Satish Gupta

Satish K. Gupta (b. 1969) was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English (1993) by Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi. He is the author of Kenneth Burke’s Literary Theory (1995) which studies Burke’s theory in the light of the principle of binarism. The book in the words of Sukhbir Singh (Fulbright Visiting Professor of English, University of Chicago) “... is a remarkable example of brilliant scholarship”. Dr. Gupta has also published research papers on literary theory, fiction and poetry in distinguished scholarly journals and anthologies. He has been widely reviewed and has also reviewed many books.

Satish has been a fellow twice at American Studies Research Centre, Hyderabad wherefrom he completed a course on American Civilization. He is a member of several literary bodies, learned societies in India and abroad. Dr. Gupta has also been invited as a Visiting Fellow to the Department of English & Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine in U.S.A. (1994).

Dr. Gupta’s interests are in addition to literature, in Music and Motion Picture. At the moment he is engaged in a postdoctoral research on post-1950 American Literary Theory.