Pramod K. Nayar holds the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University of Hyderabad, where he teaches in the Department of English. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the English Association, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Sahitya Akademi. His books from Viva include An Introduction to Cultural Studies (2008) and From Text to Theory (2017). His most recent books include Nuclear Cultures (2023), Life/Writing (2023), Alzheimer’s Disease Memoirs (2022), The Human Rights Graphic Novel (2021), Essays in Celebrity Culture (2021), Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire (2020), Ecoprecarity (2019), besides the edited collections, From Discovery to the Civilisational Mission: English Writings on India (6 Volumes, 2022) and Colonial Education and India 1781-1945 (5 Volumes, 2019). His essays have appeared in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, Ariel, Studies in Travel Writing, Prose Studies, Celebrity Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and also in anthologies on posthumanism, celebrity culture, environmental humanities.
