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PD Dr. Pavan Malreddy

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, Sinan Antoon, Yvonne Owuor, 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.

From January-March 2025, Pavan Malreddy will be on a special leave to take up Feodor Lynen Senior Fellowship.

AWARDS

Feodor Lynen Senior Fellowship Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2025.
Nominee, Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis, DFG (single nomination from Goethe University Frankfurt), 2018.
Winner, Faculty of Humanities' Best Dissertation Award, TU Chemnitz, 2011.

POSITIONS HELD

Priv.-Doz. (WiMi), Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2022-.
Senior Lecturer (WiMi), Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2016-2022.Lecturer (WiMi), Institute of English and American Studies, TU Chemnitz, Germany, 2010–2014.
Research Coordinator, Community University Institute for Social Research, University of Saskatchewan, 2008–2009.
Research Coordinator, Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness, University of Saskatchewan, 2007–2008.

SERVICE TO PROFESSION

Editorial Board Member, Philosophy, Politics and Critique (Edinburgh University Press), 2023-
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Alterity Studies and World Literature, 2018-.
Advisory Board Member, GAPS (German Postcolonial Studies), 2019-21.
Editor, South Asian and the Mideastern Literature Volume, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2017-.
Co-Editor, Key Words in Transcultural Studies. http://www.transcultural-english-studies.de/, 2017-.
Co-Editor, ACOLIT, Newsletter of GAPS, 2017–2021.
Member, 'Global Precarity Network' Universidad de Córdoba, Spain, 2017–2020.
Co-Editor, Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium, 2016-
Reviews Editor, Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 2009–2016.
Research Team Member, 'Aboriginal Literacy Network', Saskatoon, 2009–2010.
Vice-President Operations, Graduate Students' Association, University of Saskatchewan, 2003–2004.

PEER-REVIEW & ASSESSMENT WORK

Journals/Publishers

Liverpool University Press, Routledge; Brill; Springer; Mason Books; Contemporary Women's Writing; Ariel: A Review of International English Literature; Colloquia Humanistica; Critical Studies on Terrorism; Interventions; Journal of Commonwealth Literature; Journal of Postcolonial Writing; Open Journal of Humanities; Postcolonial Studies; Postcolonial Text; MMLA: Midwest Modern Language Association Journal; Mosaic: A Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature; South Asian Diaspora; Matatu: Journal for African Society and Culture; Studies in Travel Writing; Journal of Intercultural Studies; European Journal of English Studies, Current Sociology

Funding Agencies

European Science Foundation (Science Connect)
Springer Science (UK)
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes/The German Academic Scholarship Foundation
European Science Foundation (Ireland)
H F Guggenheim Foundation (USA)
The Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)

THESIS SUPERVISION

Award winning students/scholars:

Laura Sheunemann, 2023, 'North America Exchange Award', Goethe University Frankfurt.
Adeoloa Shukurat Titilola, 2023, 'Religion, Trust, and Idenity in Nigerian Politics', Global Exchange Research Programme Award, Goethe University Frankfurt.
Stefanie Kemmerer, 2022, 'Yogascapes: The Visual Politics of Transcultural Yoga as seen on Instagram', GAPS Graduate Award.
Chijike Onah, Winner, 2021, DAAD Award, Goethe University Frankfurt.
Larissa Wellhöfer, 2017, 'Journalistic and Literary Representation of Reality, Exemplified by the War in Syria', Calliopean Society Master's Thesis Award, Frankfurt.
Dr. Önder Çakırtaş, Winner, COST Action Fellowship, hosted at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Prof. Dr. Anidnya Sekhar Purakayastha, Winner, ConTrust Visiting Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Study, Bad Homburg, July-August 2023.

