Revolution, Public Sphere and the Republic of Letters in late Eighteenth Century British literature, History of Ideas in the Eighteenth Century, Gender and Writing, Memoir, Autobiography and Life Writing, Indian Writing in English: Women Novelists, Visual Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century

Nineteenth and twentieth century American fiction and poetry, American and Vietnamese representations of the Vietnam/American War and its aftermath., The Vietnamese refugee and immigrant experience in America, Holocaust education in India.

Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Cosmopolitanism, Globalisation Studies, Twentieth Century Novel and Poetry, Dalit literature, Indian Literature in English Translation, Literary Gerontology, Urban Cultures

Indian Literary Theory and Criticism, South Asian Literatures, Translation Studies, Digital Humanities, Theory of Emotions

His early work was on insurgency in 19 century India; an interest revived in his new research on the transnational Salafi. Along the way, he published work on Bankim Chandra Chatterji and Jibanananda Das. His interests range otherwise between satirical traditions, analytic philosophy and some precise aspects of Indian thought. He also led the Centre for Translation and Archiving at the Department for some years.

Theoretical Linguistics; Syntax and Semantics; Language
Ideology, Language Policy and Language Politics; Marginalized Languages, Linguistic
Identity, and Social Justice

Early Modern Literature and Culture, Political Philosophy, Heresy Studies, Literary Theory

Shakespeare Studies, Feminist Studies, Folk Tales

American Drama, Black (Afro-American) Literature, Indian Writing in English, English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics.

Jewish American Literature, Ancient Indian Literature, Communication Language Teaching, Intersectionality, Literary Theory and Criticism, Partition Literature, Hindu Studies, Comparative Ancient Indian and Western Literature

Hindu Dharma, Sikkhī Cosmology, Medical Humanities, Public Humanities, Security Narratives and Popular Discourse, Digital Geopolitics, Automation Anxiety and Refusal, Legal Rhetoric, Neuroanthropology of Bharat’s Partition

Indian English Literature, Language Studies, Indian Mythology, Folklore Studies, Disability Studies

Indic Studies, Media Studies, Partition Literature, Cultural Marxism, Tribal Studies

Shakespeare Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Contemporary Indian Tribal Writings, Bhakti Literature

Indian and other Classical Literatures, Film and Visual Studies, Indian Knowledge System, Language and Linguistics, Translation Studies, English Language Teaching, Literary Theories and Aesthetics, 20th Century British Literature, Dalit Literature.

Decolonial studies, Northeast India studies, Studies in Oral cultures/traditions, Peace and Conflict studies, Biblical narratives/studies.

African Literature and Tibetan Literature

South Asian Writings in English, Refugee Narratives, British Poetry and Fiction, Literatures and Cultures of South Asian Muslims, Writings by Indian Muslim Women, Postcolonial Literature, Translations, Hindi/Urdu Literature, Progressive Writers’ Movement

Indian Writing in English

Kamala Das Studies, Indian Poetry in English, Global Literature, Theories of the Diaspora, Cosmopolitanism and Third Space/Culture, Film Criticism, Environmental Humanities

Gender Studies, Women Writing, Indian Literatures in English and Translation, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Nationalism, Social Movements, Decoloniality

Cultural Studies, Postmodern Literature, Performance Studies, Autopathography and Biofiction, Literary Theory and Criticism

Narratives, Mythology, Existentialism Literature, Theatre Arts, Hindu Literature, Modern Indian Literature