Narrativizing Protest Suicide

Suman Gupta is Professor and Chair in Literature and Cultural History at the Open University, UK, and currently a Visiting Fellow at the Department of English, University of Delhi. He completed his BA, MA, and MPhil from the University of Delhi, before going to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar for his DPhil. He is the author of a dozen books including Contemporary Texts in Contemporary India: Uncultured Books and Bibliographical Sociology (2015), Imagining Iraq: Literature in English and the Iraq Invasion (2011), Globalization and Literature (2009), Theory and Reality of Democracy: a case study in Iraq (2006), Re-reading Harry Potter (2003), and The Replication of Violence: thoughts on international terrorism after September 11 2001 (2002). In addition he has co-authored and edited/co-edited several books including most recently Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education: Neoliberal Policies of Funding and Management (2016) and Reconsidering English Studies in Indian Higher Education (2015). He has published on a wide range of subjects in a host of journals from Wasafiri to Babel to Economic and Political Weekly and Third Text. His numerous research projects include “Framing Financial Crisis and Protest: NW and SE Europe” (funded by the Leverhume Trust) and “Prospects for English Studies: India and Britain Compared” (funded by the AHRC, UK).