Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Gautama Polanki
Associate Professor & Head
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Contact Information
- Email: [email protected]
- Number: 285
Reader-response Theory, Cognitive Poetics Narrative Theory, and Postmodernist Fiction
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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
- Gautama Polanki, “The Iterable Messiah: Postmodernist Mythopoeia in Cloud Atlas,” C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2018.
- Gautama Polanki, “Unwitting Interpreters: Some Cognitive Strategies Used by Readers of Fiction.” The EFL Journal 8.1, 2017.
- 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.