Dr MITHILESH KUMAR
MA, MPhil, PhD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MA, MPhil, PhD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Articles in Periodicals
| Sl.No. | Title | Name of Periodical | Periodicity | Date |
| 1 | The Contagion of Government | Cafe Dissensus Everyday | Daily | 07/11/2020 |
| 2 | Where is the Platform Campus of the University | Cafe Dissensus Everyday | Other | 19/05/2020 |
Articles in Journals
| Sl.No. | Title | Name of Journal / Vol. No. / Issue No. / Page Nos | ISSN No. | Date Published |
| 1 | Footloose Culture: Migrant Workers and Cultural Meanings of Labour | Society and Culture in South Asia / 10 / 2 / 161 - 176 | 2393-8617 | 19-Aug-2024 |
| 2 | Dirty Tracks Across the Border: Global Operations of Extraction, Labour and Migration at a Railway Station on the Bihar?Nepal Border | Society and Culture in South Asia / Online First / Online First / - | 2393-8617 | 05-Jun-2024 |
| 3 | The Un-Human Beings: The Denial of Muslim Migrants- Bodies in India and Poland | Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies / / / - | 1369-801X | 19-Jul-2022 |
| 4 | Before the Gig Economy Tracing the Transformations in Delhi?s Taxi Industry | Economic and Political Weekly / 57 / 12 / 54 - 60 | 0012-9976 | 19-Mar-2022 |
| 5 | Political Theory at Large: How Migrants Shaped the Discourse and Practice of Colonial States.? | Economic and Political Weekly / 54 / 26-27 / 30 - 31 | 0012-9976 | 29-Jun-2019 |
Books/ Book Chapter/Case Study
| Sl.No. | Title | Author Names(s) | ISBN No. | Month Year |
| 1 | Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century | JEHOSON JIRESH J (3712) | 978-981-16-9859-0 | / |
Participation in Seminars/Conferences/Symposium
| Sl.No. | Name of the Conference /Seminar /Symposium | Type of Program | Title of the Article | Role | Venue/Place | Date |
| 1 | Migration Studies in Peninsular India. | Conference | Organizer) | Christ UniversityBengaluru | 28/08/2025 | |
| 2 | International Conference On Labouring Bodies in South Asian Films and Filmmaking: From Beginning to Now. | Conference | ?The machine of cinema and the entangled body of the worker? | Presenter) | Christ UniversityBengaluru | 19/06/2025 |
| 3 | International Conference On Labouring Bodies in South Asian Films and Filmmaking: From Beginning to Now. | Conference | Convenor) | Christ UniversityBengaluru | 19/06/2025 | |
| 4 | Online International Workshop on ?Conceptualizing Asian Commons?. | Conference | Commoning a Discipline: Asian Cultural Studies or Cultural Studies in Asia? | Presenter) | Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hong Kong Shue Yan University; The Commoning Asia Collective and The Cultural Studies Cell, School of Arts and Humanities, Christ University, Bengaluru, Online | 22/06/2024 |
| 5 | Online International Workshop on ?Conceptualizing Asian Commons?. | Conference | Organizer) | Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hong Kong Shue Yan University; The Commoning Asia Collective and The Cultural Studies Cell, School of Arts and Humanities, Christ University, Bengaluru, Online | 22/06/2024 | |
| 6 | International Conference on "(Art)ificial Intelligence and the Problems of Language, Thinking, and Writing: Interrogations to Jacques Derrida" | Conference | Convenor) | Tattva Journal of Philosophy with Department of English and Cultural Studies CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru And Panihati Mahavidyalaya, KolkataKolkata | 14/01/2024 | |
| 7 | International Conference on "(Art)ificial Intelligence and the Problems of Language, Thinking, and Writing: Interrogations to Jacques Derrida" | Conference | Convenor) | Tattva Journal of Philosophy with Department of English and Cultural Studies CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru And Panihati Mahavidyalaya, KolkatKolkata | 14/12/2023 | |
| 8 | Asian Commons: Shared Experiences and Open Future | Symposium | Asian Commons as a Decolonial Strategy | Presenter) | Centre for Social Studies, Surat; Department of English and Cultural Studies; Western Reginal Centre, ICSSR, MumbaiSurat | 31/07/2023 |
| 9 | International Symposium on Asian Commons: Shared Experiences and Open Future | Symposium | Convenor) | Centre for Social Studies, Surat; Department of English and Cultural Studies, Christ University, Bengaluru, and Western Regional Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research, MumbaiSurat | 31/07/2023 | |
