Essays

Essays by Pramod K Nayar
Precarious Denizens: The Dogs of War and Conflict. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 11.21 (2023): 1-8. ISSN 2148-4066
The Famine Projects and Digital Trauma Studies in India. Critical South Asian Studies. 1.1 (2023): 5-12.
'Artificial Beings, Servitude and Rights: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun'. In Masood Ashraf Raja and Nick TC Lu (eds) The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice. Routledge, 2023.
The Guantánamo Graphic Novels: Towards a Carceral Imperialism. In Alfred J. López, Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo (eds) The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South. Routledge 2023.
Ageing and Narration in Huntington’s Disease Memoirs. In Sarah Falcus, Heike Hartung, and Raquel Medina (eds) The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film. Bloomsbury 2023.
'Pandemic Photography: Images from Covid-19 in India'. Photography and Culture 15.1 (2022): 59-75.
‘The AgoraGothic’. Gothic Studies 24.3 (2022): 261-274.
'The Art of Covid-19'. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 58.2 (2022): 253-264.
“English, Human Rights and Literature in the Postcolonial Classroom,” in Nandana Dutta (ed) English Teachers' Accounts: Essays on the Teacher, the Text and the Classroom. Routledge, 2022.
“Graphic Mortality: Malik Sajjad's Munnu and the Culture of Death,” in Samarth Singhal and Amrita Ajay (eds) South Asian Ways of Seeing: Contemporary Visual Cultures. Primus, 2022, pp. 147-164.
The Poetics and Politics of Mourning. eSocial Sciences. 28 Sept. 2020.
Languages of Covid's Cultural Imaginary. eSocial Sciences. 29 Aug. 2020
‘Drawing Migrants and Carceral Spaces: Tings Chak's Undocumented’. Global Perspectives 1.1 (2020).
“Marginality, Suffering, Justice: Questions of Dalit Dignity in Cultural Texts,” in Aakash Singh Rathore (ed) BR Ambedkar: the Quest for Justice. Oxford University Press, 2020.
“The Long Walk: Migrant Workers and Extreme Mobility in the Age of Corona.” Journal of Extreme Anthropology, vol. 4, no.1, 2020, pp. 1-6.
“Visualizing Resistance: Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde”. Critical Survey, vol. 32, no. 4, 2020, pp. 78-95.
“Violent recall: Genocide memories, literary representation, and cosmopolitan memory,” in Ajlina Karamhic-Muratovic and Laura Kromjak (eds) Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence. Routledge, 2020.
“Precarious Lives in the Age of Biocapitalism,” in Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Jacob Wamberg (eds) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism. Bloomsbury, 2020, pp. 425-435.
“Fanon’s Biopolitics,” in D. Byrd, S. J. Miri (Ed.), Frantz Fanon and Emancipatory Social Theory: A View from the 'Wretched'. Brill, 2019, pp. 217-230.
“Graphic Memory, Connective Histories and Dalit Trauma: A Gardener in the Wasteland.” English Language Notes, vol. 57, no. 2, 2019 pp. 143-150.
“Genetic Prosopography and Caste: Natureculture in Contemporary India.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 34, no. 3, 2019, pp. 485-500.
“The Climate of Change: Graphic Adaptation, ‘The Rime of the Modern Mariner and the Ecological Uncanny’,” in Swarnalatha Rangarajan et al (eds), Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication. Routledge, 2019, pp. 26-35.
“Biocultural Metrics and the Moral Policing of Young People's Politics in Contemporary India,” in Maria T Grasso and Judith Bessant (eds), Governing Youth Politics in the Age of Surveillance. Routledge, 2018.
“From Documentary Realism to Figurative Realism: Igort’s The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks and the Holodomor.” CounterText, vol. 3, no. 4, 2018, pp. 362-381.
“Victims, Bollywood and the Construction of a Cele-meme,” in Anthony Elliott (ed), The Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies. Routledge, 2018.
“Literature/Ethics/Reading, CounterText, vol. 3, no. 3, 2017, pp. 354-361.
“The Human Rights Torture Novel: Unmade Subjects, Unmaking Worlds,” Orbis Litterarum, vol. 72, no. 4, 2017, pp. 318-347.
Essays by Anna Kurian
"Teaching Cymbeline during India’s #MeToo Movement,” in Nandana Dutta (ed) English Teachers’ Accounts: Essays on the Teacher, the Text and the Indian Classroom. Routledge, 2021.
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Stolen Generation.” ANQ, vol. 29, no.1, 2016.
“Community, Hospitality, Identity: Teaching the English Country House Poem in India.” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, 2016, vol. 26, no. 2.
“The problem with Aaron: stereotypes in a postcolonial classroom.” English Teaching: Practice & Critique, vol. 14, no.1, 2015, pp. 18-27.
“Dimapur Lynching and the Impossibility of Remembering.” EPW vol. 50, no. 51, 2015, pp. 25-27.
“Teaching Titus Andronicus in Contemporary India.” Radical Teacher, vol. 97, 2013.
“American Children’s Fiction of WWII and the Dissensual Bildungsroman.” Interjuli, vol. 2, 2012.