Aashish Kaul

Associate Professor
Department of English
Aashish Kaul - CV
Aashish Kaul

Contact

Humanities 317
Education

DA, University of Sydney

About

Aashish Kaul's research and teaching span modern and global anglophone literature, history of the novel, nature studies, narrative theory, hybridity, and creative writing. His work has been published in Australia, Britain, India and North America. His books include A Dream of Horses & Other Stories and the chess-inspired novel The Queen’s Play.

A new novel, Bliss Mountain, touching upon economic and financial history, modernist architecture, romantic literature, and the natural world was published in 2025 by Finishing Line Press.

 

Cover of "The Queen's Play", with an image of a statue of a carved head and text that reads, "The Queen's Play, Aashish Kaul"
Bliss Mountain Book Cover showing picture of a mountain
Cover of "A Dream of Horses & other stories," featuring a black and white photo of an outdoor staircase with railings and streetlights, a quote with text too small to read, "A Dream of Horses & other stories" written in white text on orange, and "Aashish Kaul" written in white text on blue.
Cover of 'Of Indian Origin' with an illustration of people standing in the shape of India superimposed over a map of Australia

 

 








Recent Courses

AENG 710: Textual Studies – I: Literary & Critical Theory
AENG 516: Workshop in Fiction: Trends in Contemporary Writing
AENG 560: Hybridity & Liminality in Modern Literature
AENG 581: Studies in a Literary Period: Nature and Landscape Writing                                                AENG 450Y: History and Theory of the Novel
AENG 402Z: Advanced Writing Workshop: The Short Story
AENG 402Z: Advanced Writing Workshop: The Art of the Novella
AENG 359: Studies in Narrative: Form and Narration in the Modern Period                                         AENG 305V: Studies in Writing about Texts: Autofiction                                                                                   AENG 302W: Creative Writing
TENG 270: Living Literature: Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
AENG 222: World Literature

 

Personal website: https://aashishkaul.com/