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Dr. Ajeesh A K

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Assistant Professor & Head

English

Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore

2.5

Transnational Studies, Environmental Humanities, Energy Studies, Identity Studies

Environmental Humanities and Transnational Studies

Educational
Qualifications
(From Highest)

2024

Ph.D in Transnational Studies from VIT Vellore

2018

M.A in English Language and Literature from University of Madras

2016

B.A in English Language and Literature from University of Madras

Professional
Experience

2024

Assistant Professor at SR University Warangal, from 2024-11-12 to .

2023

Visiting Assistant Professor at NIT Warangal, from 2023-09-27 to 2024-05-31.

2021

Adhoc Faculty at NIT Warangal, from 2021-12-21 to 2023-07-15.

Key Publications

Ajeesh, A. K. (2025). 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). https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.15.1.7

Ajeesh, A. K. (2025). Vulnerability as a shared condition: Rethinking empathy across species and circuits. Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-025-10280-7

Ajeesh A K. (2025). You Don’t Know What War Is: Yeva Skalietska’s Diary as a Testimony and Counter-Narrative of Trauma in Conflict. Life Writing, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2025.2555623

Ajeesh, A K (2025). Surviving in the Margins: Disability, toxic embodiment, and belonging in Indra Sinha's Animal's people. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 12, 101985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101985

Ajeesh, A. K. (2024). Liberal theories and ecological justice: Proposing a non-hierarchical framework. Athena: Filosofijos studijos, 19, 137–155. https://doi.org/10.53631/Athena.2024.19.8

Ajeesh, A. K., & Halavath, R. (2025). Feral ecologies and the toxic sublime: Intermedial narratives of contamination in Fever Dream. Ekphrasis: Images, Cinema, Theory, Media, 33(1), 103–120. https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.33.7

Ajeesh, A. K., & Kudale, K. M. (2024). National affects: the everyday atmospheres of being political: by Angharad Closs Stephens, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, 232 pp., £90 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7556-4143-7. Social Identities, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2024.2388149

Ajeesh, A. K. (2023). Victory City by Salman Rushdie. Rupkatha, 15(2), June. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.03

Ajeesh, A. K., & Rukmini, S. (2022). Transnational voices in the digital age: Exploring the affordances of identity in Pico Iyer's The Global Soul. International Journal of Literary Humanities, 20, July. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-7912/cgp/v20i02/97-106

Ajeesh, A. K., & Rukmini, S. (2022). Transnational voices in contemporary Pakistani literature: An exploration of fragmented self and hybrid identity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Angles, 14, April. https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.5099

Ajeesh, A. K., & Pranesh, K. (2019). Translation, culture, and loss of meaning in K. R. Meera’s Aarachar. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 8, September. https://doi.org/10.35940/ijrte.C5295.098319

Ajeesh, A. K., & Rukmini, S. (2022). Posthuman perception of artificial intelligence in science fiction: An exploration of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. AI & Society, 38, July. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01533-9

Ajeesh, A. K., & Pranesh, K. (2019). Self-translation as an effective tool to restructure the domain of translation studies. IUP Journal of English Studies, 14(4), December. https://iupindia.in/1912/English%20Studies/Self_Translation.asp

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