DOCTORAL SUPERVISION

Fadekemi Olawoye, 2020-: 'Semiotics of Costume and Makeup in Nigerian Historical Films', DFG Graduiertenkolleg GRK 2279, Goethe University Frankfurt, first supervisor.
Neshen Isaeva Gyunesh, 2022-, 'Affective Circulations and Special (Re-)Formations: Explorations of Colonial History and Contemporary Life in Black and Asian Theatre in Britain', Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, second supervisor.
Trajanka Kortova, 2021: 'Salman Rushdie and Postcolonial Authorship': A Dialogical Aesthetics, Department of Drama and English, Avignon University, France, external examiner.
Amrita Biswas, 2020-, 'Mapping the “Golden Era" of Bengali Cinema', DFG-Graduiertenkolleg GRK 2279, committe member.
Nuha Askar, 2020-: 'Beyond the Single Story of Arab Nation: Narrating Internal Dissent in Anglophone Middle Eastern Literature', Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, second supervisor.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Co-organizer, International Symposium 'Towards World Critical Theory: Contributions from the Global South' (with Anindya Purakayastha), Institute of Languages Studies and Research (ISLR), Kolkata, India, Dec 4-5, 2023.
Organizer, International Symposium, 'Entangled Legacies: The Afterlives of Transculturality', Goethe University Frankfurt, Feb 10, 2023.
Co-organizer, 'The Affective Logic of Populism: Trust, Distrust and Productivity of Conflict', (with Johannes Voelz), 2-3 December, Institute of Advances Studies, Bad Homburg, 2022.
Co-organizer, GAPS 32^nd Annual Meeting 'Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures', 26-29 May, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2022.
Co-organizer, GNEL/ASNEL 24^th Annual Meeting 'Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis', (with Cecile Sandten, Annika Bear) 9-11 May, TU Chemnitz, 2013.
Co-organizer, EACLALS Postgraduate Conference 'Reworking Postcolonialism', Institute of English Studies, University of London, 9-11 December, 2011.

PAPERS AT INTERNATIONAL VENUES

Lecture Series: University of Leeds (2024); University of Konstanz (2024); New York University Abu Dhabi (2023); University of Liège (2023); Sorbonne Université, Paris (2023); University of Zürich (2019); English and Foreign Languages University, India (2019); University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (2018); University of Mandalay (2019); University of London (2013)
Professional Conventions: European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Lausanne, Switzerland (2024); Modernist Studies Association, New York (2023); Burma Studies Conference, DeKalb, Illinois (2016); EACLALS Conference, Istanbul (2011); Learned Societies, Toronto (2009).

TEACHER TRAINING WORKSHOPS & SUMMER SCHOOLS

(with Marc Siegel) 'Teaching Clinic for Doctoral Students' Configurations of Film, Graduiertenkolleg 2279, Department of Film and Media Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, 26 April, 2023.
(with Ananya Kabir and Ari Gautier) 'Postcolonial Methods Lab', Configurations of Film, Graduiertenkolleg 2279, Department of Film and Media Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, 21–22 July, 2022.
'Current Issues in Teaching India', Lehrerfortbildung/ Teacher Education Workshop, University of Bonn, 13 November, 2018.
'Playing God: Gurus, Yogis, and Postsecular Cults', Performing Postcolonialisms, GAPS Summer Academy, Goethe University Frankfurt, 4–8 September, 2017.
'Energy Security and the War on Terror: Ecology and Insurgency in the Postcolonial World', World Border Stories: Narratives of Peace, Conflict and Communication in the 20^th and 21^st Centuries, GAPS Summer Academy, University of Augsburg, 7–11 September, 2015.
'Transcultural Approaches to Teaching Terrorism in the Post-9/11 Context', Lehrerfortbildung/Teacher Education Workshop, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, 21–23 November, 2014.
'Towards Post-Terrorism', German National Academic Foundation/Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes Sommerakadamie, Greifswald, 31 August-13 September, 2014.
'Ecopower and Necropower: Narratives of Resistance and Resilience in India's Naxalite Movement', Just Politics, GNEL Summer Academy, University of Potsdam, 2–6 September, 2013.

