Shahrukh Khan is a PhD Research Scholar at English
and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. He has qualified for
Assistant Professorship and been awarded the Junior Research Fellowship from
UGC. Besides, he has also qualified GATE with AIR 286. He has completed his
M.Phil. in “The Metaphor of Home in Sea Fiction: A Critique of Yann Martel’s Life
of Pi and Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea” from Mahatma Gandhi
Central University, India. He was awarded the Gold Medal in M.A. (English) from
Aliah University, Kolkata, India. He has been published in the Lincom Press,
Germany. His research interests include blue humanities, oceanic/sea/river literature,
and blue ecocriticism.