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Satvik Gupta

Satvik Gupta
Satvik Gupta
 
PhD (English Literature), IIT Ropar

Contact Details

 
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4275-0363
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=58576159500

Biography

Dr. Satvik Gupta is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Dhirubhai Ambani University, Gandhinagar, India. He received his doctoral degree in November 2024 from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar. His research focuses on the Lovecraftian aesthetics of cosmic horror fiction. Specifically, he investigates the essence of existential horror latent in non-human experiences such as cosmic horror and weird fiction. He is also interested in exploring the intersection of literature and architecture across supernatural narratives. His research has been published in Textual Practice, Horror Studies and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. He has presented his work at conferences across Germany, Spain and Romania

Specialization

Weird Fiction, Horror Fiction, Speculative Fiction, World Literature, Existentialism, Absurdism

Publications

RESEARCH ARTICLES:

  • Gupta, Satvik, and Bijoy H. Boruah. “‘The Lurid and the Lovely’: Degrees of Disillusionment and Existential Awakening in Thomas Ligotti’s Cosmic Horror.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Apr. 2025, pp. 1–13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2025.2496273.
  • Ray, Dibyakusum, and Satvik Gupta. “Dark Epiphany: The Lovecraftian in Twentieth-Century Existential Literature.” Horror Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, Apr. 2025, pp. 7–24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/host_00093_1.
  • Gupta, Satvik, and Dibyakusum Ray. “‘ … Miles of the Rustling Secret Corn’: Nature, Cosmic and Autonomy in American Cosmic Horror Literature.” Textual Practice, vol. 38, no. 12, Dec. 2024, pp. 1858–75. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2023.2259347.

BOOK CHAPTERS (FORTHCOMING):

  • Gupta, Satvik. “Hidden beneath the masses of the hideous lichen”: Mycelial Transgressions in the Weird Fictions of Poe, Machen, Blackwood and Hodgson”. To be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2026.
  • Gupta, Satvik. “Pondering Infinity and Irrationality in the Fantastic Architecture and Geography in Jorge Luis Borges’ Fiction”. To be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2025.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

  • Gupta, Satvik [14-16 June, 2024]. The 25th Annual International Conference of the English Department. “At the Manors of Madness: Analysing the Unhuman in Lovecraft’s ‘Cosmic’ Architecture”. University of Bucharest, Romania.
  • Gupta, Satvik [5-7 July, 2023]. Folklore and Gothic. Supernatural Presences in the Americas and Europe. “Ecophobia and Existential Horror: Re-interpreting Camus and Sartre”. Universidad de León, Spain.
  • Gupta, Satvik [22-24 Sept, 2022]. Fantastic Geographies | 13th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic. “Geographical Infinitude: Fantastic Worlds in Jorge Luis Borges’ Short Stories”. TU Dortmund University, Germany

Teaching

INTRODUCTION TO SPECULATIVE FICTION & FILMS (ELECTIVE)

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