Vijay Mishra

Biography

Vijay Mishra was born in Fiji and educated at Victoria University of Wellington, Macquarie, Sydney, the Australian National University and Oxford. He holds doctorates from the ANU and Oxford in two separate disciplines. He is a multidisciplinary scholar whose writings are cited by scholars working in film studies, classical Indian studies, religious studies as well as English literature (including postcolonial, diaspora and Australian literatures). Some of his essays and books have been foundational with essays reprinted and sections of books anthologized. He has published nine single-authored books and one co-authored book. They are: Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind (with Bob Hodge, 1991), The Gothic Sublime (1994), Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime (1998), Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire (2002), The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary (2006), What Was Multiculturalism? (2012), Annotating Salman Rushdie (2018), Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy (2019), V S Naipaul and World Literature (2024) and Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature (2024).