Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Literature, Existentialism, Gandhian Studies
Office
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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
IIT Kanpur
Kanpur 208016
PhD, University of Southampton (UK), 2008
Thesis Title: Poetry for Poetry's Sake: A Defence
Thesis Supervisor: Alex Neill, Aaron Ridley
M.A., University of Pune, 2000
B.A., University of Pune, 1998
Overseas Research Students' Award (by the Universities UK) and Major Studentship (by the University of Southampton) for doctoral research at the University of Southampton, 2002-2005
Endeavour Research Fellowship by the Australian Government for post-doctoral research at the University of Sydney, May-November 2012
Erasmus Mundus Fellowship (for research at the University of Amsterdam in May-June 2014)
Baburav Bagul Shabda Puraskar for the short-story collection, Vivade Vishade Pramade Pravase, 2012
P. N. Pandit Puraskar for the short-story collection, Vivade Vishade Pramade Pravase, 2012