Dr Vikram Kapur
Professor & Head School of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Email: vikram.kapur@snu.edu.in
My principal focus is creative writing (fiction and nonfiction). I have published three critically-acclaimed novels, Time Is a Fire, The Wages of Life and The Assassinations, as well as edited a well-known anthology of writing on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots entitled 1984: In Memory and Imagination. In ...
Research Overview
My principal focus is creative writing (fiction and nonfiction). I have published three critically-acclaimed novels, Time Is a Fire, The Wages of Life and The Assassinations, as well as edited a well-known anthology of writing on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots entitled 1984: In Memory and Imagination. In addition, I have published several short stories and pieces of nonfiction in publications in the United Kingdom, United States and India. These include, among others, World Literature Today, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mekong Review, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, The Hong Kong Review, Litro, Ambit, the Dublin Quarterly, New Writing, Driftwood, The Hindu, Frontline and Firstpost. A full list of publications is available on my website www.vikramkapur.com. My short fiction has been shortlisted or longlisted in a number of major international competitions including, among others, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (UK), the Fish International Short Story Prize (Ireland) and the Radiobooks Short Story Prize (Radio Netherlands World Service). I have received several prestigious scholarships and fellowships including, among others, the Vermont Studio Center fellowship (USA), the Canserrat Arts Center residency (Spain), the India-Africa bursary from the University of East Anglia (UK) and the Wesleyan scholarship (U.S.A.). I have been Visiting Writer or Writer-in-Residence at a number of universities including, most recently, IIT Madras, Asian College of Journalism and the University of Heidelberg in Germany. My experience has taught me that it is important to read as a writer and write as a reader. The creative and the critical are not mutually exclusive. Rather, they are complementary. It is not possible to excel in one while ignoring the other, which is the key lesson I wish to pass on to my students. In addition to creative writing, I also have interests in Crime Writing and Literature about the Two World Wars.
Education
PhD in creative and critical writing, School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, October 2004-July 2010. Master of Mass Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga, United States, March 1992 - June 1994. Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Armstrong State College (now Armstrong Atlantic State University), Savannah, Ga, United States, September 1988 - August 1991. Freshman year, Millsaps College, Jackson, Ms, United States, August 1987 - May 1988. Transferred to Armstrong at the end of the freshman year.
Experience
Professor, Department of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR Visiting Professor of Creative and Critical Writing, Asian College of Journalism Lecturer of Literature and Creative Writing, The Open University in the East of England Tutor, University of East Anglia Senior Instructor, Left to do Ph.D., Seattle Central Communuty College
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