Dr  U K Shamsudheen   is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Centre for Writing and Pedagogy, Krea University. He holds a PhD from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His doctoral dissertation, Shaping Time, Telling Stories: Parabolic Narratives in O. V. Vijayan, T. V. Kochubava, and Sree Narayana Guru (2025), examines the use of parabolic forms across Malayalam literature and thought, with a focus on the fiction of O. V. Vijayan and T. V. Kochubava and selected conversations of the saint-reformer Sree Narayana Guru. His research explores questions of narrative, temporality, genre, and the relationship between literary forms and historical contexts.

He was a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (2019–2020). Before joining Krea University, he worked as a Research Associate at IIT Bombay. He has presented his research at Princeton University, the University of Hyderabad, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Calicut, and the 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) in Philadelphia (2025).

Outside academia, Shamsudheen writes poetry and screenplays in Malayalam. He has been involved in film-society activities for over a decade through the Dialogue Film Society, Ottapalam, where his work has included organising annual film festivals, weekly film screenings, and occasional workshops on filmmaking. In 2025, he served as a jury member for the Chelavoor Venu Awards for Best Malayalam Short Feature and Best Malayalam Documentary at the 18th SiGNS National Documentary and Short Film Festival, organised by the Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI) in collaboration with the Kerala State Chalachithra Academy.

Research Interests:

Narrative Theory; Parable Studies; Modernism; Comparative Literature; Social Reform Movements in South India

Publications:

Shamsudheen, U. K. “An Irreverent Sensorium: Basheer’s ‘Divyamaya Dangudungu.’” Ala / അല: A kerala Studies Blog, Issue 92, 31 May 2026. https://alablog.in/issues/92/basheer-divyamaya-dangudungu/

Teaching Modules:

Writing and Oral Communication (T1)