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.
Monographs and Edited Volumes
2024 Insurgent Cultures: World Literatures and Violence from the Global South. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2015 Orientalism, Terrorism and Indigenism: South Asian Readings in Postcolonialism. New Delhi/London/ Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
2024 (with Frank Schulze-Engler) Mapping World Anglophone Studies: English in a World of Strangers. London: Routledge (Series in Transdisciplinary Souths, in press).
2024 (with Frank Schulze-Engler and Kathrin Bartha)Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Press (forthcoming).
2021 (with Caroline Koegler and Marlena Tronicke) Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains. Abington and New York: Routledge.
2020 (with Michael C. Frank) Narratives of the War on Terror: Global Perspectives. Abington and New York: Routledge.
2019 (with Anindya Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann) Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives (dual edition). Abington, New Delhi and New York: Routledge.
2015 (with Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen and Janet Wilson) Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
2025, forthcoming (Russell West-Pavlov with contributions by Keyvan Allahyari, Anya Heise-von der Lippe and Pavan Kumar Malreddy) Heterotropic Theatres: Shakespeare and After. Tübingen: Narr.
