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S. Satish Kumar

Visiting Faculty of English, Ashoka University

Ph.D. University of Georgia
s.kumar@ashoka.edu.in
S. Satish Kumar holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies from the University of Georgia, where they also served as a part-time instructor for the Institute of African American Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies. Kumar received their M.Phil and M.A. degrees in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University and taught there as a guest instructor in the Centre for Studies in African Literatures and Cultures.
They are the author of Counterpoints in Fractal Modernities: Essays in Plural Postcolonialities (2025), published with Peter Lang. Identifying the colonial as an overarching systemic force that continues to shape our lives and worlds, their book thinks through decolonization as a striving towards dignity, security, and equity across categories of identity, experience, and knowledge.
Books Written
Counterpoints in Fractal Modernities: Essays in Plural Postcolonialities, Peter Lang: 2025 (ISBN: 9781803748436)

Locating the Postcolonial Feminine (MA)
At the Margins of Care and Love (Undergraduate Elective)
Introduction to Literary Theory: Thinking in Theory (BA)
Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures: Decolonizing the Postcolonial (BA)
Introduction to African American Studies: Antiracist Thought (Undergraduate Elective)
Studies in World Literature: Myth, Literature, and the African World (Undergraduate Elective)
Prejudice, Pride and Bigotry (Undergraduate Elective)
African Modernities: The Postcolonial African Novel (Undergraduate/Masters Elective)
Great Books (Undergraduate Foundation Course)
Literature and the World (Undergraduate Foundation Course)

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