The Team

Members of the team from UoH have been working in the broad field of Vulnerability Studies and cognate areas, although we did not identify our work as such. Publications and talks, therefore, addressing various aspects and kinds of vulnerability have been a part of our track record for some years now. 

Pramod K Nayar
Chairholder
Pramod K Nayar, the Chairholder, is a Professor in the Department of English. He has published on Human Rights and Literary-Cultural Studies, Posthumanism, Graphic Novels, and English writings on India. His books have appeared from Polity, Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury, Routledge, Palgrave-Macmillan, Lexington, De Gruyter, Rowman and Littlefield, Penguin and Orient BlackSwan. Among these are Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity and the Biopolitical Uncanny, Human Rights and Literature, Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India, Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture, The Extreme in Contemporary Culture, The Human Rights Graphic Novel: Drawing it Just Right, Alzheimer’s Disease Memoirs: Poetics of the Forgetting Self, Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity.  Besides essays in numerous anthologies worldwide, he has also published in Modern Fiction Studies, Narrative, Postcolonial Studies, Postcolonial Text, Celebrity Studies, Ariel, Kunapipi, Changing English, Orbis Litterarum and other journals.  He has received the Visitor’s Award for Best Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (2018) from the President of India and has been recently (2022) elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He teaches elective courses in The New Humanities, Human Rights Cultures and Vulnerability Studies in the Department of English. 
He is also the Co-Principal Investigator of the world’s first OER for Indian Writing in English. More information may be found here.
Anna Kurian
Faculty Fellow

Anna Kurian, Faculty Fellow, is a Professor in the Department of English specializing in Shakespeare and the Early Modern, Children’s and Young Adult Literature and cultural politics. Her work has appeared in Radical Teacher, Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Scene, ANQ, English Teaching: Practice & Critique, Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. She has edited seven Literature Readers for Cambridge University Press, for use in middle-to-high school classes, and is the author of Shakespeare from Orient BlackSwan. Besides these, she occasionally writes for newspapers and periodicals on contemporary cultural politics and higher education.   She is  the Principal Investigator of the world’s first OER for Indian Writing in English. She has been cited in The New Oxford Shakespeare and The Year’s Work in English Studies. More information may be found here.

Md Zahidul Haque
Faculty Fellow

Md. Zahidul Haque, Associate Professor in Urdu, is particularly interested in Classical Urdu poetry of the 18th century, with related interests in the comparative, critical and sociological study of classical texts. Apart from this he also works in the area of Urdu Literary Studies, Minority Studies, History of Urdu Language & Literature, Comparative Study and Mass Media. He has been associated with the University of Delhi and SDBI College, University of Calcutta, before moving to the University of Hyderabad. He has published six books and more than 50 articles, book reviews and translations in reputed international and national journals. He has participated and presented papers in numerous seminars and conferences, at various levels. He is the recipient of the Imdad Imam Asar Research Award (2007) and the Second Award in the year 2016 by the Bihar Urdu Academy, Govt. of Bihar. He also received the Chancellor’s Award (2018) from the University of Hyderabad for his contribution to teaching & research.

Atul V Nair
Project Assistant

Atul V. Nair is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad (UoH). His doctoral project examines the representation of Indian literature in English periodicals of the long nineteenth century. He works as a project assistant for IWE Online, an IoE project at UoH, and is interested in the early history of English in India, in addition to colonial Indian periodicals and print culture.

Interns
Shahim Sheikh
has done his MA in English from the University of Hyderabad. He is currently working as a Research Editor. He is interested in cinema, photography, art history and cultural studies.
Naorem Washington Singh
is an MA graduate from the Department of English, University of Hyderabad. He is interested in graphic narratives, trauma studies, and English writings from North-East India, amongst others.
Muhammed Thareekh Bin Basheer
is currently enrolled in the Master of Public Health program at the University of Hyderabad.

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