
Biopolitical Uncanny. Lexington-
Rowman and Littlefield, 2017
3 The Extreme in Contemporary Book ---
Culture: States of Vulnerability.
Rowman and Littlefield, 2017
4 Human Rights and Book ---
Literature: Writing Rights.
Palgrave-Macmillan,
2016.
5 From Text to Theory: A Book ---
Handbook of Literary and
Cultural Theory. Viva,
2016.
6 The British Raj: Book ---
Keywords. Routledge,
2017.
7 Edited. English Siege and Book ---
Prison Writings: From the
‘Black Hole’ to the
‘Mutiny’. Routledge, 2016.
1.
8 Edited. Indian Travel Book ---
Writing, 1830-1947. 5
volumes. Routledge, 2017.
9 The Indian Graphic Novel, Book ---
Routledge, 2016. 
10 ‘Postcolonial Graphic Lifewriting: Narrative 26.3 ---
Finding My Way and the (2018).
Subaltern Public Sphere’

11 ‘Graphic Science: Trinity and the Rhizomes 34 ---

Art of the Atomic Bomb’ (2018). 
12 ‘Literature (Now) Contains Rupkatha 10.1 ---
Graphic Language: Adaptation, (2018): 4-17.  
Visualization and Transmedia
Texts’,
15 ‘From Documentary Realism to CounterText 4.3 ---
Figurative Realism: Igort's The (2018)
Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks
and the Holodomor’
16 'Biocultural Metrics and the Moral Maria T Grasso ---
Policing of Young People's and Judith
Politics in Contemporary India'. Bessant (ed)
Governing Youth
Politics in the Age
of Surveillance.
London and New
York: Routledge,
2018.

17 1. 'Victims, Bollywood and the Anthony Elliott --=

Construction of a Cele-meme' (ed) The
Routledge
Handbook of
Celebrity Studies.
London and New
York: Routledge,
2018.

18 ‘Biopics: The Year in India’ Biography 40.4 --

(2017): 604-610.

19 ‘Mobility and Insurgent Open Cultural ---

Celebrityhood: The Case of Studies 1.1
Arundhati Roy’ (2017): 46-54.

20 ‘The Human Rights Torture Orbis Litterarum

Novel: Unmade Subjects, 72.4 (2017): 318-
Unmaking Worlds’ 347.
 21 ‘Thhe Compassionate Soccial Asiatic 11..2
Spphere: Nativ
ve Christian (2017): 19
93-217
Auuto/biographhies in Coloonial
Inddia, 1870-19
920’.
22 ‘A
A Postcoloniial Humanitties Rendezvou us
Maanifesto’ Journal off Arts
and Letterrs 43.1
(2017): 111-122

16) Onggoing Reseaarch/Consulltancy Projeects: ----

17) Detaails of deveelopment off E-learning content:

1. MOOCs Course, 2 credits, En nvironmentaal Humanities, UoH.
2. English h Literature of the Rommantic Period
d, 1798-183
32, NPTEL..

18) Detaails of Patennts (if applicable):

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Acaademy Felloowships/Preestigious aw wards (if app
plicable):

19) Visiitor’s Award for Best Research

R in Arts, Humaanities and Social Sciennces, 2018

rporate Respponsibilitiess holding cuurrently:

Corp
20)
Cooordinator, Joournals Celll, UoH-UGC C-CARE
Outtreach/Extennsion activitties (2018):

1. ‘Celebrrity, Charismma and Postt-truth Relattions: Agnoogenesis, Afffect and thee Crisis
of Algoorithmic Gov vernance’, IInternationaal Conferen
nce on Post--truth, DAVV
Collegee, Benares Hindu
H Univ.., Dec 2018.
2. ‘Hosts, Pathogens, “Imaginedd Immunities”: Biosecu urity Narratiives, Ecopreecarity
and the Borders off the Humann’, Lecture, Border Stud dies Series, Raiganj Un niv.,
Nov. 20018.
3. ‘Digitall Wellness: Therapeuticc Citizenshiip and the Rise
R of the E Experimental
21 Public’,, Jyoti NIvaas College, B
Bengaluru, Sept. 2018..
4. ‘Genetiic Prosopography and N Naturecultuure in Contem mporary Inddia’, Speciaal
Lecturee, Humanitiees and Sociaal Sciences, IIT Madraas, Sept. 20118.
5. ‘The Prrecarious Raaj and the “IIndigent Suublime”: Constructions of the Victim,
Madras Famine, 18 876-1878’, IInternationaal Symposiu um on Victoorian India, IIT
Madras, June 2018 8.
6. ‘The Medium
M of Destruction:
D Graphic Teexts, Nucleaar Science aand the Makking of
the Nucclear Bomb’’, Internatioonal Seminaar, Words, Visuals
V and Beyond:
Mediatiization of Narrative
N Sppaces’, Bharrat Mata College, Feb. 22018.
 Major research achievements (Maximum 150 words):

Work has appeared regularly in high-impact journals (Orbis Literrarum, Narrative,

Counter-Text, Asiatic, a/b: Auto/biography Studies, Biography, among others) and
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significant anthologies from Routledge and other publishers in the fields of Human Rights
& Literature, Colonial Discourse Studies, Celebrity Studies and the Graphic Novel.
Books have appeared in these same fields from Rowman&Littlefield, Palgrave-
Macmillan, Routledge, among others.
Any other significant achievements:
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Date Last Updated: 20 August 2019