Although his academic training in English Literature at the undergraduate and postgraduate level was quite conventional, it changed entirely to interdisciplinary studies during his M.Phil. (English Literature) and Ph.D., (Cultural Studies), at the English and Foreign Languages University (EFL-U), Hyderabad. However, classrooms or academic institutions have not been the only source of his learning. Active participation in student politics and in some of the social and political movements that India has witnessed from the mid-1980s onwards has given him the opportunity to interact with and learn from some of the best scholars, both within and outside the academy.
Before joining NALSAR in 2017, he had worked as an Assistant Professor (Temp) & Guest Faculty at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad (UoH), between 2011 and 2017, where he taught several IMA, MA and M.Phil. courses. He also taught American students a couple of courses as part of their “Study in India Program” (SIP) at the same University. Prior to joining UoH, he had worked as a Lecturer in English for five years in Saudi Arabia, where he taught English language and literature.
He was a Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellow at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, in 2013, and was a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, from 2008 to 2011.
He has translated a few short stories and essays from Telugu to English and vice versa.
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