Faculty Details
Dr. Souvik Kar
Designation
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest/Specialisation
Literary Studies, World Literature, NuclearTechnologies, Artificial Intelligence, Speculative Fiction, Games Studies, EnvironmentalHumanities, Science and Technology Studies, Posthumanism, Postcolonial Studies, CulturalStudies, Bengali Literature
Total Years of Teaching Experience:
1 year
Google CV Link:
https://nalandauniv.edu.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CV_Dr.-Souvik-Kar.pdf
Name and details of Ph.D. Degree awarded Institution
Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, 2025.
Awards/Honours
Ratna Nandy Memorial Endowment Award, 2022 — Rotary Club of Calcutta, India Awarded by the Rotary Club of Calcutta, India, for ranking First in the graduating Master of Arts batch in the Department of English (2018-2020), Presidency University, Kolkata, India- Merit Certificate for University First Rank in English, 2020—Presidency University, Kolkata Awarded by Presidency University, India, for ranking First in the graduating Master of Artsbatch in the Department of English (2018-2020), Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
- UGC-NET Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), 2019.
- Best Paper Prize—4th National Interdisciplinary Conference, Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi, 2019, Awarded by Fortell: Journal of Teaching English Language and Literature
Best Peer-reviewed Publications (Best 05)
- Kar, Souvik, Roy, Dibyadyuti, and Bhattacharjee, Shuhita. ““Like Fiction, only considerably more dangerous”: South Asia, Nuclear Surveillance, and twenty-first century Indo-American Novels of Geopolitical Intrigue” Surveillance and Society24.1/2 (2026): 17-29.
- Kar, Souvik, Bhattacharjee, Shuhita, and Roy, Dibyadyuti. “Even God seems to have gone into hiding”: Hindu Nationalism, Indian Nuclear Scientists, and the Quest for the United States of India in Anushakthi Amma (2004).” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00856401.2025.2607250?mi=4ac919
- Kar, Souvik, “The Vanishing Curator: Decolonizing the museum in Studio Oleomingus’ A Museum of Dubious Splendors (2018).” Videogames: Lila/Maya, special issue of Marg, ed. Souvik Mukherjee, 76.3 (2025), pp. 38-47.
- Kar, Souvik, and Bhattacharjee, Shuhita. ““Ancestral Voices Prophesying War”: Investigating the Legacy ofthe 1947 Partition in the 21st- Century Indian Cultural Imagination of Nuclear War.” South Asian Review 45.1-2 (2023): 22-38. DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2023.2277969
- Kar, Souvik, and Bhattacharjee, Shuhita. “Atomic Priesthood(s) and the “Knowing Smirk” of the Wandering Jew in A Canticle for Leibowitz.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 26 Feb. 2025, pp. 1-5.https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2025.2467169
Books, Book Chapters, Edited Volumes, and Editorial Contributions
- Kar, Souvik. “Mytho-Nukes: The Indian Popular and the NuclearDebate.” Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon. Ed. GitanjaliChawla and Sangeeta Mittal. Routledge, 2022. 161-180.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003240945-12/mytho-nukes-indian-popular-nuclear-debate-souvik-kar - Kar, Souvik and Rizvi, Zahra. “The PlayfulPostcolonial: Culturing Videogames inIndia: Special Issue Editorial.” The PlayfulPostcolonial: Culturing Videogames inIndia, special issue of Press Start, ed.Souvik Kar and Zahra Rizvi, 10.2 (2024):
pp. i-iv. https://press-start.gla.ac.uk/index.php/press-start/article/view/354