Essays

2024

How to Include Artificial Bodies as Citizens. Social Inclusion 12 (2024)

The graphic narrative and affront/ier aesthetics : Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers. Brno Studies in English 49.2 (2023). 123-143.

Posthumanism. The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (2024).

2022-23

•  The Textual Apparatus of Empire in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Anglia 140.1 (2022): 50-70. 

• 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. 

• Posthumanisms. The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 31.1 (2023): 214-237.

• Posthumanisms. The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 30.1 (2022) 227–251.

• Digital Initiatives: The Nature of the Beast. eSocial Sciences. 9 July 2022.

• Pandemic Photography: Images from Covid-19 in India. Photography and Culture 15.1 (2022):  59-75.

• The Art of Covid-19. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 58.2 (2022): 253-264.

• The Textual Apparatus of Empire in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Anglia 140.1 (2022): 50-70.

• The Entrepreneurial University and its Questions. eSocial Sciences. 7 Mar. 2022.

• The Humanities of Crisis: Climate Change and the Discipline. eSocial Sciences. 14 Nov. 2021

• ‘Narrating Alzheimer’s Disease: Graphic Medicine and Dana Walrath’s Aliceheimer’s’. Sambalpur Essays in Literatures and Cultures 6 ( 2021). 

• ‘Memory Poetics: The Poetry of Alzheimer’s Disease’. Anekaant  10 (2019-20). 

• Liberal Arts in the Digital Age. eSocial Sciences. 17 Oct. 2021.

• The Managerial University and the Liberal Arts' Balancing Act. eSocial Sciences. 9 Oct. 2021.

• English Colonial Discourse and India. In Oxford Bibliographies Online. Ed. Eugene O'Brien.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

• Teaching and Reading  Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl". ETC:  A Review of General Semantics 76.3-4 (2019): 285-290. 

• How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Neurochemical Selves, Immunities and New Meme-ory Cultures. Al-Shodhana 7.2 (2020). 1-8.

• To the Posthuman Born(e): The Post-natural World of Jeff VanderMeer. Journal of Posthumanism 1.1 (2021): 97-105.

• Travel Writing and Translocal Subjectivity: The Varthamanapusthakam. Jadavpur University Essays and Studies 35 (2020): 160-173. 

• Dalit Literature. In Oxford Bibliographies  Online. Ed. Eugene O'Brien. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

• Visualizing Resistance: Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde. Critical Survey  32.4 (2020): 78-95.

• The Poetics and Politics of Mourning. eSocial Sciences. 28 Sept. 2020.

• Languages of Covid's Cultural Imaginary. eSocial Sciences. 29 Aug. 2020.

• Bollywood Stars and Cancer Memoirs. Biography 43.2 (2020): 86-93.

• Drawing Migrants and Carceral Spaces: Tings Chak's Undocumented. Global Perspectives 1.1 (2020).

• Human Rights and Literature. In Oxford Bibliographies Online. Ed. Eugene O'Brien. New York: Oxford University Pres, 2020.

• Desecration and the Politics of "Image Pollution": Ambedkar Statues and the "Sculptural Encounter" in India. Celebrity Studies.  11.1 (2020): 116-124.

• The Long Walk: Migrant Workers and Extreme Mobility in the Age of Corona. The Journal of Extreme Anthropology 4.1 (2020): E1-E6.

• The Colonial Home: Managing Objects and Servants in British India. Anglo-Saxonica 17.1 (2020): 1-9.

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1.    Nayar, P.K., Graphic Memory, Connective Histories and Dalit Trauma: A Gardener in the Wasteland. English Language Notes. 57(2): 143-150, 2019. 

2.     Nayar, P.K., Genetic Prosopography and Caste: Natureculture in Contemporary India. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. 34(3): 485-500, 2019. 

3.     Nayar, P.K., What the Stars Tell: Celebrity Lifewriting in India. Biography. 42(1), 2019. 

4.     Nayar, P.K., Xenotransplantation, Form-of-Life and Literary Fiction. Critical Posthumanism. 2019. 

5.     Nayar, P.K., Public protest, public pedagogy and the publicness of the public university. Postcolonial Studies. 22(1): 30-43, 2019. 

