Avishek Parui

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Avishek Parui is an Assistant Professor in English at IIT Madras and Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He is also the founding chairperson of the Indian Network for Memory Studies and the Principal Investigator of the Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras.

 

Publications:

  1. The wakefulness was always beside me’: Sleeplessness, Embodiment, and Female Agency in Haruki Murakami’s ‘Sleep’. Special Issue on Health Humanities. Journal of Media Watch. Impact factor – 0.04.
  2.  ‘These were made-to-order babies’: Reterritorialised Kinship, Neoliberal Eugenics, and Artificial Reproductive Technology in Kishwar Desai’s Origins of Love. Journal of Medical Humanities. British Medical Journal (BMJ) 24 May 2019. Impact Factor 0.67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2018-011522
  3. “Victor’s Progeny: Premonition of a Bioengineered Age”. Literature and Medicine. Johns Hopkins University Press, Volume 36, Number 2, Fall 2018. pp. 337-355.
    https://muse.jhu.edu/article/714820doi:10.1353/lm.2018.0017 Impact Factor 0.15
  4. ‘“What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?” Agency, Fabulation, and the Epistemology of the Storytelling Self in Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories.’ Special issue on Salman Rushdie in South Asian Review (2017).
    doi:10.1080/02759527.2014.11932954 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02759527.2014.11932954
  5. ‘For the life of him he could not remember’: Post-War Memory, Mourning and Masculinity Crisis in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘The Fly’. Katherine Mansfield Studies. Vol. 8. Special Issue on Mansfield and Psychology, Edinburgh University Press ed. Clare Hanson (September 2016): 113-124. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417532.003.0009

Areas of Interest:

Memory Studies, Posthumanism, Masculinity Studies, Critical Theory

Statement of Interest:

I am interested in examining the embedded as well as the enactive modes of corporeality and cognition and to this end studying the human-machinic interfaces for more complex understandings of empathy, embodiment, re-membering, and storytelling, through the lenses of literature, cognitive theory, and philosophy.