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Prof. Udaya Kumar

Udaya Kumar is Professor at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has been Professor of English at the University of Delhi and of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He was Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Newcastle University and Fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and Indian Institute of Advanced Study. His publications include Writing the First Person: Literature, History and Autobiography in Modern Kerala (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2016) and The Joycean Labyrinth: Repetition, Time and Tradition in 'Ulysses' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991). His recent research has focused on death and contemporary culture, forms of life writing, cultural histories of the body, and idioms of vernacular social thought.
Education:

  • 1984 88 D.PHIL in English Literature. ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD. Title of thesis: Repetition, Time and Structure in James Joyce's Ulysses.
  • 1982 84 M.PHIL in English. JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, New Delhi. Dissertation on ‘Narrative Discourse in Joyce’s Novels’ interrupted.
  • 1980 82 M.A. in English Language and Literature. UNIVERSITY OF KERALA, India

Teaching & Research Experience:
  • PROFESSOR, CENTRE FOR ENGLISH STUDIES, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, New Delhi – 110067, India, October 2015- the present.
  • PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI, Delhi – 110 007, India, March 2005 – September 2015.
  • READER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI, Delhi – 110 007, India, March 1997 – March 2005.
  • SENIOR FELLOW, NEHRU MEMORIAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY, New Delhi – 110 011, India, December 2012-November 2014. Title of research project: “History, Identity, Spatiality: New Idioms of Vernacular Social Thought in Early Twentieth Century Kerala.”
  • LEVERHULME VISITING PROFESSOR, University of Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, February 2009 – June 2010
  • PROFESSOR OF CULTURAL STUDIES, CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTA, January 2005 – January 2008
  • FELLOW, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDY, SHIMLA, India, October 1995 - March 1997. Area of research: ‘Autobiography and the Imaginings of the Self’.
  • READER IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF POONA, Pune, India, June 1991 - July 1992; October 1988 - April 1989
  • MAÎTRE ASSISTANT SUPPLÉANT IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE, Switzerland, November 1990 April 1991
  • Tutor, ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD, 1987 88; LADY MARGARET HALL, OXFORD, 1986 88. Lecturer, ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, Hilary Term 1987.
  • Tutor, PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD, 1988; LADY MARGARET HALL, OXFORD, 1988

BOOKS:

  • Writing the First Person: Literature, History and Autobiography in Modern Kerala. Ranikhet: Permanent Black, in association with Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2016. https://www.amazon.in/dp/8178245205
  • The Joycean Labyrinth: Repetition, Time and Tradition in `Ulysses'. Oxford: Clarendon Press, October 1991, rpt. 2001. http://www.amazon.in/dp/0198112211/
RESEARCH PAPERS:
Published more than 70 papers in international and National journals.

Official Address:
Professor, Centre for English Studies School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India
Phone: +91-99100-89756
E-Mail: udayakumar@mail.jnu.ac.in, udayaxkumar@gmail.com

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