Monographs and Edited Volumes

Special Issues in Journals

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

2025 'Dump Aesthetics: Ecopolitics of Waste in Mexico, Sierra Leone, and India.' The Global South 20 (1), contracted & in preperation.
2025 'A Touch of MacBeth: ‘Shakespeare, Public Sphere, and the Global Anti-Heroes.' Public Humanities 3 (2), contracted & in preperation.
2024 ‘Philosophy, Politics and Critique in an age of Decolonial Fever’. Philosophy, Politics and Critique 1(1), 74-79.
2024 (with Carolin Gebauer and Jan Rupp) ‘Introduction: Nomadworld – Global Mobility and the New Anglophones’. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 35 (1), 9-18.
2023 (with Chijioke Onah) ‘Introduction: Civic Dissent in Nigeria: Literature, Film, and Media.' Matatu, Journal for African Culture and Society 53 (2), 155-171.
2022 ‘Bound by Conflict: The State, the Street and Organized Distrust in India’s Communal Violence’. WestEnd: Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 2 (22): 97–105.
2022 ‘The CounterText Interview: Yann Martel’. CounterText 8 (2): 241–167.
2022 ‘Militant Metaphors: Rebels, Rogues and Insurgents in Niger Delta’s Conflict Literature. Postcolonial Text, Special Issue ‘Global Literature and Violence’ 17 (2 & 3): 1–20.
2022 ‘Introduction: Global Literature and Violent Conflicts’. Postcolonial Text 17 (2 &3): 1–16
2022 ‘Postsecular Longings? Religious Dissent, Faith, and Gurus in Indian Cinema’. Third Text 36 (5): 176–191.
2021 ‘The Syntax of Everyday Injustice: A Conversation with Arundhati Roy'. Special issue 'Crisis and Recovery’. Wasafiri, International Contemporary Writing 107: 41–49.
2020 ‘An Insectual Perspective: Text, Theory and Politics in Tom McCarthy’s Fiction – A Conversation’. Textual Practice 35 (1): 1–21.
2020 (with Caroline Koegler and Marlene Tronicke) ‘The Colonial Remains of Brexit: Empire Nostalgia and Narcissistic Nationalism’. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56 (5): 585–592.
2020 ‘Subalternation: Narrating Burma’. Postcolonial Studies 23 (2): 210–225.
2020 (with Anindya Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann) ‘Discoursing Populism: Types, Typologies and Contexts’. Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 5 (1): 1–8s.
2019 ‘Imperialist Shame and Indigenous Guilt in George Orwell’s Writings on Burma’. European Journal of English Studies 20 (3): 311–325.
2018 (with Frank Schulze-Engler and John Njenga Karugia) ‘“Even the Dead Have Human Rights”: A Conversation with Homi K. Bhabha’. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 54 (5): 702–716.
2018 (with Michael C. Frank) ‘Global Responses to the War on Terror’. European Journal of English Studies 22 (2): 92–102.
2018 (Review Essay) ‘The Transatlantic Novel and the War on Terror’. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 55 (1): 130–133.
2018 (with Anindya Purkayastha) ‘Cultures of Violence and (a)himsaic Historiography: The Indian Subcontinent, A Million Mutinies Again?’ Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 2 (1): 3–15.
2016 ‘Terror, Nation and Violence in Bombay Cinema’. Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 1 (1): 1–27.
2015 ‘Post-Orientalism and Post-Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain: Literary and Cinematic Representations of the London Bombings’. Hard Times, German-English Journal (96): 32–35.
2015 ‘From 9/11 to the “War on Terror”’. Live Encounters 1: 12–15.
2014 ‘Domesticating New Terrorism: The Case of Maoist Insurgency in India’. The European Legacy 19 (5): 590–605.
2014 ‘Arun Joshi: Avant-Garde, Existentialism and the West’. ZAA: A Quarterly Journal of Language, Literature and Culture 62 (1): 3–12.
2013 ‘The Blueprints of Revolution? A Reading of Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought through Franz Kafka’s Fiction(s)’. Intertexts: A Journal of Comparative and Theoretical Reflection 17 (1): 53–66.
2012 ‘Introduction: Orientalism(s) after 9/11’. In: Pavan Kumar Malreddy and Birte Heidemann (eds.) Orientalism and Terrorism: Theory, Text, and Images after 9/11. Special Issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 (3): 233–240.
2012 ‘Pulp Orientalism: Endosmotic Banality, terra necro, and “homo ludens”’ in Dan Fesperman’s The Warlord’s Son’. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 (3): 265–277.
2011 ‘Gender and Nation in Bombay Cinema’. Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 26 (2): 191–195.
2011 ‘Postcolonialism: Interdisciplinary or Interdiscursive?’ Third World Quarterly 32 (4): 653–672.
2011 ‘“Cosmopolitanism Within”: The Case of R.K. Narayan’s Fictional Malgudi’. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47 (5): 558–570.
2011 ‘(An)other Way of Being Human: “Indigenous” Alternative(s) to Postcolonial Humanism’. Third World Quarterly 32 (9): 1557–1572.
2010 (with Niven Kumar) ‘We Have Already Happened’. Nebula: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Scholarship 7 (3): 115–121.
2009 ‘Aboriginal Education in Canada: A Postcolonial Analysis’. AlterNative: International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship 5 (1): 43–56.
2009 ‘Review Essay: Humanism and Its Other: Difference and Disjuncture in Postcolonial Theory’. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 17 (2): 87–99.
2007 ‘Imagining the Terrorist: Racialization of Asian Identities since 9/11’. Kasarinlan: Philippines Journal of Third World Studies 22 (2): 4–21.

