CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
E. Dawson Varughese is a Professor at MCH
SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING
| Subject | Semester / Year |
|---|---|
| Studies in Contemporary Culture | |
| Modern Indian Literature |
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
| Degree | Specialisation | Institute | Year of passing |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | English Studies | University of Nottingham, UK | |
| MA | English Studies | University of Nottingham, UK | |
| MA | Learning and Teaching with Action Research | University of Keele, UK |
Experience
| Institution / Organisation | Designation | Role | Tenure |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Delhi | Visiting Faculty | 2017-2018 |
AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH
Area of Interest
World literature, Visual studies, Cultural studies, Post-millennial Indian literary and visual cultures, Indian genre fiction,
Professional Affiliations & Contributions
E. Dawson Varughese is also a creative practitioner who runs www.worldlits.com.
Post-Millennial Indian Speculative Fiction in English: Desi Dystopias and Ideas of Belonging
Forthcoming March 2025
Bloomsbury
Routledge Companion to Post-millennial Indian Fiction in English
Forthcoming (2025)
Routledge
Gulf-Kerala Literary Publics
2023 Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil E. Dawson Varughese
Journal of Commonwealth Literature. doi: 10.1177/00219894221145211
Rhizomatic Readings: insights into the post-millennial Indian graphic narrative scene
Forthcoming (2023)
in A. Chakraborty, R. Konar, S. A. Bhowmik (eds) Postcolonial Popular Culture: Texts, Artefacts and Affects Hyderabad: Orient Blackswann
“Christ The Guru”: artistic representations of Jesus Christ in South India and their mediated notions of Indianness and guru-ness’
Forthcoming (2023)
in J. Copeman, A. Longkumer, K. Duggal (eds), Religious Gurus and Media: Film, image, art, sound and beyond. London: UCL Press
‘Automatic guns singing death verses and Swachh Bharat rainbows’: layered messaging and public wall art on Maharshi Karve Road, Mumbai
Summer, Issue 2, 2021
South Asian Popular Culture Routledge
Precarity and (im)Purity in Prayaag Akbar’s Leila
2021
South Asia: journal of South Asian studies
Public Wall Art on Tulsi Pipe Road, Mumbai: The Indian post-millennial contemporary, sexual violence and ‘femaleness’
2021-06-01
Postcolonial Interventions Vol. VI, Issue 2, Open Issue
The “in-betweens” and the “hatadaiva”: oscillating, fantastic realities
2020-06-01
in Tashan Mehta’s The Liar’s Weave Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Traumatic moments: retrospective “seeing” of violation, rupture and injury in three post-millennial Indian graphic narratives
2020-06-01
in D. Davies and C. Rifkind (eds), Documenting Trauma: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories & Graphic Reportage in Comics (Basingstoke: Palgrave)
The craft of (queer) feminism: a conversation with Neelima P. Aryan, Indian illustrator and queer feminist woman
2020-04-01
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics Special Issue, ‘Feminist Comics/Graphic novels in a Global Frame’
‘Drawing Thoughts Together’: Indian artists’ reflections on the post-millennial Indian graphic narratives scene
2019-11-01
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Material Memory and the Partition of India: a narrative interview with Aanchal Malhotra
2019-10-01
in R. Maxey and P. McGarr (eds) India at 70 (Routledge)
Indian fiction in English Post-millennial Indian Anglophone writing
2019
in R. Eaglestone and D. O’Gorman (eds), The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Fiction (Abingdon and New York: Routledge)
Seeing Shiva, Seeing Ram: Visual representations of deities in the genre of mythology-inspired fiction, an analysis of the book covers of Amish Tripathi’s novels
2018-11-09
South Asian Popular Culture
Reading New India: Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in English
2018-10-12
Bloomsbury
Neelima P. Aryan’s ‘the prey’ from Drawing the Line: a graphic narrative response to the Delhi gang rape
2018-23-04
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Post-millennial “mythology-inspired fiction”: the market, the genre and the (global) reader
2018
in B. Chattopadhyay, A. Maity and A. Mandhwani (eds), Indian Genre Fiction: pasts and future histories (Chicago: Chicago University Press)
Consuming post-millennial Indian Chick Lit: visual representations of Chauhan’s females
2018-07-01
in K. Houlden and N. Atia (eds) Popular Postcolonialisms: Popular Cultural Forms and the Postcolonial Paradigm (Abingdon and New York: Routledge)
(Social) Memory, Movements and Messaging on Tulsi Pipe Road: ‘Seeing’ Public Wall Art in Mumbai
2017-21-11
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives
2017-16-11
palgrave macmillan
Post-millennial “Indian Fantasy” fiction in English and the question of mythology: Writing beyond the “usual suspects”
2017-07-12
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Genre Fiction of New India: post-millennial configurations of Crick Lit, Chick Lit and crime writing
2016-06-01
in A. Tickell (ed) South-Asian fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
“The cracks of post-liberalized India”: Storying the “New Society” through Banerjee’s The Harappa Files (2011)
2016-12-10
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Genre Fiction of New India: Post-millennial Configurations of Crick Lit, Chick Lit and Crime Writing
2016-12-04
South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations
Indian Writing in English and Issues of Visual Representation: Judging More than a Book by its Cover
2015-27-05
Palgrave Macmillan
'Style in World Literature in English(es)’
2015-19-11
The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics, Bloomsbury
Style in World (Indian) Literature in English(es): Battle for Bittora by Anuja Chauhan
2015-07-01
in V. Sotirova (ed) Companion to Stylistics, (London, New York: Continuum/Bloomsbury)
New India/n Woman’: decision-making and identity in post-millennial Chick Lit
2015-07-01
in U. Anjaria (ed) The Cambridge History of the Indian Novel in English (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, July 2015)
Celebrate at home: post-millennial Indian fiction in English and the reception of ‘Bharati Fantasy’ in global and domestic literary markets
2014-07-10
Contemporary South Asia
New ways of seeing in New India: interview with Manta Ray Graphic Novels
2014-22-07
South Asian Popular Culture
Beyond The Postcolonial: World Englishes Literature
2012-21-08
Palgrave Macmillan
Emerging writing from four African countries: genres and Englishes, beyond the postcolonial
2012-03-01
African Identities
‘New Departures, New Worlds: World Englishes Literature’
2012-03-01
English Today, Cambridge University Press
‘Beyond The Postcolonial: A Project in World Englishes Literature’
2011-01-03
Journal of Transnational Literature, Vol 3, Issue 2
Daughters of Eve and other new short stories from Nigeria
2010-01-04
Seattle: New Ventures. Edited with critical introduction
Butterfly Dreams and other new short stories from Uganda
2010-01-07
Seattle: New Ventures. Edited with critical introduction
Attitudes to Language in Literary Sources: Beyond Post-Colonialism in Nigerian Literature
2010-02-12 Pierre Larrivée
English Studies
‘The Spirit Machine’ and Other New Short Stories From Cameroon
2009-01-07
Seattle: New Ventures. Edited with critical introduction
‘Re-visioning the National Curriculum at KS 3 and 4 and its stipulation to teach literature ‘from different cultures and traditions’
2009-01-04
Changing English. Vol 16, Issue 2
‘Emotion Tracking Pedagogy: towards better teaching of the national curriculum for English’
2008-30-09
The State Of Stylistics, PALA papers 5, Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Read Yourself Around The Globe: ‘The ‘Rough Guide’ to World Englishes Literature’
2007-01-05
Anglofiles: Journal of English Teaching May (144): 52-57.