Augustine George has a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Amrita University, Coimbatore (Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Kochi Campus). His doctoral research was on Transhumanism in Japanese Manga. He has an M.Phil. in English Language and Literature from Kannur University (Thalassery Campus, Palayad). He completed his Masters in English from Sacred Heart College, Thevara (M.G. University, Kottayam). He began his academic career as a Guest Lecturer in English at The Cochin College, Kochi in 2014. He has taught and engaged with diverse topics throughout his academic career. These range from English Literary History and Literary Theory and Criticism, to Contemporary Literature. Besides Graphic Novels and Comics, his research interests include Weird Fiction and Science Fiction. He has Scopus Indexed, UGC Care Listed, and other journal publications to his credit.
Research/Specialization/interest
- Graphic Novels and Comics
- Transhumanism and Posthumanism
- Horror and Weird Fiction
- Science Fiction
- “Darryl Cunningham interview.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Routledge, April 2023. DOI:10.1080/21504857.2023.2202870 (with Aswin Prasanth and Rajesh Panhathodi) (Scopus Q1)
- “Six Stories – One Novel, Self-Organization at the Edge of Chaos: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.” Journal of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Vol. XCV, No. 31, 2022 (With Dr. Sreelakshmi N.) (UGC – CARE Listed)
- “When a Documentary Film is Properly Researched, it Almost Makes Itself.”: An Interview with Stephen Trombley,” in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Routledge, April 2022. DOI:10.1080/10509208.2022.2055431 (with Aswin Prasanth and Rajesh Panhathodi) (Scopus Q1)
- “‘I like to think of my comics adaptations as my own recitations … ’: in conversation with Julian Peters,” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Routledge, January 2021. DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2020.1857285 (with Rajesh Panhathodi and Aswin Prasanth) (Scopus Q1)
- “Rae Joyce (Rachel Fenton) interview,” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Routledge, August 2020. DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2020.1802317 (with Aswin Prasanth and Rajesh Panhathodi) (Scopus Q1)
- “Narrating the Cyborg: A Transhumanist Critique of Battle Angel Alita” in Teresian Journal of English Studies (TJES), Vol. 10, No. 1, 2019. (With Aswin Prasanth)
- “Aesthetic of Violence: A Study of Semiotic Transference of Violence in the Interface of Graphic Novel and Film in A History of Violence” in Singularities: A Transdisciplinary Biannual Research Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2018. (With Aswin Prasanth)
- “The Strange Attractor of Power in Cloud Atlas” in Literature and Cinema, 2016.
- “Is there Politics in these Texts?: The Ambiguities of Representation in Arun Kumar Aravind’s E Adutha Kalathu and Left Right Left.” in The Politics of Popular Culture (Seminar Proceedings), 2013. (With Rajesh James)