| 10 | 2nd Biennial Conference of the Indian Association for South Asian Studies (IASAS) on Global South Asians: Transformative Experiences | Conference | A Case for South Asian Cultural Studies: Disciplinary Interventions in Uncertain Times | Presenter) | Banaras Hindu UniversityVaranasi | 15/11/2022 |
| 11 | An International Conference on Migrant Workers, Cultural (Re)Production, and the Culture Industry in South Asia | Conference | Convenor) | The Cultural Studies Cell, Christ University and Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, AssamTezpur University, Assam | 17/10/2022 | |
| 12 | What?s happening to cultural studies? | Conference | Commoning a Discipline: Asian Cultural Studies or Cultural Studies in Asia? | Presenter) | Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories (CMNH), University of BrightonOnline | 14/09/2022 |
| 13 | 5th International Conference on English Language and Literary Studies: Reclaiming Normalcy, | Conference | Can Europe Decolonize-A View from Postcolonial South Asia | Presenter) | University of Banja LukaOnline | 09/09/2022 |
| 14 | Multiple Decolonialities and the Making of Asian Commons | Conference | Organizer) | Hong Kong Research Hub, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Department of English and Cultural Studies, Central Campus, Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, IndiaOnline | 11/02/2022 | |
| 15 | New Populism and Responses of the 21st Century | Conference | Convenor) | Christ UniversityOnline | 24/09/2021 | |
| 16 | New Populism and Responses of the 21st Century | Conference | Moderator/Chair) | Christ UniversityOnline | 24/09/2021 | |
| 17 | Interventions from the South: Theoretical Perspectives and Pragmatic Issues of Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic | Seminar | Moderator/Chair) | International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS), National Chiao Tung University, TaiwanOnline | 13/01/2021 | |
| 18 | The 20th Nordic Migration Research Conference and the 17th ETMU Conference | Conference | Gendered anti-immigrant mobilisations in Poland and India | Presenter) | University of HelsinkiHelsinki, Finland. | 11/01/2021 |
| 19 | Conjunctural Geographies of Postsocialist and Postcolonial Conditions: Theory Thirty Years after 1989 | Conference | Organizer) | Leipzig Institute for Regional Geography; Supported by: Leibniz ScienceCampus Eastern Europe?Global Area (EEGA)Online | 14/05/2020 | |
| 20 | National Symposium on Dissent | Symposium | Dissenting Political Subject as a Citizen: An Overture to Rethinking Nation and its People | Presenter) | Christ UniversityBengaluru | 24/01/2020 |
Invited Talks
| Sl.No. | Titel of the Program | Name of the Program | Date | Name of the Institution |
| 1 | Refugee Rights and Issues of Migration in India | State Meeting HRLN Kolkata Unit | 12/12/2020 | Human Rights Law Network |
MPhil/PhD Guided/Adjudicated
| Sl.No. | Title | Name of Student | Institution | Role | Status | Month Year |
| 1 | The Many Memories from a Conflict Zone: A Study on the Sites of Memory in Bastar | T F CALVIN | Christ University | Supervisor | Ongoing | January 2022 |
| 2 | The Transnational Influence of Energy on Cultural Practices: A Study on Kuttanad Wetland Systems | BRIJI JOSE | Christ University | Supervisor | Awarded | October 2024 |
| 3 | To study the central cause of the caste based hereditary occupation, known as manual scavenging; its effects on the lives of the lower castes, and how the laws of the government are benefiting them. | MEHNAZ ALAM | Christ University | Supervisor | Ongoing | July 2022 |
| 4 | Voicing the Unheard: Interpreting the insurgency experience of the Mizo community as portrayed in Malsawmi Jacobs Zorami | MERLENE BINNY | Christ University | Supervisor | Ongoing | July 2022 |
| 5 | Freedom to Slip Out and In: Resistance and the Nonhuman in Franz Kafka. | KAMDA SINGH DEO | Christ University | Supervisor | Ongoing | October 2022 |
| 6 | The Multidimensional Spaces of the Land: A Study on the Dynamic Relationship between Resistance and Land in Malayalam Dalit Literature | MEGHA ELIZABETH RAJU | Christ University | Supervisor | Ongoing | February 2023 |
| 7 | SEASONING THE FOOD NARRATIVES: EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEMORY AND CULINARY ARTEFACTS IN MUZIRIS | ANN ROSE DAVIS | Christ University | Supervisor | Ongoing | July 2023 |
| 8 | PERFORMING MALAYALI IDENTITIES ON YOUTUBE: A STUDY OF RAP MUSIC OF KERALA | RUTH SUSAN MATHEW | Christ University | Supervisor | ||
| 9 | . | MARIA MICHAEL | Christ University | Supervisor | Ongoing | July 2025 |
Research Project
