Faculty Details
DR. SAURAV KUMAR
Designation
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest/Specialisation
Literary and Cultural Gerontology, Narrative Gerontology, Aging and Films, Indian Writing in English, Bhasha Literatures in Translation, Body Studies, Intersectionality, Narrative Medicine, Disability Studies, Material Culture Studies, Transcultural Humanities, Vegan Studies
Year of Joining at NU
2026
Total Years of Teaching Experience:
4 Years and 6 Months
Name and details of Ph.D. Degree awarded Institution
Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 2021.
Awards/Honours
UGC-NET Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), 2018.
Best Peer-reviewed Publications (Best 05)
- Kumar, Saurav. “Where Famine is Life: A Study of the Select Karisal Short Stories.” Spectre of Scarcity and Hunger: Indian Literature and the Idea of Famine. Eds. Shubhanku Kochar and Shehnaz Kabir. Routledge, 2026. doi: 10.4324/9781003665687-18
- Kumar, Saurav. “Reformative Aspect of Bhasha Literatures and Aging in India: Old Age, Body and Locale in Hindi Short Stories.” The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature. Ed. Michael Bryson. Routledge, 2022, pp. 114-123. doi: 10.4324/9781003046004-11 (Indexed in Web of Science)
- Kumar, Saurav. “‘No Country for Old Women’: Female Aging in Bollywood.” Indian Journal of Gender Studies (SAGE), vol. 29, no. 3, October 2022, pp. 335-352. doi: 10.1177/09715215221111137 (Indexed in Scopus and Web of Science)
- Kumar, Saurav. “Experiences of Old Age in Indian Fiction: A Study of Two Indian Short Stories.” The Gerontologist (Oxford University Press), vol. 62, no. 3, April 2022, pp. 445-451. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnab114 (Indexed in Scopus and Web of Science)
- Kumar, Saurav. “Veganism, Hinduism, and Jainism in India: A Geo-cultural Inquiry.” The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies. Ed. Laura Wright. Routledge, 2021, pp. 205-214. doi: 10.4324/9781003020875-21 (Indexed in Scopus)