SR University

Ph.D

Dr. Ajeesh A K

Assistant Professor, Head, Department of English • Department of English

PhD from

Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore

Years of Experience

5 Years

Web Pages

Contact Details

ajeesh.ak@sru.edu.in

Availability

My research usually begins with images. I work on comics and graphic narrative, and I am drawn most to graphic medicine and graphic journalism, where drawing becomes a way of holding illness, pain and testimony that prose often lets slip. Much of my work reads literature and film from the Global South through postcolonial thought and the environmental humanities, especially where ecological harm meets ordinary life. Underneath this sits a growing concern with ethics and justice as they look from the Global South: who is asked to bear harm, who gets to name it, and what accountability could mean when the frameworks we inherit were built elsewhere.

Interests

Global South Graphic Narratives Visual Medium

Research Areas

Environmental Humanities Medical Humanities Ethics and Justice Posthuman Studies

Student Supervision

Ph.D.: 4 Ongoing

Ph.D. in Transnational Studies

2024

VIT Vellore

M.A. in English Language and Literature

2018

University of Madras

B.A. in English Language and Literature

2016

University of Madras

Visiting Assistant Professor

2020-2024

National Institute of Technology Warangal

→ Communication Skills
→ Professional and Personal Development
→ Critical Thinking and Interpersonal Skills

Key Publications

A. K. Ajeesh. “Seeing pain, trauma and anxiety: The visual politics of credibility in the Really Strange series”. Medical Humanities, online first, https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2026-014022
Jessy Mathew and A. K. Ajeesh. “Speaking silence: Water, grief, and feminist sonic restraint in Ullozhukku”. Journal for Cultural Research, 30(3), 434–448, https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2026.2700555
A. K. Ajeesh. “Crone futures: Ecofeminist reimaginings of aging and planetary ethics”. Journal of Women & Aging, online first, 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2026.2685574
A. K. Ajeesh. “Untranslatable ecologies: Rethinking ecotranslation from postcolonial margins”. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 53, 103–119, https://doi.org/10.25911/440C-9928
A. K. Ajeesh. “Translating the tropical tourist gaze: Hyperreal Asia in Pico Iyer’s Video Night in Kathmandu”. eTropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 25(1), 61–80, https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.25.1.2026.4281
A. K. Ajeesh. “Corporate panopticons: Eggers’ exploration of privacy and personhood in the age of surveillance capitalism”. Surveillance & Society, 24(1/2), 89–102, https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v24i1.18738
A. K. Ajeesh. “The ghost in the gendered machine: AI, speculative fiction, and the illusion of inclusivity”. AI & Society, 41, 5091–5101, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-02864-7
A. K. Ajeesh and Pranesh Kumar. “Beyond the Anthropocene: Toward a symbiotic future in the age of collapse”. Athena: Philosophical Studies, 20, https://doi.org/10.53631/Athena.2025.20.12
A. K. Ajeesh. “Vulnerability as a shared condition: Rethinking empathy across species and circuits”. Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, online first, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-025-10280-7
A. K. Ajeesh. “Crude wars in sacrifice zones: Graphic witnessing of slow violence and slow justice in Crude: A Memoir”. University of Bucharest Review: Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 15(1), 76–88, https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.15.1.7
A. K. Ajeesh and Rajesh Halavath. “Feral ecologies and the toxic sublime: Intermedial narratives of contamination in Fever Dream”. Ekphrasis: Images, Theory, Cinema, Media, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.33.7
Isha Srishti Panna, Vishwanathan M. Raja and A. K. Ajeesh. “You don’t know what war is: Yeva Skalietska’s diary as a testimony and counter-narrative of trauma in conflict”. Life Writing, 22(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2025.2555623
A. K. Ajeesh. “Liberal theories and ecological justice: Proposing a non-hierarchical framework”. Athena: Philosophical Studies, 19, https://doi.org/10.53631/Athena.2024.19.8
A. K. Ajeesh and S. Rukmini. “Posthuman perception of artificial intelligence in science fiction: An exploration of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun”. AI & Society, 38(2), 853–860, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01533-9
A. K. Ajeesh and S. Rukmini. “Transnational voices in the digital age: Exploring the affordances of identity in Pico Iyer’s The Global Soul”. The International Journal of Literary Humanities, 20(2), 97–106, https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-7912/CGP/v20i02/97-106
A. K. Ajeesh and S. Rukmini. “Transnational voices in contemporary Pakistani literature: An exploration of fragmented self and hybrid identity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist”. Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World, 14, https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.5099
A. K. Ajeesh and R. Pranesh Kumar. “Self-translation as an effective tool to restructure the domain of translation studies”. The IUP Journal of English Studies, 14(4), 40–52