Programme Convenors 

Pramod K Nayar, the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, 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. For more information visit :  https://ucvulnerabilitystudies.uohyd.ac.in https://uohyd.academia.edu/pramodKNayar 

Anna Kurian, Faculty Fellow the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, 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.

V.K. Karthika is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. She earned her Master's in TESOL Studies from the University of Leeds, England and her Ph.D. from the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. She has published her work in reputed journals like The Journal of Asia TEFL, Economic and Political Weekly, and Journal of International Women’s Studies. She regularly writes articles for The Pioneer, Madras Courier, India Art Review, The Logical Indian and Arithmetic of Compassion. Interested in cultural criticism and philosophy of education, her work focuses on communicative peace and sustainable development goals. Her interdisciplinary research explores design thinking, posthumanism and sustainable development goals within the context of English Language Education . She carries out studies in art and cultural studies addressing the questions of vulnerability and subjectivity in literature and popular culture.