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Biografische Angaben
Dr. Pavan Malreddy teaches at the Institute of English and American Studies. He specializes in 20th and 21st century comparative Anglophone literatures & cultures with a regional focus on East Asia, Africa, and South Asia and with a thematic focus on conflicts, communal bonds, insurgencies, and populism. He has authored essays on figures and themes as wide-ranging as Aung San Suu Kyi, Salman Rushdie, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Indian cinema, Brexit, populism, terrorism, and the civil war in Burma, among others (see full list of publications). He has interviewed prominent novelists and theorists such as Arundhati Roy, Yann Martel, Homi K. Bhabha, Mohsin Hamid, Tom McCarthy, Amit Chaudhuri, and Tabish Khair. His current research project focuses on the armed insurgencies in India, Burma, and Nigeria. He co-edits Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium, and the South Asian and Middle Eastern volumes of The Literary Encyclopedia. He is affiliated with the research group Democratic Vistas (Institute for Advanced Study, Bad Homburg), Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, and Moving Cultures Masters Programme.
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Publikationen
2022 ‘Im Konflikt verbunden: Der Staat, die Straße und das organisierte Misstrauen/Bound by Conflict: The State, the Street and Organized Distrust in India’s Communal Violence’. Special Issue ‘Vergemeinschaftung durch Misstrauen? (ed. Greta Wagner) WestEnd: Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 2 (22): 97-105.
2022 ‘Postsecular Longings? Religious Dissent, Faith, and Gurus in Indian Cinema’. Third Text 35 (5), https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2022.2049159.
2021 ‘The Syntax of Everyday Injustice: A Conversation with Arundhati Roy’. Special issue ‘Crisis and Recovery’. Wasafiri 107, 41-49.
2020 (co-edited with Michael C. Frank) Narratives of the War on Terror: Global Perspectives. Oxon and New York: Routlegde.
2020 (with Anindya S. Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann) ‘Discoursing Populism: Types, Typologies and Contexts’. Special Issue of Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 5 (2): 1-8S.