International Health Humanities Network Membership

Dr. Sathyaraj Venkatesan is Associate 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 a Senior International Bibliographer with the Publications of Modern Language Association of America (PMLA). 

He is widely travelled including USA, UK, France, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, Srilanka, Taiwan. 

He is the author of The Idea and Practice of Reading (2018, Singapore; Springer)  with R. Joseph Ponniah, Edgar Allan Poe: Tales and Other Writings (2017, Orient BlackSwan), AIDS in Cultural Bodies: Scripting the Absent Subject (1980-2010) (2016, Cambridge Scholars Publishing) with Gokulnath Ammanathil and Mapping the Margins: A Study of Ethnic Feminist Consciousness in Toni Morrison’s Novels (2011). 

Presently, he is at work on three book projects: "India Retold" (contract under Bloomsbury/USA); "Gender, Eating Disorders and Graphic Medicine" (contract under Routledge/UK); "Travails of Motherhood: Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine" (contract under Routledge/UK).  

His articles have appeared in Web of Science/Scopus indexed journals such as Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Journal of Medical Humanities, American Medical Association Journal of Ethics (AMA), Health, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, World Literature Today (WLT), The Explicator, International Fiction Review, Journal of Creative Communications, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 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  London Film and Media Reader, Notes on Contemporary Literature among others.

His interview/article/profile is mentioned in media such as The Hindu, The New Indian Express, JoongAng Libo (South Korean), Malayala Manorama and Mathrubhoomi.