Assistant Professor, Literary & Cultural Studies at FLAME University, India
Kaushik Ramu is Assistant Professor - Literary and Cultural Studies at FLAME University. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature & Critical Theory from The University of Pennsylvania, USA, where he was a Mellon Fellow, a Benjamin Franklin Fellow, and a Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities Fellow, after which he taught at Colorado College. His interests span World Literature, Literary Theory, Modernism, Indian Aesthetics, and the Environmental Humanities. His current book-project dwells on anachronism in South Asian and South African fiction from the long twentieth century, and on how literary performances of slowness, naïveté, and aphasia can speak to critical ideas of agency. Earlier, Kaushik studied business at IIM Bangalore, worked in enterprise sales and global outsourcing, and experimented with small-scale projects concerned with education for sustainability.