Research Interests

My broader areas of interest include 'history of ideas' and 'interventionist intellectual historiography'. These two areas, for me, go hand in hand, enriching each other. Drawing inspiration from the cardinal principles of these two streams of knowledge, I currently work on the problematics of the treatment of indigenous knowledge systems in the postcolonial space. The following are the broader areas I am currently working on:Sanskrit Literary Theory

Literary Theory and Criticism

Cultural Studies

Colonial history of Kerala

Colonial Modernity and its impact on indigenous knowledge systems

Translation studies (with special emphasis on Malayalam Literature)

New Historicism

#	Authors	Title	Journals	Year
1	V S Sreenath	Satra in Sahitya: The Philosophy of Aesthetic Expression and Experience in Balakanda (Forthcoming)	Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (Springer)	2023
2	Sreenath V S	The Dharmic Function of Sanskrit Kavya: Poetry as a Suggestive Force	Journal of Dharma Studies (Springer)	2022
3	V S Sreenath	Dissent, Debate and Vegetative Existence: Sanskrit Poetics and Nationalist Trend	Economic and Political Weekly	2022
4	Sreenath V S,and Chandran Mini	Kavyasastra and Creative Freedom In Pre-Modern India	Economic and Political Weekly	2022
5	Sreenath V S	What To Do with the Past?: Sanskrit Literary Criticism in Postcolonial Space	Journal of Indian Philosophy (Springer)	2021
6	Sreenath V S	Resistance to Svabhavokti: Kuntaka's theory of Vakrokti as an Enriching Experience for Author and Reader	South Asian Review (Taylor and Francis)	2019
7	Sreenath V S	Symbolic Power of Poetry	Economic and Political Weekly	2019
8	Sreenath V S	The Deconstructive Force on Rasa- Towards a Post-Theory Praxis	Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi)	2018
9	Sreenath V S	Avivaksitavacya-dhvani and the Deterritorialization of Signifier: A Liberating Experience for Author and Reader	Journal of Indian Philosophy (Springer)	2017
10	Sreenath V S	Resistance to Canon: Towards a New Approach to Sanskrit Literary Theories	Journal of Contemporary Thought (Forum for Contemporary Thought)	2017
11	Sreenath V S	Nostalgia for the Colonial World: A Reconsideration of Mayyazhi's Colonial Past	JSL (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)	2016
12	Sreenath V S	Othappu in Two Tongues	Translation Today (National Translation Mission)	2015

Authors	Editors	Title	Publisher	Year

Authors	Editors	Title	Publisher	Year
Sreenath V S	Anandita Pan Punnya Rajendran	Aesthetics in India: Transitions and Transformations	Orient Blackswan	2023
Sreenath V S	Sreenath V S	Beyond the Canon: The Future of Sanskrit Poetics (Forthcoming)	Bloomsbury	2022
Sreenath V S Mini Chandran	Sreenath V S Mini Chandran	An Introduction to Sanskrit Poetics: History, Theory and Theoreticians	Bloomsbury	2020