C.S.BHAGYA

I'm a writer, editor, educator, and artist.

I received my DPhil in English from Merton College, University of Oxford (2021). I have MA and MPhil degrees in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi). I completed my BA in Psychology, English and Journalism at Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. 

​I was Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in English at the Division of English and Creative Writing at Brunel University of London from 2021-2024, and taught as a Tutor in English at the University of Oxford from 2017-2023. I have also taught at IIT Delhi and Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. My scholarship, research and poetry have received multiple awards, grants and recognition, such as the Clarendon-Merton English scholarship, the Brettschneider-Cornell University exchange grant, the Brunel University Vice Chancellor's Special Fund award, the PSA-JPW essay prize, and the Poetry with Prakriti prize.

In my scholarship, I specialise in postcolonial and world literatures, with a focus on representations of political crises, cities of the global south, cosmopolitanism and migration, speculative fiction, and literature and the Anthropocene. I have particular interests in political theory on states of exception and in the philosophy of temporality—especially how they both relate to modes of literary and visual representation. In my research on Indian literatures, I use comparative methods rooted in translation studies, particularly in my work on modernist and contemporary writing in English and Kannada.

In addition to teaching in my areas of research expertise, I have a growing interest in developing creative curricula for teaching narrative strategy and applied storytelling (grounded in literary and cultural studies perspectives) for technology, business, design, and entrepreneurship.

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I am co-convenor of The Postcolonial Anthropocene Research Network. ​I am also currently the editorial, publicity and communications manager at PR&TA literary journal.