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Publications

  • Kumar, Abiral. “World Literary Souths: The Minor Alien in ‘Otherworld Literature’” in Cambridge Companion to the Literatures of the Global South, ed. Pavan Malreddy, Lars Eckstein, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. 
  • Malreddy, P.K, Abiral Kumar. “Water, Oil Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink or Fry: Ecology and Violence in Sarnath Banerjee’s All Quiet in Vikaspuri and Christie Watson’s Tiny Sunbirds Far Away” in Ecoterrorism in Anglophone Media, ed. Burak Sezer and Sascha Pöhlmann, Anglia Book Series, forthcoming. 
  • Kumar, Abiral. “Dismembered Histories and Remembered Tales: The Case of Intizar Husain’s Post-Partition Dastan” in Beyond Human Divide: Revisiting the Partition of India. Eds. Maitreyee Mandal, Kanchan Verma. Shivalik Prakashan, Delhi, 2025, pp. 1-10. 
  • Kumar, Abiral. "The Formality of Form: Reading Ghazal as a Contact Zone." Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium, Vol. 8. No. 1. 2023, pp. 10-27.
  • Kumar, Abiral. “(Un)Scripting Hindustani: The Special Case of Hindi-Urdu Audiobook" in Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India. Eds. Nishat Zaidi, et al. Delhi: Routledge, 2022, pp 225-243. 
  • Kumar, Abiral. "Implications of Ramayana in Indo-Tibetan Interactions: A Study" in བོད་ ་◌ི ' དི ་ (ས་ ཉམས་ ཞིབ་ -ས་ དེབ། Tibet Policy Journal 5.2, Dharamshala, 2018, pp. 42-53. 

 

RESEARCH GRANTS 

● akademische Forschungstätigkeiten (PhD Fellow), RTG minor cosmopolitanisms (DFG funded), University of Potsdam, € 100.635,40, 2022-2025. 

● Travel Grant for Outreach Projects (a) Graphic novel: Travelling Through Tilisms (b) Documentary film: Tilism-e Jahan, RTG minor cosmopolitanisms (DFG funded), University of Potsdam, € 1.100, 2024-2025.   

● Exchange Student to University of Potsdam, Writing the Cosmopolitan Imagination, funded by University Grants Commission, India, € 4.800, 01.04.2019- 30.09.2019.