SHIV KUMAR, Associate Professor, PhD (JMI)   

Dr. Shiv Kumar

Associate Professor
Telephone No: 0129-4117905
E-mail: skumar1@english.du.ac.in
Preferred Contact hours: By Appointment

Ph.D. (Jamia Millia Islamia 2019), MPhil (Jamia Millia Islamia 2012), MA (University of Delhi 2010), BA (University of Delhi 2008)

Biography

Appointments

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi

Taught at the Department of English, Miranda House College, Maitreyi College, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), Government College, Puducherry, and Banaras Hindu University.  

Areas of interest/research

Autobiographies, Biographies and Life Writings,

Cultural Studies,

Dalit Writings,

Diaspora studies,

Writings from the Northeast of India

Courses Taught

Dalit Writings 

Indian Postcolonial Literature 

Modern Literature

Victorian Writings

Honours, Awards, Appointments:

Representative Publications

1.  Kumar, S. (2026). The Untouchable Goddess of Karimayi: A Reading of Chandrasekhar Kambhar’s Karimayi. Language Literature Culture and Cinema: Essays in Honour of Prof. Harish Narang. Ed. Madhumita Chakraborty, Anuradha Ghosh and Mukesh Ranjan. Routledge: Taylor and Francis, London. DOI: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003757917-10/untouchable-goddess-folklore-reading-chandrasekhar-kambar-karimayi-shiv-kumar

2.      Kumar, S. (2025). Acculturation, Madhur Jaffrey and Braj B. Kachru. In: Jaidka, M., Dhar, T.N., Vashisht, N.W. (eds) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Diasporic Indian English Writing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-0045-8_2

3.      Emerging South Asian Dalit Feminists Voices of Dissent and Empowerment. 2025. Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 0 (0).  https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X251321296

4.      ‘Imagined Ethnography and Cultural Strategies: A Study of Easterine Kire’s ‘Sky is My Father and Don’t Run, My Love’ for special edition under Themed Collection on Literature of Northeast India. Ed. Prof. Jyotirmoy Prodhani. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. Vol. 14, No. 2, 2022. E-ISSN-0975-2935. June 30, 2022. Page No. 1-12. https://rupkatha.com/v14n2ne29/

5.      ‘Becoming Dalit Women’s Voice: Engaging with self-reflective narrative in Bama’s Karukku’ Contemporary Voice of Dalit. Sage Publication. September, 05, 2022. 1-14. ISSN: 2456-0502. https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X221117406

Conference/Talks

1. Presented Paper titled ‘Politics of Storytelling and its concerns: A Reading of the Graphic Novel Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability’ in International Virtual Conference on “Humanities through Literature, Film and Media”, organized by School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, on 19-20, October, 2021. 

2. Presented Paper titled ‘From an Untouchable to a Dalit: Past, Present and Un/Futuring in Dalit Writings’ in the Second International Online International Conference on “Memory & Past in South Asia”, organized by Soka University, South Asia Research Center (SARC) and Global Core Centre, on 26-27, November, 2021.

3. Presented Paper titled ‘Ecological Consciousness in the Graphic Novel Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability’ in the International Webinar on Environment Across Disciplines: Perspectives on the 21st Century. (9th to 11th February 2022) Organized by Bodoland University (Sponsored by ICSSR-NERC).

4. International Conference paper titled, ‘Space, Spatiality of Dalit Body and Diasporic Tradition: A Reading of Sujatha Gidla’s Ants Among Elephants’ presented on 24-02-23 in The Global Indian Diasporas: Literary, Cultural and Socio-Economic Perspectives in the 21st Century’ organized by the Centre for Diaspora Studies, Central University of Gujarat on 23-25 February 2023.

5. International Conference paper titled ‘Who and What is Dalit: Interrogating the Formation of Dalit in Select Texts’ accepted in the panel ‘Who Dalit? Why Dalit? How Dalit?: Reading Mediums of the Caste Phenomenon (Part2)’ at North East Modern Language Association Convention 2023 (NeMLA 2023) scheduled to be held in March 2023 in 54th Annual NeMLA Convention March 23-26, 2023 in Niagara Falls, New York, USA.