Biography

Haris C. Adhikari, assistant professor of English and communication at Kathmandu University (KU), holds an MA (2008) in English and American Literature and an MPhil (2021) in English Language Education. He joined KU in 2015 as a lecturer and since then has taught different courses of professional and technical communication, English language and literature, academic writing, intercultural communication, and business and legal communication.

Author of three books of poetry, poetic inquiries, and literary translation, Adhikari has widely contributed his creative works to esteemed journals, both at home and abroad. He co-edits Polysemy, a journal of interdisciplinary scholarship published out of DoMIC, and reviews works of artistic research for Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal published out of University of Alberta, Canada. In the past, he edited Misty Mountain Review, an online journal of short poetry, and served for Nepal Monitor, a semi-scholarly journal. His major research interest areas include poetics and poetic inquiry, rhetorics, place-based creative writing, writing research, literary translation, teacher research, innovative pedagogies, border and diaspora literature, Eastern mythologies, decolonial discourses, and newer developments in (post-)qualitative research.

Member of Nepali Writers Writing in English (NWEN) and International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), Adhikari has received a full grant scholarship (2019) for 'Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology - 2019' from Wenner-Gren Foundation, USA, two international conference grants (2023; 2018) from University Grants Commission, Nepal, and a faculty development fund (2019) for MPhil studies from KU.