Prof Pramod of UoH Nominated to Oxford University Press Project Advisory Board

Hyderabad: Prof Pramod K Nayar, Senior Professor in the Department of English, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH) has been invited to join the Advisory Board of the interdisciplinary academic publishing initiative from Oxford University Press (OUP) called Oxford Intersections.

OUP is the largest University Press in the world, and began publishing in 1478, a release here on Friday said.

Oxford Intersections is an online-only publishing project that provides access to large, interdisciplinary works organised around a complex, global topic. Each topic will contain around 300 peer-reviewed original research articles, all helpfully organised. The project seeks to bridge the gap between books and journal publishing. Among its topics are “AI in Society”, “Racism by Context”, “Environmental Change and Human Experience” and “Cultures of Waste”.

Pramod K Nayar is Senior Professor and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University of Hyderabad. He was Smuts Visiting Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2000-2001, the Charles Wallace India Trust-British Council Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury in the UK (2001) and a Fulbright Fellow at Cornell University in 2004-05.

He is a Fellow of the English Association and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2018 he received the Visitor’s Award for Best Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences from the President of India, which cited, in particular, his work on Human Rights & Literature, Bhopal and Dalit/subaltern Literature. He is also the only Indian university researcher in the field of Literary Studies among the top 2 per cent of most-cited researchers worldwide as per a study done by John PA Ioannidis of Stanford University.