Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal

Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal is Senior Lecturer in English at Feroze Gandhi College, Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, India.

He obtained his doctorate with a thesis on T. S. Eliot from Allahabad University. Agarwal is interested mostly in Indian Aesthetics, Diaspora, and Contemporary Critical Theory. His InterViews with a number of contemporary literary figures, as well as his research papers, book reviews, articles, and poems have appeared in publications, including South Asian Review, Kavya Bharati, The Vedic Path, IJPCL, Quest, The Confluence, Kafla Intercontinental, Pegasus, IJOWLAC, The Journal, Contemporary Vibes, Promise, The Raven Chronicles, Yellow Bat Review, Poetcrit, Carved in Sand, Turning the Tide, Blue Collar Review, Creative Writing And Criticism, The Expression, Bridge-in-Making, Katha Kshetre, and Hyphen.

His poems and articles have been selected for several anthologies. For example, his poem "To Lord Krishna" appeared in the anthology "The Pagan’s Muse" (Citadel Press). Several of his literary pieces have been included in The People’s Poet: Summer Community Magazine of 2004 and are posted on websites. He has also edited a critical book on Stephen Gall. He actively participated in the International Literary Festival, 2008, organized by Kerala Language Institute at Calicut (Kerala, India) and also presented a paper there. He edits Parnassus: An Innovative Journal of Literary Criticism.