S. Satish Kumar is Visiting Faculty in the Department of English at Ashoka University. With a PhD in Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies from the University of Georgia, they bring a strong interdisciplinary and transnational lens to the field of comparative literary studies. Kumar has also served as part-time instructor for both the Institute of African American Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at Georgia, contributing to curriculum and pedagogy that emphasize race, power, and global equity. Their academic training is grounded in the rich histories of Comparative Literature in India, having received both M.A. and M.Phil. degrees from Jadavpur University.

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At Jadavpur, Kumar taught in the Centre for Studies in African Literatures and Cultures, underlining their long-standing engagement with Afro-Asian solidarities, subaltern knowledges, and anti-colonial thought.

 

Their first book, Counterpoints in Fractal Modernities: Essays in Plural Postcolonialities (2025), published by Peter Lang, explores the ongoing operations of colonial systems and argues for a comparative literary praxis grounded in dignity, security, and epistemic justice across lines of identity and experience. Kumar’s work invites us to reimagine Comparative Literature as a deeply political and ethical commitment, attuned to the realities of the "Global Souths".

 

They are one of the founding members of Comparatists in Conversation.