Book Chapters

2025 'Shakespeare's Aquatopia: The Tempest in an Age of Blue Humanities' in Russel-West Pavlov, ed. Heterotropic Theatres: Shakespeare and After. Tübingen: Narr, forthcoming.
2025 (with Frank Schulze-Engler and Kathrin Bartha) 'Introduction: Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures'. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Press, forthcoming.
2025 'Ethics and Aesthetics of Contemporary Migrant Literature: Readings from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean'. In: Martin Riedelsheimer and Martin Middeke (eds.) Handbook of Literary Ethics. Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming.
2024 (with Frank Schulze-Engler) 'Introduction: Shouting Loudest Into the Anglophone'. In: Pavan Kumar Malreddy and Frank Schulze-Engler (eds.) Mapping World Anglophone Studies: English in a World of Strangers. London: Routledge, 1-20.
2024 (with Stefanie Kemmerer). 'The Anglophone Imaginary and Agency in Contemporary Egyptian Novels'. In: Pavan Kumar Malreddy and Frank Schulze-Engler (eds.) Mapping World Anglophone Studies: English in a World of Strangers. London: Routledge, 87-103.
2024 (with Keyvan Allehyari, AbdouMaliq Simone, et al.) 'Homo Proximus: The Migrant Experience – Negotiating Proximities', in Riccarda Flemmer, Bani Gill and Jacky Kosgei, eds. Proximity as Method. London: Routledge, 118-121.
2024 (with Stefanie Kemmerer) 'Political Resistance in Contemporary Arab Novels in English: City Spaces in Arab Spring Novels by Saleem Haddad and Omar Robert Hamilton'. In: Nadia Butt, Ansgar Nünning and Alexander Scherr (eds.) WVT Handbook on Anglophone Novel. Trier: WVT, 14-28.
2023 'Intimate Conflicts: Rebels, Heroes, and Disfigured Terrorists in Burmese Literature'. In: Michael C. Frank and Maria Flood (eds.) The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature, Film and Media. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 245–261.
2023 'Salman Rushdie: Biography and Autobiography'. In: Florian Stadtler (ed.) Salman Rushdie in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 13–25.
2021 'In a State of Indifference: A Conversation with Amit Chaudhuri'. In: Chandani Lokuge and Chris Ringrose (eds.) Creative Lives. Stuttgart: Ibidem/ Columbia University Press, 56–73.
2021 'Nomadic Thinking: Tabish Khair in Conversation'. In: Chandani Lokuge and Chris Ringrose (eds.) Creative Lives. Stuttgart: Ibidem/Columbia University Press, 154–170.
2021 (with Caroline Koegler and Marlene Tronicke) 'Introduction'. In: Pavan Malreddy, Caroline Koegler and Marlene Tronicke (eds.) Writing Brexit. Abington and New York, Routledge, 1–8.
2020 'The Late Style of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o'. In: Ruth Achenbach, Jan Beek, John Njenga Karugia, Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel and Frank Schulze-Engler (eds.) Afrasian Transformations: Transregional Perspectives on Development Cooperation, Social Mobility and Cultural Change. Leiden: Brill, 320–334.
2020 'The Idea of India: Pedagogical Perspectives'. In: Daniel Schönbauer (ed.) Postcolonial Indian Experiences: Teaching Faces of a Rising Nations. Baden-Baden: Tectum, 9–23.
2020 (with Michael C. Frank) 'Introduction: Narratives of the War on Terror'. In: Pavan Malreddy and Michael C. Frank (eds.) Narratives of the War on Terror. Abington and New York: Routledge, 1–11.
2019 (with Anindya Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann) 'Introduction: Genealogies of Violence in South Asia'. In: Pavan Malreddy, Anindya Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann (eds.) Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives. Oxon; New York: Routledge, 1–20.
2019 'After-Literature: The End of the Story and the Birth of the Narrative'. In: Maria Fleischhack, Stefan Welz and Jürgen Ronthaler (eds.) Das Leben und die Seltsamen Abenteuer des Elmar Schenkel, aus Soest, Professor. Nicht von ihm Selbst Verfasst. Leipzig: Edition Hamouda, 258–265.
2019 'The Novel of Myanmar'. In: Alex Tickell (ed). The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 351–364.
2017 (with Ana Sobral) 'Violent Worlds: Three Readings from the Global South'. In: Anglistentag Proceedings. Trier: WVT, 245–256.
2016 'Solidarity, Suffering, and “Divine Violence": Fictions of the Naxalite Insurgency'. In: Alex Tickell (ed.) South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 217–234.
2015 'Introduction: Reworking Postcolonialism'. In: Pavan Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen and Janet Wilson (eds.) Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1–18.
2015 'Labour, Pleasure and the Sublime: The “Work" of the Dalitbahujans'. In: Pavan Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen and Janet Wilson (eds.) Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 134–149.
2014 'Imagining the Terrorist: Racialization of Asian Identities since 9/11'. In: Perlita M. Frago-Marasigan and Teresa S. Encarnación Tadem (eds). Comparative Politics and Government: (Re)Democratization and Development. Diliman, Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2013, 4–21.
2014 'Nekro-Nationalismus: Die Naxalit_innen-Aufstände in Indien' (translated by Louisa Lorenz)/'Necro-Nationalism: The Naxalite Insurgency in India'. In: Lina Fricke, Elisabeth Nechutnys, Christoph Senft and Anna von Rath (eds.) Just Politics? – Ökokritische Perspektiven im postkolonialen Raum/Just Politics? Ecocritical Perspectives in a Postcolonial Space. Münster: Unrast, 59–80.
2013 'Pulp, Sci-Fi and the Politics of Other Fictions: Face to Face with Mohsin Hamid'. In: Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann (eds.) From Popular Goethe to Global Pop: The Idea of the West between Memory and (Dis)Empowerment. Leiden, New York: Brill, 131–150.
2012 'Counterterrorism in Germany: Post 9/11'. In: Frank Shanty (ed.) Counterterrorism: From the Cold War to the War on Terror. Westport, CA.: ABC-CLIO, Greenwood Press 381–385.

