Dr. Murali Sivaramakrishnan

Dr. Murali Sivaramakrishnan is a poet, painter, professor and literary critic. He is the author of The Mantra of Vision (1997), Learning to Think Like Myself (2010), Communication, and Clarification: Essays on English in the Indian Classroom (2014), Strategies and Methods: Relocating Textual Meaning (2018) and a number of critical essays and six volumes of poetry.

He is a member of the scientific committee of English Studies, University of Valladolid in Spain. He was also a Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti, New Delhi, and an Associate of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

He is member and coordinator of research of the Herman Hesse Society of India. His Nature and Human Nature: Literature, Ecology, Meaning (2009) is a pioneering work on Indian ecocriticism.

He was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Travel Grant to teach and do research in the University of Nevada at Reno (2006). He has bagged many awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award for Poetry by GIEWEC, Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Critics and IMRF Excellence Award.