Jibu Mathew George is Professor in the Department of English Literature, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. His areas of research are meta-questions in the humanities, continental philosophy, European intellectual history, literary modernism, critical theory, philosophy of religion, hermeneutics, mythology and folklore, lifespan psychology, and Holocaust studies. He is the author of Ulysses Quotīdiānus: James Joyce’s Inverse Histories of the Everyday (2016); The Ontology of Gods: An Account of Enchantment, Disenchantment, and Re-Enchantment (2017); and Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies: Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them? (2019). A three-volume international anthology of essays entitled De Natura Fidei: Rethinking Religion across Disciplinary Boundaries edited by him was published in 2021. He has also co-edited a volume entitled Reflections on Ecotextuality from India: Greening Literature Anew (2023). He featured in the Oxford Academic Index of Critics in 2018. He was Research Fellow at the Zürich James Joyce Foundation, Switzerland, in 2008. In the same year he also received a DAAD Scholarship for studies at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. He is editor of the literary studies issues of the English and Foreign Languages Journal; and pre-publication reviewer for Springer, Dordrecht, Routledge, New Delhi, and Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad.

Modernism, James Joyce Studies, Critical Theory, Narratology, Meta-Questions in the Humanities, European Intellectual History, Hermeneutics, Holocaust Studies, Continental Philosophy, Religion and Mythology, Lifespan Psychology, Philosophy of History, Micro-History, The Quotidian/Everyday Life, Thanatology