Shorter Contributions

2024 'Leap of Faith: Gurus, Godmen and Postsecualr India'. Brand Baba, Special Issue, Outlook Magazine, July 22.
2023 'The Foot Power of the Footloose: COVID Migrants, Emotions and the Ethics of Homelessness'. Special Issue Emotions and the Right-wing Politics, edited by Ajay Gudavarthy Outlook Magazine, July 01.
2022 Review of Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch (eds.) Imperial Middlebrow. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies: 154–155.
2018 Review of Nirmala Menon's Remapping the Indian Postcolonial Canon: Remap, Reimagine, Retranslate. Postcolonial Text 13 (3): 1–4.
2018 (with Ashok Kumbamu) 'Why are the Indian Authorities Afraid of a “Half-Maoist"'. Aljazeera Online: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/8/31/why-are-the-indian-authorities-afraid-of-a-half-maoist
2017 Review of Nadia Butt's Transcultural Memory and Globalised Modernity in Contemporary Indo-English Novels. Memory Studies 10 (2): 235–238.
2015 Review of Bruce King's Rewriting India: Eight Writers. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 51 (2): 490–491.
2012 Review of Anthony Carrigan's Postcolonial Tourism and Robert Spencer's Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature. Wasafiri (71): 81–83.2012 Review of Gerhard Stiltz and Ellen Dengel-Janic's (eds.) South Asian
Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources, vol l. Anglia: Journal of English Philology 130 (1): 139–142.
2007 'New Sites of Transformation in Aboriginal Education'. Policy Dialogue 15 (1): 8–10.
2007 'Teacher Training for Graduate Students: A Self-Ethnological Approach'. Bridges 6 (1): 3–5.
2007 'Symbolic Violence and Real Victims: First Nations University of Canada's Governance Crisis'. Windspeaker 25 (2): 11.
2007 'Death by Symbols: The Specters of Saddam Hussein'. The Sheaf 98 (17): A8–9.
2007 'Redemptive Reason and the Consumption of Fear'. The Sheaf 98 (3): A4.
2006 'Saddam Hussein and the Postmodern Death'. The Sheaf 98 (20): A5.

