Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Gautama Polanki

Gautama Polanki

Associate Professor

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


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Reader-response Theory, Cognitive Poetics Narrative Theory, and Postmodernist Fiction

1996, B.Tech., Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 

2008, M.Phil., (English Literature) CIEFL, Hyderabad 

2013, Ph.D., (English Literature) EFL University, Hyderabad

07/21-Present

Associate Professor, Department of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR

07/14-06/21

Assistant Professor, Department of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR

08/13-04/14

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, IIIT Sri City

08/01-03/02

Senior Software Engineer, Lisle Technology Partners, Bangalore

10/96-07/00

Senior Systems Analyst, Infosys Technologies Ltd

  1. Gautama Polanki, “The Iterable Messiah: Postmodernist Mythopoeia in Cloud Atlas,” C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2018.
  2. Gautama Polanki, “Unwitting Interpreters: Some Cognitive Strategies Used by Readers of Fiction.” The EFL Journal 8.1, 2017.
  3. Gautama Polanki, “When Harry Met Darcy.” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 52, pp. 44-45, 2016.

  • Gautama Polanki, “Witch Hunts Need Witches.” The Hoot Reader: Media Practice in Twenty-first Century India, eds. Sevanti Ninan & Subarno Chattarji. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013.