Dr. Anurag Kumar

• Ph.D. in English – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (2012)
  Specialization: African American Literature
• UGC-NET – 2005
• M.A. in English Literature – University of Lucknow (2004)
  Specialization: English Literature
• B.A.  – CSJM University (2002)

• Associate Professor, School of Languages and Literature
  SMVD University (November 2024-Present)

• Assistant Professor, School of Languages and Literature
  SMVD University (January 2015–November 2024)

• Assistant Professor, Department of English
  DDU College, University of Delhi (July 2012–March 2014)

Courses Teaching (January-May 2025)

Literary Theory and Criticism (Lecture Plan)

Literary Theory (Lecture Plan)

• Head of Department, School of Languages and Literature– SMVDU University (2023–Present)

• In-Charge, Media Cell– SMVD University (2023-Present)

• Nodal Officer, Hindi Cell-SMVD University (2024-Present)

• Co-Investigator – ICSSR Sponsored Project titled, Reviving Memories through Cuisine: Tracing Cultural Consciousness and Social Identity of Kashmiri Pandits, SMVD University (2024–Present)

• Reviving Memories through Cuisine: Tracing Cultural Consciousness and Social Identity of Kashmiri Pandits (ICSSR-Sponsored) 2024-Present

1. Badyal, Surbhi and Anurag Kumar. Co-cultural Communication and Resistant Language: Dalit Women’s Social Strategy in Urmila Pawar’s The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoirs and We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement, and Viramma’s Viramma, life of an untouchable. Contemporary Voice of Dalit (Online First) [Scopus]
2. Kumar, Anurag, Isha Malhotra, and Rishav Bali. The Changing Contours of the Indian Public Sphere: Courtesans, Culture, and the British Invasion of Oudh in Kenize Mourad’s In the City of Gold and Silver. Journal of International Women’s Studies5, 2023 [Scopus]
3. Sharma, Surbhi and Anurag Kumar. Single African American Motherhood Vis-à-vis Black Feminist Standpoint: An Autoethnographic Study of Maya Angelou’s Experience. Journal of Namibian Studies 35.51, 2023 [Scopus]
4. Kumar, Anurag, Isha Malhotra, and Nagendra Kumar. Dalit Humanism: Marginal Spatial Reality as a Site of Dalit Counterpublic in Bama’s Sangati and Tulsiram’s Contemporary Voice of Dalit 2022 (online first) [Scopus]
5. Vats, Adishree and Anurag Kumar. Cultural Autonomy as Impregnable Armour: Locating Black Feminist Autoethnography in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day. Journal of International Women’s Studies1, 2022 [Scopus]
6. Priya, Parul and Anurag Kumar. Distressing Realities: A Comparative Study of Manish Jha’s Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women and Literary Voice 13.1, 2021. 251-256 [Web of Science]
7. Sharma, Bhushan and Anurag Kumar. Outsider-Within: The Sociological Significance of Dalit Women’s Life Narratives. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies5, 2021, 841-856 (Routledge, Social Science Citation Index)
8. Vats, Adishree and Anurag Kumar. Experiential Narratives: Contextualising Black Feminist Standpoint in Gloria Naylor’s Bailey’s Café. Literary Voice, 13.1. 2021. 156-169 [Web of Science]
9. Priya, Parul and Anurag Kumar. Social Acceptance and Section 377: A Case Study of Transgender People in Jammu City. Gender Studies 19 (1), 2020. 137-156 [Scopus]
10. Sharma, Bhushan and Anurag Kumar. Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Dalit Women’s Life Narratives. Journal of International Women’s Studies 21 (6), 2020. 25-37 [Scopus]
11. Priya, Parul and Anurag Kumar. Exclusion and articulation: Transgender counter-public in the Indian public sphere. Space and Culture, India 7 (4), 2020. 32-44 [Scopus]
12. Singh, Sakshi and Anurag Kumar. Sexual Violence in Indian Public Sphere: Counter-public Creation and Deferral. Space and Culture, India 6 (5), 2019. 8-28 [Scopus]
13. Singh, Sakshi and Anurag Kumar. Interrogating impunity through counterpublic: Rethinking habermas’s public sphere in Paulaumi Duttagupta’s Onaatah of the Earth. Media Watch 9 (3), 2018. 278-290 [Scopus]
14. Kumar, Anurag and Smita Jha. Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place: A Saga of Female Bonding. Journal of the African Literature Association 5 (1), 2016. 111-121 [Taylor and Francis]
15. Kumar, Anurag and Isha Malhotra. Communication and Diverse Workplaces: A Co-cultural Communication Perspective through Organizational Autoethnography. Academy of Marketing Studies Journal 5, 2022 [B Category]
16. Kumar, Anurag and Sudhir Kumar Pandey. Folk Drama as “Cultural Media”: Reading North Indian Nautanki. Indian Journal of English Studies 2012. 156-168 [UGC]
17. Kumar, Anurag and Monika Singh. Maternal Bonds: The Celebration of Black Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place. IUP Journal of American Literature 4 (3), 2011. 56-63 [UGC]
18. Kumar, Anurag and Smita Jha. From Margin to Centre: Reading Gloria Naylor’s Bailey’s Café. Language in India, 11 (10), 2011. 1-9 [UGC]
19. Kumar, Anurag and Nagendra Kumar. Images of Women in Hindi Dalit and African American Literature: A Cross Cultural Survey.IUP Journal of English Studies 5 (4), 2010. 66-74 [Scopus]