Encyclopaedia Entries

2017 'Anticolonialism and Decolonization'. In: Keywords in Transcultural Studies. Frankfurt
2017 'Disenchanted Solidarity'. In: Keywords in Transcultural Studies. Frankfurt
2012 'Resisting the Question: What is Avant-Garde?' Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES). London: Routledge.
2011 'Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature'. Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES). London: Routledge.
2011 'South Asian Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures in English Sources and Resources, vol. I'. Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES). London: Routledge.
2011 'Is the “Post" in 'Post-Secular' the 'Post' in “Postcolonial"?' Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES). London: Routledge.
2010 'The Place of India in Postcolonial Studies: Chatterjee, Chakrabarty, Spivak'. Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES). London: Routledge.

Commissioned Reports

Conference Reports

Funded Projects

Principal Investigator (of a 12-member team, Chair: Vinzenz Hediger) ‘Configurations of Film’, Graduiertenkolleg 2279, Department of Film and Media Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, DFG Graduiertenkolleg, €4.2 millions (2021-)
Principal Investigator (of a 22-member team, Co-Chairs: Rainer Forst and Nicole Deitelhoff) ‘ConTrust: Trust in Conflict – Political Coexistence under Conditions of Uncertainty’, Excellence Cluster Initiative Grant, Hessian Ministry for Science and the Arts, €9.7 millions (2021-)
Project Leader: ‘Towards Post-Terrorism: Necro-Nationalism and Cultures of Violence in Insurgency Literature’, DFG Eigene Stelle, €318,819 (2016-21)

Under Review

Principal Investigator (of a 13-member team, Chair: Johannes Voelz) ‘Aesthetics of Democracy', Graduiertenkolleg, Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, DFG Graduiertenkolleg.