6.     Nayar, P.K., From Documentary Realism to Figurative Realism: Igort's The Ukrainian and Russian Notebook s and the Holodomor. CounterText. 4(3): 362-381 , 2018. 

7.     Nayar, P.K., Appupen’s Posthuman Gothic: The Snake and the Lotus. South Asian Review. 39(1-2): 70-85, 2018. 

8.     Nayar, P.K., Postcolonial Graphic Lifewriting: Finding My Way and the Subaltern Public Sphere. Narrative. 26(3): 339-357, 2018. 

9.     Nayar, P.K., Graphic Science: Trinity and the Art of the Atomic Bomb. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge.(34), 2018. 

10.  Nayar, P.K., Literature (Now) Contains Graphic Language: Adaptation, Visualization and Transmedia Texts. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. 10(1): 5-17, 2018. 

11.  Nayar, P.K., S.T. Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as a Witness Poem. The Indian Journal of English Studies. 55: 27-48, 2018. 

12.  Nayar, P.K., Literature/Ethics/Reading. CounterText. 3(3): 354-361, 2018. 

13.  Nayar, P.K., Biopics: The Year in India. Biography. 40(4): 604-610, 2017. 

14.  Nayar, P.K. Touchscreens and Architexture: Tactile Appropriations, the World and the Digital Uncanny. MCJLSS.1(1): 7-13, 2017. 

15.  Nayar, P.K., Marginality, Suffering, Justice: Questions of Dalit Dignity in Cultural Text. eSocial Sciences. 2017. 

16.  Nayar, P.K., Gender and the Graphic’, Introduction to Special Section on ‘Gender and the Graphic. Indian Jounal of Gender Studies. 24(2): 231-235, 2017. 

17.  Nayar, P.K., Mobility and Insurgent Celebrityhood: The Case of Arundhati Roy. Open Cultural Studies. 1(1): 46-54, 2017. 

18.  Nayar, P.K., The Human Rights Torture Novel: Unmade Subjects, Unmaking Worlds. Orbis Litterarum. 72(4): 318-347, 2017. 

19.  Nayar, P.K., The Compassionate Social Sphere: Native Christian Auto/biographies in Colonial India, 1870-1920. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature. 11(1), 2017. 

20.  Nayar, P.K., A Postcolonial Humanities Manifesto. Rendezvous: Journal of Arts and Letters. 43(1): 111-122, 2017. 

21.  Nayar, P.K., Genomes, or the Book of Life Itself. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. 32(2): 217-219, 2017. 

22.  Nayar, P.K., An Imperial Nutrition Discourse: “Imperial Dietetics” in Jail Manuals, India 1850-1911. Anekaant: A Journal of Polysemic Thought. 5(2017): 43-53, 2017. 

23.  Nayar, P.K., The Biogenographic Imagination: DNA, History and the Romance of Species Cosmopolitanism. The Humanities Circle. 4(2): 17-35, 2016. 

24.  Nayar, P.K., A Matter of Taste: Monstrosity, Consumption and Hannibal Lecter. The IIS University Journal of Arts. 5(1): 1-9, 2016. 

25.  Nayar, P.K., From Graphic Passing to Witnessing the Graphic: Racial Identity and Public Self-fashioning in Incognegro. Image and Text: a Journal for Design. 28(1): 7-26, 2016. 

26.  Nayar, P.K., Autobiogenography: Genomes and Lifewriting. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. 31(3): 509-525, 2016. 

27.  Nayar, P.K., Dissident Mobilities: The Voyage of the Komagata Maru and Indian Travellers in the Empire. South Asian Diaspora. 8(2): 99-110, 2016. 

28.  Nayar, P.K., Civil Modernity: The Management of Manners and Polite Imperial Relations in India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 39(4): 740-757, 2016. 

29.  Nayar, P.K., Intellectual Autonomy, Intellectual Property and the New Enclosures. eSocial Sciences . 2016. 

30.  Nayar, P.K., The forms of history: This Side, That Side, graphic narrative and the partitions of the Indian subcontinent. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 52(4): 481-493,  2016. 

31.  Nayar, P.K., Radical Graphics: Martin Luther King, Jr., BR Ambedkar, and Comics Auto/Biography. Biography. 39(2): 147-171, 2016. 

