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Pavan Malreddy specializes in 20th and 21st century comparative Anglophone literatures & cultures with a regional focus on East Asia, Africa, South Asia and the Arab speaking world, with a thematic focus on conflicts, communal bonds, insurgencies, populism, public life and migrancy. He has authored essays on figures and themes as wide-ranging as Aung San Suu Kyi, Salman Rushdie, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Arab Spring, Indian cinema, Brexit, terrorism, and the civil war in Burma, among others.
He has interviewed/ hosted prominent novelists and theorists such as Abdulrazak Gurnah, Arundhati Roy, Yann Martel, Homi K. Bhabha, Mohsin Hamid, Tom McCarthy, Amit Chaudhuri, and Tabish Khair. He co-edits Kairos and serves on the advisory board of Philosophy, Politics and Critique and The Journal of Aterity Studies and World Literature. He is affiliated with the research group Democratic Vistas.
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