Muneer Aram Kuzhiyan

Dr A.K. Muneer (Muneer Aram Kuzhiyan) is an Assistant Professor of English at Aligarh Muslim University, India. He is primarily interested in comparative literary and cultural studies with a focus on literary formations in the Indian Ocean World (IOW). As a researcher keen on an ‘anthropological’ way of looking at the ‘literary’, he is intrigued by how literary formations do various things with texts, requiring an analytic that goes beyond cultural hermeneutics. To this end, his current book manuscript aims to develop a cultural poetics of Arabi-Malayalam literary genres on the Malabar Coast.

Muneer’s published work includes articles that have appeared in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, South Asian Review, Contemporary South Asia, and English Today. He was awarded the 2025 Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial (MMM) Prize by the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) for his chapter, “Amphibious Poetics on the Malabar Coast: Kappappāṭṭu and the Chronotope of the Ship in Mappila Literary Culture,” in The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South (2024). Additionally, he was a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (2013–2014) and has directed a research project on women and Arabi-Malayalam song culture, funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research.