| Sl.No. | Name of the Research Project | Investigator(s) | Sponsors | Internal/External |
| 1 | International Conference on ?Entanglements of Philosophy and Poetry: Contemporary Positions.? | MITHILESH KUMAR | External |
Workshop/FDP/Training programme
| Sl.No. | Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training programme | Name of Organiser | Level | Role | Date |
| 1 | Creative Nonfiction: Write Truth with Style | Coursera, Skillshare | International | Participant | 15/09/2025 |
| 2 | Faculty Development Programme 2025 | Human Resource Development Centre, | Institutional | Participant | 19/05/2025 |
| 3 | Google Prompting Essentials | Coursera, Google | International | Participant | 16/04/2025 |
| 4 | Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age. | The Open University, UK, The Open University, UK | International | Participant | 15/04/2025 |
| 5 | Workshops on DEMOCRACY and ETHICS. | Christ University, | Institutional | Invited Resource Person/Trainer | 01/02/2025 |
| 6 | Generative AI for University Leaders | Coursera, Vanderbilt University | International | Participant | 01/01/2025 |
| 7 | Reasoning Across the Disciplines | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Coursera), | International | Participant | 11/07/2024 |
| 8 | One Day Capacity Building Workshop on Enhancing Excellence | Department of English and Cultural Studies, | Institutional | Participant | 03/07/2024 |
| 9 | Academic Writing Workshop | Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology D | Institutional | Invited Resource Person/Trainer | 13/10/2023 |
| 10 | Faculty Development Programme (FDP-I) 2023 | Centre for Education Beyond Curriculum (CEDBEC), | Institutional | Participant | 26/06/2023 |
| 11 | FDP on Design Thinking | Christ University in association with Binghamton University, USA, | Institutional | Participant | 12/12/2022 |
| 12 | 5 day Faculty Development Program on Curriculum Design and Revision with specific focus on OBE | Staff Development College, Christ University, Bengaluru, | Institutional | Participant | 05/12/2022 |
| 13 | FDP- I 2022 | CEDBEC and IQAC, | Institutional | Participant | 06/07/2022 |
| 14 | Flagship Training Program for the 6th Cohort | IC 3 Institutes and Department of Psychology, Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, IC 3 Institutes and Department of Psychology, Chri | National | Presenter | 31/01/2022 |
| 15 | UGC sponsored Refresher Course ? English | Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University | Invited Resource Person/Trainer | 10/11/2021 | |
| 16 | UGC sponsored Refresher Course ? English | Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University | Invited Resource Person/Trainer | 10/11/2021 | |
| 17 | Quality Improvement Programme on Emerging Trends in English Language and Teaching | School of English Language, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus - ?The Hub of Analytics.?, | Invited Resource Person/Trainer | 28/06/2021 | |
| 18 | Faculty Development Programme I- 2021 | Centre for Education Beyond Curriculum (CEDBEC) and Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC) , | Institutional | Participant | 16/06/2021 |
| 19 | University Teaching | The University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong | International | Participant | 01/06/2021 |
| 20 | Hybrid Teaching | , | Participant | 02/03/2021 | |
| 21 | Managing Research Overload | Wiley Publications, Wiley Publications | International | Participant | 02/02/2021 |
| 22 | Moral Foundation of Politics | Yale, Yale | International | Participant | 25/05/2020 |
| 23 | Introduction to Big Data | University of California San Diego, University of California San Diego | International | Participant | 01/05/2020 |
| 24 | Learning to Teach Online | University of New South Wales, | International | Participant | 20/04/2020 |
| 25 | Fourth Orientation Course on Migration | Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Patna Centre, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Patna Centre | International | Invited Resource Person/Trainer | 19/02/2020 |
| 26 | 5-Day Orientation Program | Academic Staff College, | Participant | 06/01/2020 | |
| 27 | India-UK Socio-Legal Research Writing | Chanakya National Law University, Chanakya National Law University | International | Invited Resource Person/Trainer | 01/10/2019 |
| 28 | CPPR Global Policy School | Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR), Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) | International | Participant | 01/05/2019 |