Vijay Mishra

Biography

Vijay Mishra have held  the Chair (Professor) of English Literature at Murdoch University since 1998. For five years  (2010 -2015) He was  an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow as well.  For two years He was a tenured full Professor of English at the University of Alberta and have held Visiting Professorships/Fellowships at the University of Wales, the University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of Otago, Universitat des Saarlandes, University of Technology, Sydney,  and  the Australian National University. In  the Hilary 2013 Term  He  was the  Christensen Professorial Fellow at St Catherine’s College, Oxford University and in  the Spring 2015 Term I held the  Erich Auerbach  Visiting Chair of Global Literary Studies at Tuebingen University (Hegel, Holderlin  and Pope Benedcit XVI’s alma mater). He has published major books in literary and cultural studies. Among them are: Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind (1991,with Bob Hodge), The Gothic Sublime (1994), Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime (1998), Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire (2002), The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary (2007), What Was Multiculturalism? (2012). He has also published  a large number of journal articles and book chapters, as well as minor monographs and occasional papers. Google Scholar, with its tendency to be over inclusive, carries  some  3,000 citations of my works. he is a Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy (FAHA).  Having completed a large manuscript on Salman Rushdie, my next project is a book on V S Naipaul funded by an Australian Research Council  Discovery Grant (2017-2019). In his spare time I read Sanskrit, play the Indian harmonium and listen to western classical music. A product of the glorious sixties,he is a Beatles fan.

Research Interest

 LiteraryTheory and English Literary History,Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures, Gothic Literature, Australian Literature and Culture, Devotional Poetics, Bollywood Cinema and Film Theory, Critical Multiculturalism, East-West Comparative Literature and Aesthetics.