32.  Nayar, P.K., The Double (H)elixir of Life: Genetic Citizenship and Belonging in the 21st Century, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences . The Anxiety of Intimacy Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. 22(2): 124-134, 2015. 

33.  Nayar, P.K., Communicable Diseases: Graphic Medicine and the Extreme. Journal of Creative Communications. 10(2): 161-175, 2015. 

34.  Nayar, P.K., Elementals: The Arts of Bhopal, 1984-2015. eSocial Sciences. 2015. 

35.  Nayar, P.K., Dalit Poetry and the Aesthetics of Traumatic Materialism. Indian Jounal of Gender Studies. 22(1): 1-14, 2015. 

36.  Nayar, P.K., The Imperial Picturesque in Felicia Hemans The Indian City. Journal of Literary Studies. 31(1): 34-50, 2015. 

37.  Nayar, P.K., On Horror and Helplessness: After Peshawar. Economic and Political Weekly. 50(9): 23-25, 2015. 

38.  Nayar, P.K., Branding Bill: The Shakespearean Commons. Economic and Political Weekly. 50(12): 41, 2015. 

39.  Nayar, P.K., The Dimapur Lynching and Cultures of Public Violence. Seminar. 668: 71-74, 2015. 

40.  Nayar, P.K., The Violence of Disappearance: Reading the Boko Haram Kidnapping. eSocial Sciences . 2015.

41.  Nayar, P.K., William Blake’s “London” as a Surveillance Poem. The Explicator. 72(4): 328-332, 2014. 

42.  Nayar, P.K., A Sting in the Tale. Economic and Political Weekly. 49(22), 2014. 

43.  Nayar, P.K., Indigenous Cultures and the Ecology of Protest: Moral Economy and “Knowing Subalternity” in Dalit and Tribal writing from India. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 50(3): 291-303, 2014. 

44.  Nayar, P.K., Abu Ghraib@10: The Empire of the Senseless. The Four Quarters Magazine. 2014. 

45.  Nayar, P.K., Kubla Khan and its Narratives of Possible Worlds. Changing English. 20(4): 404-408, 2013. 

46.  Nayar, P.K., Mobility, migrant mnemonics and memory citizenship: Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother. Nordic Journal of English Studies. 12(2): 81-101, 2013. 

47.  Nayar, P.K., The Biotechnological Uncanny: Frank Miller’s Ronin. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS). 19(1): 135-146, 2013. 

48.  Nayar, P.K., Watery Friction: The River Narmada, Celebrity, and New Grammars of Protest. Celebrity studies. 4(3): 292-310, 2013. 

49.  Nayar, P.K., The Interracial Sublime: Gender and Race in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya.   Géneros Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies. 2(3): 233-254, 2013. 

50.  Nayar, P.K., Mobility and Anxious Cosmopolitanism: Jamaica Kincaid’s Among Flowers. Transnational Literature. 6(1), 2013. 

51.  Nayar, P.K., The Poetics of Postcolonial Atrocity: Dalit Life Writing, Testimonio, and Human Rights.  Ariel: A review of international English literature. 42(3-4): 237-264, 2013. 

52.  Nayar, P.K., The Postcolonial Uncanny: The Politics of Dispossession in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide. College Literature. 37(4): 88-119, 2013. 

53.  Nayar, P.K., A New Biological Citizenship: Posthumanism in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling. MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 58(4): 796-817, 2012. 

54.  Nayar, P.K., Beyond the Colonial Subject: Mobility, Cosmopolitanism and Self-fashioning in Sarat Chandra Das's A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. 14(2): 1-16, 2012. 

55.  Nayar, P.K., The “Disorderly Memsahib”: Political Domesticity in Alice Perrin’s Fict. Brno studies in English. 38(1):123-138, 2012. 

56.  Nayar, P.K., Colonial Subjects and Aesthetic Understanding: Indian Travel Literature about England, 1870-1900. South Asian Review. 33(1): 31-52, 2012. 

57.  Nayar, P.K., Towards a Postcolonial Critical Literacy: Bhimayana and the Indian Graphic Novel. South Asian Film and Media. 3(1): 3-21, 2012. 

