English Lecturer, School Education Dept. J&K · PhD Scholar, DBRAU Agra
Athar Malik
Education creates lasting value when it doesn’t just transmit knowledge, but creates, preserves, and shares it.
I teach English literature in Rajouri, Jammu & Kashmir, and research how Indian fiction has represented disability over four decades. The same question runs through my classroom, my thesis, and the two open archives I help build: who gets treated as a full subject, and by what means.
I’m an English Lecturer with the School Education Department, Jammu & Kashmir, and a doctoral researcher at Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra. My work sits at the intersection of Disability Studies, Indian English fiction, and Digital Humanities, three fields that look separate on paper but come back to the same interest: how a text, a classroom, or an archive decides who it takes seriously.
That’s why the site is organised this way. Research explains what I’m arguing about literature. Vision explains what that looks like in a classroom. Projects explains the archives I maintain so material worth reading doesn’t quietly go missing.
- Current position
- English Lecturer, State Govt. of Jammu & Kashmir. Since May 2026.
- Doctoral research
- English Literature, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra
- Based in
- Rajouri, Jammu & Kashmir, India
Reading literature and law side by side
My thesis brings four novels and a memoir into one comparison, spanning 1980 to 2014, and reads that comparison against how Indian disability law changed across the same years. A published article on Indian cinema and two essays in progress extend the same method to film.
Read the full research page- Doctoral thesis
- A Study of Representation of Disability in Select Indian English Novels
- Interests
- Disability Studies, Indian English Fiction, Postcolonial Literature, Digital Humanities
- Current role
- English Lecturer, Rajouri, since May 2026
- Certification
- UGC‑NET in English (Aug 2024, Jul 2025)
Where the classroom meets the research
Weekly debates, a speaking rotation, student-set discussion topics, and group tasks are the actual shape of my teaching, alongside where I’ve taught and what I’m qualified to teach. The thinking behind those choices lives on the Vision page.
See teaching & formationKeeping material from going unread
Oceanic Fiction and Disability Archives both exist because certain kinds of writing, water-themed fiction from the subcontinent, disability-focused criticism, are easy to lose track of without a shared, open point of access. English Summary does similar work for students learning the syllabus itself.
See all three projects- Oceanic Fiction
- Technical Lead, 2025 to present
- Disability Archives
- Dept. of English, DBRAU Agra, ongoing
- English Summary
- Independent platform, 2017 to present
Get in touch
For collaboration, teaching enquiries, or questions about the research and archives above, reach out directly. I read and reply to every message.
- Profile
- Project