Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Gautama Polanki

Gautama Polanki

Associate Professor & Head

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


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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

  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.