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Mukesh Williams, PhD
Mukesh Williams is a renowned poet and scholar living in Japan. His poems have appeared in Indian, Canadian, American and Caribbean journals such as Campus Poetry, Youth Times, Indian Verse, The Journal of Indian Writing in English, Muse India, Centrifugal Eye, The Blue Fog Journal of Poetry, Foliate Oak, Plankton, and Best Poem: A Literary Journal. He is now working simultaneously on three books of poems namely Bharatvarsha, The French Café and The Ganga, all due for publication shortly. He has a doctorate in Contemporary American Literature from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and has worked with Professors William Mulder, V. N. Arora and late Leslie A. Fiedler who were his research supervisors. He has taught English poetry (from Geoffrey Chaucer to T.S. Eliot) English fiction (from Daniel Defoe to D.H. Lawrence), English prose (from Joseph Addison to Jonathan Swift) and English drama ( from Christopher Marlowe to William Shakespeare) for nearly two decades at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. During this time he has also been the editor-in-chief of the College magazine, The Stephanian. Briefly, he was the President of the Shakespeare Society at St. Stephen’s College and acted in the Shakespeare’s play Troilus and Cressida. Professor Williams has taught language, literature and American Studies courses to undergraduate and graduate students and technical writing to graduate students for nearly nine years at Soka University, Japan. Simultaneously, he has also taught South Asian Studies, American Studies, TOEFL, Asian Security, Media and Identities courses at Keio University for over six years. He has published over 55 research papers on American, British, Japanese, Indian, and Caribbean literatures, American Studies, Asian religious traditions, American movies, British and American music, India and Japan trade relations. He has also published dozens of editorials, over 70 poems, two books, and attended 15 international conferences. He has over 26 years of teaching experience at St. Stephen’s College Delhi, Keio University-SFC and Soka University. As a freelancer he also does some reporting for BBC, London on matters relating to Japan besides being a prolific poet. His first book of poems, Nakasendo and Other Poems was published in 2006 and his second book Moving Spaces, Changing Places, a collection of 123 poems, came out in 2007. As one literary critic has pointed out his poetry “reverberates with the unrealized potential of the universe” and captivates the reader with its mellifluous sounds and linguistic prowess. Professor John G. Cawelti of the University of Chicago finds his poems “very expressive and moving” especially the way he “blends Greek allusions with Indian stories to evolve universal human feelings of love and longing.” One of the early reviewers of his poems finds echoes of Pound, Eliot, Tagore, Ogiwara Seisensui in his poetry. Williams’ evocative lyricism and controlled cynicism makes him a truly postmodern poet who captures and represents the pulse of our times. His third co-authored book, Representing India: Politics, Identities, and Literatures, was released by Oxford University Press in December 2007 and since then has been favorably reviewed in Business India, Muse India, The Telegraph, The Hindu, Boloji.com, Amazon Canada and Literary India. He is now working with Rohit Wanchoo on documenting partition memories of people who came from western Punjab and Sind in 1947 and since then have settled down in New Delhi especially in Old and New Rajinder Nagar. |
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