58.  Nayar, P.K., Growing Up Different(ly): Space, Community and the Dissensual Bildungsroman in Suzanne Collins Growing Up Different(ly): Space, Community and the Dissensual Bildungsroman in Suzanne Collins. Journal of Postcolonial Networks. 2, 2012. 

59.  Nayar, P.K., The Politics of Form in Dalit Fiction: Bama’s Sangati and Sivakami’sThe Grip of Change. 18(3): 365-380, 2011. 

60.  Nayar, P.K., Traumatic Materialism: Info-flow, Bodies and Intersections in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. Westerly. 56(2): 48-61, 2011. 

61.  Nayar, P.K., Haunted Knights in Spandex: Self and Othering in the Superhero Mythos. The Mediterranean Journal of the Humanities. 1(2): 173-181, 2011. 

62.  Nayar, P.K., From Imagination to Inquiry: The Discourse of “Discovery” in Early English Writings on India. Journeys. 12(2): 1-27, 2011. 

63.  Nayar, P.K., The Digital Dalit: Subalternity and Cyberspace. The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities. 37(1-2): 69-74, 2011. 

64.  Nayar, P.K., Novel Globalism, the Transnational Exotic and Spectral Cosmopolitanism: David Mitchell’s Fiction. The Grove: Working Papers in English Studies. 18(11): 69-86, 2011. 

65.  Nayar, P.K., Subalternity and Translation: The Cultural Apparatus of Human Rights. Economic and Political Weekly. 46(9): 23-26, 2011. 

66.  Nayar, P.K., Empire Communications, Inc. Nineteenth-Century Imperial Pageantry and the Politics of Display. Journal of Creative Communications. 5(2): 75-87, 2010. 

67.  Nayar, P.K., The Informational Economy and Its Body in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome. Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Culture. 31(2): 6, 2010. 

68.  Nayar, P.K., How to Domesticate a Vampire: Gender, Blood Relations and Sexuality in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight. Nebula. 7(3): 60-76, 2010. 

69.  Nayar, P.K., WikiLeaks, the New Information Cultures and Digital Parrhesia. Economic and Political Weekly. 45(52): 27-30, 2010. 

70.  Nayar, P.K., Information Spaces, Digital Culture and Utopia. Journal of Contemporary Thought. 31: 113-132, 2010. 

71.  Nayar, P.K., Trauma, Testimony and Human Rights: Women’s Atrocity Narratives from Postcolonial India. South Asian Review. 29(1): 27-44, 2009. 

72.  Nayar, P.K., Postcolonial Affects: Victim Life Narratives and Human Rights in Contemporary India. Postcolonial Text. 5(4): 1-22, 2009. 

73.  Nayar, P.K., African American Travel Writing and the Politics of Mobility: The Narrative of Nancy Prince. Indian Journal of Gender Studies. 16(1): 1-20, 2009. 

74.  Nayar, P.K., Pedestrian Politics: William Wordsworth’s The Old Cumberland Beggar. The Explicator. 67(2): 80-83, 2009. 

75.  Nayar, P.K., The Postcolonial Picturesque: The Poetry of Northeast India. Commonwealth: Essays and Studies. 30(2): 5-21, 2008. 

76.  Nayar, P.K., New Media, Digitextuality and Public Space: Reading Cybermohalla. Postcolonial Text. 4(1): 1-12, 2008. 

77.  Nayar, P.K., Marvelous Excesses: English Travel Writing and India, 1608-1727. Journal of British Studies. 44(2): 213-238, 2005. 

78.  Nayar, P.K., Another Source for Coleridge’s Pleasure-Dome in Kubla Khan. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. 17(4): 35-37, 2004. 

79.  Nayar, P.K., The Discourse of Difficulty: English Travel Writing and India, 1600-1720. Prose Studies. 26(3): 357-394, 2003. 

80.  Nayar, P.K., The Imperial Sublime: English Travel Writing and India. Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. 2(2): 57-99, 2002. 

81.  Nayar, P.K., Colonial proxemics: the embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to India. Studies in Travel Writing. 6(1): 29-53, 2002. 

82. Bama’s Karukku: Dalit Lifewriting as Testimonio, Journal of Commonwealth Literature 41.2 (2006): 83-100.