1. Kumar, Nagendra and Anurag Kumar. Communicating across Cultures: Issues and Strategies in Business Communication. Hunan Resource Management in a Global Context: A Critical Approach. New Delhi: Palgrave MacMillan. 2012. 57-67
2. Kumar, Anurag. Communicating Nonverbally across the Cultures. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Economics, Business Management and Marketing. Singapore. 2009. 294-398.

Books

Kumar, Anurag. African American Literature: Politics of Marginal Space in the Fiction of Gloria Naylor. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers. 2017

Chapters

1. Sharma, Bhushan and Anurag Kumar. Looking through the Glass of Dalit Feminism. Casting out the Caste: Akkarmashi the Outcaste, London: H P Hamilton Publishers. 2020. 101-112
2. Kumar, Anurag. Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place: Locating Black Feminist Standpoint in the Spatial Reality. Feminist Slants in Contemporary Writings. New Delhi: Atlantic Publisher. 2019
3. Kumar, Nagendra and Anurag Kumar. Perception of the Self: A Study of Bapsi Sidhwa’s The Pakistani Bride. Cabbages on the Bloom. New Delhi: Adhyayan Publishers. 2012. 229-237
4. Kumar, Anurag. Hindu Reformers in the Nineteenth Century. Religion and World Civilization (Ed. Andrew Holt). New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 2023
5. Kumar, Anurag. Kinnar in Ancient Indian Religious Texts. Religion and World Civilization (Ed. Andrew Holt). New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 2023
6. Kumar, Anurag. Origin and Early Influence of the Bhakti Movement. Religion and World Civilization (Ed. Andrew Holt). New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 2023
7. Kumar, Anurag. Indian Law Abolishes the “Untouchable” Class. Religion and World Civilization (Ed. Andrew Holt). New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 2023
8. Priya, Parul and Anurag Kumar. The quotidian revolution: vernacularization, religion, and the Premodern public sphere in India: by Christian Lee Novetzke, New York, Columbia University Press, 2016, 432 pp.,₹ 5,464 (Hardback) ISBN: 978-0-231-17580-7. Contemporary South Asia, 1-2, 2020 [Scopus]
9. Vats, Adishree and Anurag Kumar. Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity, by Joanne Chassot. The Black Scholar 48 (4), 81-84 [Scopus]
10. Kumar, Anurag. Reading Modern Day Academics: R. P. Singh’s The Flea Market and Other Plays. Indian Review. 2016

1. Priyanka Gupta

Title: Re-interpreting Partition from Feminist Perspective in Selected Partition Novels

2. Bhushan Sharma

Title: Locating Dalit Feminist Standpoint: Select Dalit Women’s Life Narratives as Testimonies

3. Sakshi Singh

Title: Mapping Sexual Violence against Women: Rethinking Indian Public Sphere through Select Novels

4. Komal Rakwal

Title: Human-Nature Affinities in Selected Indian Novels: An Ecocritical Perspective

5. Parul Priya

Title: Transgender Life Narratives: Interrogating Structural Inequalities and Creating Counterpublic

6. Adishree Vats

Title: Black Feminist Standpoint in Gloria Naylor: Mapping the Landscape of Social Inequalities

7. Surbhi Sharma

Title: Locating Black Feminist Standpoint in Autobiography: An Inquiry into the Experiences of Maya Angelou

8. Surbhi Badyal (on-going)

Title: Feminist Counterpublic and the Politics of Difference: A Study of the Select Dalit Women’s Life Narratives

9. Ananta Peshin (on-going)

Title: Reviving Memories through Cuisine: Tracing Historical Consciousness and Identity of Kashmiri Pandits

10. Muskan Gupta (on-going)

Title: Postmemory, Gender, and Space in Select Indian Partition Narratives