Episode Synopsis "Illness as Defamiliarization: A Reading of Virginia Woolf's "On Being Ill" by Avishek Parui, IIT-Madras"

Avishek Parui (PhD, Durham, UK) is Assistant Professor in English at IIT Madras and Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. His research interests include Memory Studies, Masculinity Studies, and Medical Humanities. He is the author of Postmodern Literatures (Orient Blackswan, 2018) and is currently contracted with Rowman & Littlefield for his second book titled Culture and the Literary: Matter, Metaphor, Memory.

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