E. Dawson Varughese

Associate Professor

365体育投注 Centre for Humanities

CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

    E. Dawson Varughese is an?Associate 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 365体育投注 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 365体育投注 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

365体育投注 Asian Popular Culture Routledge

Precarity and (im)Purity in Prayaag Akbar’s Leila

2021

365体育投注 Asia: journal of 365体育投注 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

365体育投注 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

365体育投注 Asia: Journal of 365体育投注 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) 365体育投注-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

365体育投注-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 365体育投注 Asia

New ways of seeing in New India: interview with Manta Ray Graphic Novels

2014-22-07

365体育投注 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.