Lecture Series, 'No Longer at Home', Centre for Cultural Inquiry / Zentrum für kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung (ZKF), University of Konstanz, January 8, 2025.
Keynote (with Michael C. Frank), Transmedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), University of Gießen, December 6, 2024.
Plenary (with Harsh Mander) 'Cinema and Social Justice: Radical Love in Times of Hate,' The South Asia Institute and Institute of Anthropology at Heidelberg University, October 25, 2024.
Lecture Series, Postcolonial Research Group, School of English, University of Leeds, October 29, 2024.
Plenary, 'Literary Politics Beyond Representation', Postcolonial Realities: The Challenge of Representation in the Writing of Contemporary Indian Literature, Doctoral Summer School, Chair of English Lietarure, University of Tübingen, June 10-12, 2024.
Plenary, 'Decolonial Fever', Decoloniality Now Symposium, Amedkar center for Social and Cultural Studies, Gour College, Malda, India, April 24, 2024.
Roundtable, 'Far from the Homing Desire: The Homeless Drive and the Migrant", Anthropology and the Political Economy of "Drive" Workshop, Max Planck Institite for Social Anthropology, Halle, April 19, 2024.
Roundtable, 'All, Humans', Raqs Media Collective, Institute of Art History, Frankfurt, February 07, 2024.
A New Spice in the Mix: Affective Food Cultures', Chair of Cultural Studies, University of Rostock, January 15, 2024.
'At Home in Exile: A Migrant Manifesto', Academy in Exile, TU Dortmund, January 10, 2024.
'Footloose Subjects: Literary Cultures on the Move', Departmemt of English, University of Leipzig, January 04, 2024.
'The Climate of Migration', Research Fruits Series, Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities, University of Cologne, December 14, 2023.
'Rootless Cosmopolitanism', Department of English, University of Zurich, Dec 13, 2023.
Plenary, 'Unthinking the Migrant Crisis', International Forum 2023, Un/thinking the “Crisis": Knowledge, Art, Politics, University of Tübingen, November 17, 2023.
'Groundless Existence: Vulnerability and Agency in Contemporary Migration', UNESCO Chair for Vulnerability Studies Series, University of Hyderabad, November 8, 2023.
'Decolonial Mythologies in an Age of Mobile Nationalisms', New York University Abu Dhabi, October 3-4, 2023.
At Home on the Road: The Migrant Ethics of Unbelonging', Department of Cultural Studies Seminar, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, July 26, 2023.
Roundtable (with Abdoumaliq Simone, et al.) 'Negotiating Proximity: The Migrant Experience', Chair of Anglophone Literatures, University of Tübingen, July 10, 2023.
Chair & Discussant, 'Parallel Genealogies' in Caryl Phillips's Genealogies Symposium,University of Liège, June 15, 2023.
'Violence and Literary Agency'. Transculturalismes Seminar Series, Sorbonne Université, Paris, 25 May, 2023.
Keynote, 'The Frail Syntax of Terrorism: Narratives of Violence from the Global South'. Representations of Violence in Literature in Literature and Other Media, Ghent University Belgium, 4 May, 2023.
Plenary, 'Mimicking Tom McCarthy' Inkarnationswochenende The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Berlin, 31 March–1 April, 2023.
Plenary, (with Priyamvada Gopal, Harsh Mander, and Nindini Sundar) 'The Conflict of Democracies: Democracy and/or Diversity in Brazil, the USA, India and Europe', Paulskirche, Frankfurt am Main, 10–11 November, 2023.
Discussant, 'Narrating Terror: Boko Haram Terrorism in Literature, Film, and Media (Part I and II)'. Lagos Studies Association Conference, University of Lagos, 25 June, 2022.
(Panel co-lead) 'Nomadworld: Global Mobility and the New Anglophones' (with Carolin Gebauer and Jan Rupp). Deutscher Anglistenverband, Anglistentag 2022, University of Mainz, 2-5 September, 2022.
Plenary, 'The Emotional Logic of Postsecular Populism'. Post-Truth Politics: Silencing, Violence and Resistance in Public Debate. University of Birmingham, 28 September, 2022.
'Salman Rushdie and the Performance of (Cinematic) Autobiography', Lecture Series, Masks, Department of Film and Media, University of Mainz, (online event), 12 February, 2021.
'Intimate Violence: Rebels, Rogues and Revolutionaries in Burmese Literature', The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature, Film, and Media, University of Zurich, 10-11 November, 2019.
Plenary, 'Global Humanities Curriculum Workshop' (hosted by Homi K. Bhabha). Volkswagen Foundation, Herrenhausen, Hannover, 8-9 September, 2019.
'The Novel of Myanmar', Oxford History of The Novel (South and South East Asia), Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, 25 June, 2019.
'Precarious Riches: Oil, Insurgency and Violence in Nigerian Literature', Auro University, Surat, India, 27-29 January, 2019.
'Postsecular Longings?', Department of Sociology Monthly Seminar Series, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 23 January, 2018.
Discussant, 'MSA Forward: Doctoral Students Panel', Memory Studies Association Second Annual Conference, Copenhagen, 14-16 December, 2017.
Keynote, 'Towards Post-Terrorism? From Orientalism to Divine Violence', Framing Violence: A Multidisciplinary Symposium on Theorizing Frames, John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin, 1-2 July, 2016.
'Ecology, Insurgency and Cultures of Violence in Postcolonial Literature' DFG Network 'Environmental Crisis and the Transitional Imagination', Rachel Carson Center, Munich, February 20, 2016.
'Terrorism and Political Violence: A Critical Introduction', Monthly Seminar Series, UWC Robert Bosch College, Freiburg, 27 April, 2015.
'Margins of India: Kancha Ilaiah's Postcolonial Nationalogues', Citizenship, Narrative and Neo/colonial Histories Conference, Open University London, 18 November, 2013.
Keynote, 'Labour as Life in Kancha Ilaiah's Why I am Not a Hindu', Interdisciplinary Humanism, Democracy and Culture: Postcolonial Discourse and India. RKSD College, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India, 20 March, 2011.

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