Sathyaraj Venkatesan

Biography

Dr. Sathyaraj Venkatesan is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. He received Ph D from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. He was a Fellow at the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, New York and currently, an International Field Bibliographer with the Publications of Modern Language Association of America (PMLA). He is widely travelled including USA, UK, France, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand.His articles have appeared in SCI/Scopus indexed journals such as The Explicator, International Fiction Review, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) [forthcoming], Ariel: A Review of International English Literature [forthcoming]; MELUS, Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, AMULA, American Notes and Queries, Journal of Comics and Graphic Novels and also in a number of renowned publications including INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society (The Ohio State University Press), The London Film and Media Reader, IUP Journal of English Studies, Notes on Contemporary Literature, Facts on File Companion to American Literature, Encyclopedia of African American Women, among others.

Research Interest

Rhetorical function and affordances of images; the palpable tension between image and word; the cultural potency of images in the realm of graphic medicine; the implications of graphic medicine in medical science and literary studies; critical perspectives on medical practice; representation of illness and their imperatives; doctor-patient relationship; comics in the age of biopolitics; comics' negotiation and representation of medical ethics among others.