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Dr. Prashant

Assistant Professor

Centre for Communication and Critical Thinking

Institute of Management

Biography

Prashant is Assistant Professor at JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, and holds a Master’s degree in English and American Literature from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His diverse research interests span Buddhist studies, eroticism, Latin American literature, modern fiction and poetry, mysticism, and phenomenology.

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 2024

    PhD

    Focus: Modernism and Latin American Literature (Thesis Title: Trace(s) of the Holy: Analogical Mysticism in Borges and Paz)

  • Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 2018

    MA

    Major: English and American Literature

  • 20th Century Literature: Modernism and Postmodernism
  • Buddhism
  • Continental Philosophy
  • Eroticism
  • Latin American Studies
  • Modern Fiction and Poetry
  • Mysticism and Theology
  • Phenomenology
  • Posthumanism, Posthumanist Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Technology
  • Tantra (Buddhist and Hindu)

  • Mishra, Prashant (2024), “Eroticism and the Loss of Imagination in the Modern Condition”, Journal for Cultural Research, December, 1–16. doi:10.1080/14797585.2024.2408359.
  • Mishra, Prashant (2025), “Mathematics”, in Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism (pp. 243-244). Bloomsbury. Link.
  • Mishra, Prashant. 2021. “Theatre Theory and Performance: A Critical Introduction: Siddhartha Biswas.” Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry 6 (1): 112–15. Link.
  • Sharma, Shivani, and Mishra, Prashant. 2022. “Unknown Voices: From Marginalized Linguistic Narratives.” The Book Review 46 (2). Link.

  • Mishra, Prashant, “Being is Eroticism: Octavio Paz’s Carnal Ontological Poetics”, American Comparative Literature Association (MLA), May 29-June 1, 2025. (Accepted)
  • Mishra, Prashant, “Paz Against Bataille: Eroticism as Violence/Imagination,” in Bataille Now: A transdisciplinary conference on the contemporary application of Georges Bataille’s thought, Athens, Greece, Sept. 21-23, 2023.
  • Mishra, Prashant, “Souvenirs from the Future: The Subtracting Aesthetics of Time-travel in Borges,” in the Modernist Studies of Asia (MSIA 2023), Virtual, Online, Feb. 3, 2023.
  • Mishra, Prashant, “Arriving at the Present: The Non-Essentialist Poetics of Paz”, in the 5th Australasian Modernist Studies Network (AMSN 2022), Auckland, New Zealand, Nov. 12-14, 2022.
  • Mishra, Prashant, “Octavio Paz’s indigenous Surrealism: A Study of Erotic Mysticism”, in the 5th International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS 2022), Texas, US, Nov. 17-20, 2022.
  • Mishra, Prashant, “Silences in Octavio Paz and John Cage”, in the International Conference on Poetry Studies (ICPS 2021), London, UK, Sept. 18-19, 2021.
  • Mishra, Prashant, “Paz Against Bataille: Violence, Transgression, and Ritual within Eroticism”, in the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), London, UK, Nov. 4-6, 2021.

  • Jean-Michel Rabaté’s “Derrida’s Moderns: Exploring the Application of Deconstruction within the Modernist Context”

  • Mishra, Prashant. (20XX). Souvenirs from the Future: Narrative as TechnÄ“ for Time-Travel in Borges.
  • Mishra, Prashant. (20XX). ‘The Grace of Wilted Things’: Disappearing Materiality in the Modern Condition.
  • Mishra, Prashant. (20XX). Erotic Gaze in Julio Cortázar’s Prosa del Observatorio.
  • Mishra, Prashant. (20XX). Analogy of the Sacred and Borges’s Extra-rational things.
  • Mishra, Prashant. (20XX). Borges, Totalities, and Analogies from Mystical Discourses
  • Mishra, Prashant. (20XX). Aesthetics and Non-Art.

  • Perspectives on Contemporary Issues
  • Critical Thinking and Storytelling
  • Ritualistic and Digital Objects
  • Technology and Philosophy

  • Continental Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Modernist Literature
  • Human-Object Relation
  • Philosophy of Technology
  • Creative Writing

Work Experience

Academic Faculty

  • Assistant Professor, Institute of Management, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur. (June 2024-Till date)
  • Teaching Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (January 2019 - December 2023)

Administrative Assignments

  • Member, Library Committee, JKLU. (Dec 5, 2024 - Present).

  • Co-founder of the international art magazine, Shiuli.
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  • Bachelor of Technology B.Tech

  • Bachelor of Design B.Des

  • Bachelor of Business Administration BBA

  • Bachelor of Business Administration BBA (Fintech)

  • Bachelor of Business Administration BBA (Honours)

  • Master of Design M.Des

  • Master of Technology M.Tech

  • Master of Business Administration MBA

  • Doctor of Philosophy PhD

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