Avishek Parui

About

I am an Associate Professor in English and Memory Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, having done my PhD in English from Durham University, UK. I am the author of Postmodern Literatures (Orient Blackswan, 2018) and Culture and the Literary: Matter, Metaphor, Memory (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). I am the Principal Investigator at the Centre for Memory Studies (CMS) at IIT Madras and the founding chairperson of the Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS).

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Associate Professor in English
  2022 - Present
• Durham University Department of English Studies Post Doctoral Tutor
  2013 - 2014

Education

• Durham University Department of English Studies PhD
  2010 - 2014

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (17)

• Plasticity, Corporeality, and Fictional Forms: An Intersectional Study of Memory, Embodiment, and Psychological States in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain
  Comparative American Studies An International Journal 2026 DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2025.2597039
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• Driving forward a new perspective on everyday memory in the real world
  Neuroscience 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2025.10.058
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• The postdigital postcolonial: A study of the Anglo-Indian community through the Augmented Reality app MemoryBytes
  Memory Studies 2025 DOI: 10.1177/17506980251320783
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• “And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novel Black Hole
  Medical Humanities 2024 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012625
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• ‘left right left’ : Plasticity, Affect, and Self-shaping Orientations in J M Coetzee’s Slow Man
  Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 2024 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2024.2325767
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• Memory, Insidious trauma, and Refugee crisis in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (2015)
  Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 2023 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.30
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• “Do not shoot, I’m a B–b–British object!”: Reading David Malouf in Indian universities
  Journal of Postcolonial Writing 2022 DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2022.2026570
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• “An umbrella made of precious gems”: An Examination of Memory and Diasporic Identities in Kerala Jewish Songs and Literature
  Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 2020 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n5.rioc1s32n1
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• “Shadowy objects in the test tubes”: Biocitizenship, Disposable Bodies, and Wasted Lives in Hanif Kureishi’s “The Body” and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
  Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 2020 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.04
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• These were made-to-order babies: Reterritorialised Kinship, Neoliberal Eugenics and Artificial Reproductive Technology in Kishwar Desai's Origins of Love
  Medical Humanities 2019 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2018-011522
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