• 2019 -2024 – Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal
• 2024- ON GOING – Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras

• Sreenath, V S and Chandran, Mini. “Kāvyaśāstra and Creative Freedom In Pre-Modern India”. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol.57 (3), 2022. 48-54.
• Sreenath, V.S . “The Dharmic Function of Sanskrit Kāvya: Poetry as a Suggestive Force.” Journal of Dharma Studies (Springer). Vol 5 (1), 2022. 1-16.
• Sreenath, V S. “Dissent, Debate and Vegetative Existence: Sanskrit Poetics and Nationalist Trend.” Economic and Political Weekly. Vol 57(41), 2022. (Forthcoming)
• Sreenath, V.S. “What To Do with the Past?: Sanskrit Literary Criticism in Postcolonial Space.” Journal of Indian Philosophy. (Springer). Vol 49, 2021. 129–144.
• Sreenath, V.S. “Resistance to Svabhāvokti: Kuntaka’s Theory of Vakrokti as an Enriching Experience for Author and Reader.” South Asian Review (Taylor and Francis). 40 (1), 2019. 98-111.
• Sreenath, V.S. “Symbolic Power of Poetry.” Economic and Political Weekly.54 (2), 2019. 70-73.
• Sreenath, V.S. “Avivakṣitavācya-dhvani and the Deterritorialization of Signifier: A Liberating Experience for Author and Reader.” Journal of Indian Philosophy. (Springer). 45 (5), 2017. 817–836.
• Sreenath, V.S. “The Deconstructive Force on Rasa- Towards a Post-Theory Praxis.” Indian Literature. (Sahitya Akademy).59 (5), 2017. 212-219.
• Sreenath V.S. Nostalgia for the Colonial World: A Reconsideration of Mayyazhi’s Colonial Past.” JSL (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi).20 (2), 2016. 20-29.
• Sreenath V.S. “Othappu in Two Tongues.” Translation Today (National Translation Mission). 10 (1), 2015. 161- 177.

• Sreenath, V.S and Chandran, Mini. An Introduction to Indian Aesthetics: History, Theory, and Theoreticians. Bloomsbury, 2020.
• Sreenath, V.S, Pan, Anandita, and Rajendran Punnya. Aesthetics in India: Transitions and Transformations. Orient Blackswan, 2023.
• Sreenath, V.S. Sanskrit Poetics in the Postcolonial Space: Beyond the Canon. Bloomsbury, 2024.

I am a recipient of the Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize, 2022 by Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies for the article “What To Do with the Past?: Sanskrit Literary Criticism in Postcolonial Space.” Journal of Indian Philosophy. (Springer). Vol 49, 2021. The distinguished jury which selected him for the award comprised of Prof Robert JC Young (Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University), Prof Rajeswari Sunder Rajan (Global Distinguished Professor of Literature, New York University), and Prof Rukmini Bhaya Nair, (Professor Emerita at Humanities and Social Sciences Department, IIT, Delhi). The work which won me the award is my paper “What to do with the Past: Sanskrit Literary Theories in the Postcolonial Space” (Journal of Indian Philisophy, Springer (2021).

1) Funding Agency: Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
    Collaborators: Dr. Anandita Pan (IISER Bhopal) Huang Chang-Ling (National Taiwan University)
    Status: On-going

2) Funding Agency: Shastri-Indo Canadian Institute
    Collaborators: Dr. Anandita Pan (IISER Bhopal) Dr.Ajay Parasram (Dalhousie University, Canada)
    Status: Completed

3) Funding Agency: Rajya Shiksha Kendra, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh.
    Collaborators: Dr. Anandita Pan (IISER Bhopal) Dr. Chitwan Lalji (IIM Kozhikode)
    Status: Completed

1. IACLALS (Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies)
2. MLA (Modern Language Association)