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Postmodern Fiction, Archetypal and Myth Criticism, Kurt Vonnegut Studies, Comparative Literature, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Magic Realism, Posthumanism
India

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor of English with the Department of Higher Education, Haryana, India. I have a PhD in English from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, India. My research interests include Postmodern Fiction, Archetypal and Myth Criticism, Kurt Vonnegut Studies, Comparative Literature, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Magic Realism and Posthumanism.

Activities

Employment (3)

Government College Gharaunda: Gharaunda (Karnal), Haryana, IN

2021-08 to present | Assistant Professor (Department of English)
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Ankit Raj

Pt Chiranji Lal Sharma Government College, Karnal: Karnal, Haryana, IN

2019-09 to 2021-08 | Assistant Professor (Department of English)
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Infosys (India): Bhubaneswar, Odisha, IN

2014-06-30 to 2018-11-13 | Technology Analyst (MFGADM)
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Education and qualifications (1)

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee: Roorkee, Uttarakhand, IN

2018-12-27 to 2023-01 | PhD (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences)
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Professional activities (13)

The Kurt Vonnegut Society (American Literature Association): United States of America, US

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Muse India : Hyderabad, IN

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Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) : IIT Madras, IN

(Affiliated to Memory Studies Association (MSA), Amsterdam)
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Cogent OA: London, GB

2023-03-21 to present | Reviewer (Cogent Education, Routledge)
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Cogent OA: London, GB

2023-01-04 to present | Reviewer (Cogent Arts and Humanities, Routledge)
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The Explicator, Routledge: Philadelphia, US

2022-05-29 to present | Reviewer
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Northeast Modern Language Association: Buffalo, NY, US

2021-12-01 to present
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International Journal of English and Literature: Nigeria, NG

2021-10-21 to present | Reviewer
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Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN 2791-6553): Bingöl Üniversitesi, Bingöl, TR

2021-05-29 to present | Editorial Board Member and Reviewer
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Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN 2791-6553): Bingöl Üniversitesi, Bingöl, TR

2022-01 to 2022-08 | Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Myths, Archetypes and the Literary Arts"
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Irish Association for American Studies: Dublin, IE

2021-11-05 | Chair, Panel Two: Narratives of Entitlement, Exceptionalism, and Community, The IAAS Postgraduate Symposium – “The (Hi)stories We Create: Narratives of Exceptionalism, Ideology, and Resilience,” The Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS), Hosted by School of English, Trinity College Dublin
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Loughborough University: Loughborough, Leicestershire, GB

2021-09-16 | Chair, Panel Two: Indigeneity and Ecological Breakdown, Erasure and the Environment Conference
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British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS): United Kingdom, GB

2021-09-03 | Chair, Panel G1 Private/Public Spaces and Embodied Practices, BACLS-WHN Conference 2021
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Funding (1)

Junior Research Fellowship

2018-12 to 2019-08 | Grant
University Grants Commission (Delhi, IN)
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Works (19)

“Playing God, Are We?”: The Cosmogonic Concoction in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos

Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
2024-03-14 | Journal article
Contributors: Ankit Raj; Nagendra Kumar
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The Painter and the Muse: On Archetypes, Complexes and the Anti-Jungian Quest for Mother in Kurt Vonnegut's<i> Bluebeard</i>

Partial Answers
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Raj, Ankit; Kumar, Nagendra
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The Painter and the Muse: On Archetypes, Complexes and the Anti-Jungian Quest for Mother in Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas (Johns Hopkins University Press)
2023-06-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Ankit Raj
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Pinpricks: poems

Hawakal Publishers
2022-06 | Book
Contributors: Ankit Raj
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Ankit Raj

Dissecting the Doubtful Darwin: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanist Posthumanism in <i>Galápagos</i>

Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa (Taylor and Francis Group)
2022-03-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1812-5441
Part of ISSN: 1753-5409
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A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man: Kurt Vonnegut's Bluebeard as an Anti-Jungian Mother Quest

The 53rd Annual NeMLA Convention, organised by Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), co-sponsored by Johns Hopkins University and the University at Buffalo, at Baltimore, Maryland, USA (March 10-13, 2022)
2022-03-12 | Conference paper
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Ankit Raj

Finding “Bluebeard” in Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard

ANQ: Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews (Routledge)
2021 | Journal article
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The Devil with Many Faces: Reading Deviants as Tricksters in Kurt Vonnegut’s Fiction

The Eleventh "New Work in Modernist Studies" Conference, in conjunction with the Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, the Northern Modernism Seminar, the Midlands Modernist Network and the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS), United Kingdom
2021-12-10 | Conference paper
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Ankit Raj

Of War and Forgetting: Massacres, Memory, and the Trouble Retelling Trauma in Kurt Vonnegut's Fiction

Memory, Cognition, Literature Workshop, Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) in association with the Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras; Centre for Continuining Education (CCE) IIT Madras; and the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia University, November 9-12, 2021
2021-11 | Conference abstract
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Ankit Raj

Memory, Artifice and the Indian Oedipus in A.K. Ramanujan's 'Ecology'

Second South Asia Research Center International Conference on Memory and Past in South Asia, SOKA University, Tokyo, Japan
2021-11-27 | Conference paper
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Ankit Raj

“Trick or Treat!”: The Trickster Figure in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Slapstick

The Explicator
2021-11-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Ankit Raj; Nagendra Kumar
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A Hero for All Seasons?: Rethinking the Hero Quest Narrative in Kurt Vonnegut’s Postmodern Fiction

The IAAS Postgraduate Symposium – "The (Hi)stories We Create: Narratives of Exceptionalism, Ideology, and Resilience," The Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS), Hosted by School of English, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
2021-11-05 | Conference paper
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Ankit Raj

‘Surely the Second Coming is at hand’: Hero Quest, Cosmogony and the Rebirth Myth in Kurt Vonnegut’s Fiction

ALA Symposium "Rebirth Renewal Renaissance", American Literature Association, New Orleans, LA, USA (Cancelled due to Hurricane Ida)
2021-09 | Conference abstract
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And Pastures New: Ecology, Cosmogony and Post-Anthropocene Utopia in Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos

Erasure and the Environment Conference, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
2021-09-17 | Conference paper
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Ankit Raj

Sermons on Joint: Bob Marley, Bokonon and the Religio-lyrical Affair with State Apparatuses

BACLS-WHN Conference 2021, British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS), United Kingdom
2021-09-02 | Conference paper
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Ankit Raj

Food, Memory, Identity and the Female Hero Quest in Laura Esquivel's Como agua para chocolate

Food, Memory, Machines Workshop, Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) in association with Centre for Memory Studies and Office of Global Engagement, IIT Madras, India
2021-08-20 | Conference paper
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Ankit Raj

Future Perfect: Post-human Ecology in Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos

National Conference on Ecological Humanities: Recent Paradigms, National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand, India
2021-03-06 | Conference paper
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Ankit Raj

Filial Relationships in a Globalized World: Girish Karnad's Wedding Album

Kalā: The Journal of Indian Art History Congress (Listed in UGC-CARE)
2020 | Journal article
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Ankit Raj

The Hero at a Thousand Places: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five as Anti-Monomyth

Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (Routledge)
2020-08-04 | Journal article
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Ankit Raj
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Peer review (23 reviews for 5 publications/grants)

Review activity for Cogent arts & humanities. (12)
Review activity for Cogent education. (3)
Review activity for Cogent social sciences. (1)
Review activity for Social identities. (1)
Review activity for The Explicator. (6)