Nakul Kundra

About

Dr Nakul Kundra is a Professor of English in the Department of English and Modern European Languages at the University of Allahabad, Prayagraj. His research mainly focuses on the representation of the freedom struggle in Indian literature, particularly in its response to the challenges and discontents of colonialism and the historical past. India’s experimental and avant-garde counterculture appeals to him the most for its potentiality as a research topic in the field of Indian Writing. Prof. Kundra’s articles have been published by reputed press/organisations/ universities such as Pennsylvania State University Press (USA), University of Florida Press (USA), Taylor & Francis (UK), De Gruyter (Poland), Cell Press (Cambridge), Philosophy Documentation Center (USA), ICFAI (India), Dibrugarh University (India), Panjab University (India), IIS University (India), and Assumption University (Thailand). His short story book, The Whirlpool of Riddles, has been published by Sahitya Akademi (Ministry of Culture, Government of India). Prof. Kundra has been invited as a resource person/ subject expert/ teacher trainer by prestigious universities like MMV Banaras Hindu University, Central University of Jammu, Panjab University, Punjab Technical University, SBBS University and Amity University. He has delivered more than fifty guest lectures.

Employment

• University of Allahabad Professor of English
  2025 - Present
• University of Allahabad Associate Professor of English
  2022 - 2025
• DAV University, Jalandhar Assistant Professor & Coordinator
  2013 - 2022

Education

• Guru Nanak Dev University PhD
  ? - 2016

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (9)

• Fijian students’ perceptions drawn on Indian popular culture: exploring cultural hybridity and the twice-removed-from-reality image of India
  Cogent Arts & Humanities 2025 DOI: 10.1080/23311983.2025.2456349
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• Perceiving gender dynamics perpetuated through Indian media: indigenous Fijian students’ views on Indian women and third gender
  Cogent Arts & Humanities 2025 DOI: 10.1080/23311983.2025.2472547
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• Assessment of the Local Traditional Knowledge and Practices of Flood Risk Identification Techniques: A Case Study of Nadaro Village, Tailevu, Fiji
  2023 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26143-5_7
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• Politics of Political Representation: Gandhian Nationalism vs. Nehruvian Socialism in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
  South Asian Review 2022 DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2021.1965458
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• Tourist Experience at Port and Town: Assessing Cruiser Satisfaction during Self-Organized Onshore Excursions at Lautoka Port, Fiji, in 2018-2019
  Heliyon 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09426
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• Vaishnava nation and militant nationalism in Bankimacandra Chatterji's anandamath, or the Sacred Brotherhood
  Journal of Religion and Violence 2021 DOI: 10.5840/jrv202142588
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• Gandhian nationalism in the garb of religion and dharma: A study of Raja Rao's Kanthapura
  IUP Journal of English Studies 2019
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• Non-Parochial inclusive nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore's Gora
  Forum for World Literature Studies 2019
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• Understanding nation and nationalism
  Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 2019 DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.21.2.0125
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