Prerana Kumar

Profile

Project Title: 'Trace' Cartographies: Dismantling South Indian Patriarchal Hierarchies Through A Queer, Anti-Caste Poetics.

Supervisors: Dr. Nisha Ramayya, Dr. Swati Arora

Previous Qualifications: 

MA UEA, Creative Writing

MA Durham, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature

BA Durham, English Literature

Teaching

I have taught on ‘London: Walking the City’ at QMUL and have creative writing workshop facilitation experience with various organisations outside of university context.

Research

Research Interests:

Poetry and poetics,

Creative writing,

Global South studies,

Black studies,

Feminist and queer theory,

More-than-human perspectives.

Publications

Creative Work:

Ixora, Guillemot Press (2023) the (mis)figurations of ‘shi, The Braag (forthcoming, 2027)

Other:

‘From the Desire Field’: The ‘More-than-Human’ Poetics of Shivanee Ramlochan and Natalie Diaz (forthcoming, Wasafiri, 2027)

Kumar P (2024) . Healing, (Re)turning, and Dreaming Towards Better Worlds . Wasafiri vol. 39 , ( 3 ) 170 - 174 .

10.1080/02690055.2024.2350176

https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/handle/123456789/122723

Kumar P . NOTES ON RITUAL AS HAUNTING // RITUAL AS HEALING . vol. 34 , University of Edinburgh 10.2218/forum.1.9150