Steven S George is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of History at King’s College London. He earned his PhD in English Literature from Jamia Millia Islamia, India. His research explores the intersections of Digital Humanities, Medical Humanities, artificial intelligence, and decoloniality. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, a Summer Fellow at Michigan State University, USA, and a recipient of the Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society’s Research Fellowship Award. He co‑edited Panorama of the Pandemic (Routledge, 2025) and serves on the Governing Body of DHARTI (Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations). He has presented his research at international forums including MIT, the University of Southampton, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, and Aarhus University.

Research interests

• Digital Humanities and computational approaches to literary and cultural studies
• Intersections of decolonial theory in artificial intelligence
• Archival praxis, digital storytelling, and performance studies

Teaching

Digital Humanities and computational approaches to literary and cultural studiesIntersections of decolonial theory in artificial intelligenceArchival praxis, digital storytelling, and performance studies

Expertise and public engagement

Steven’s interest in performance theory stems from his long‑standing practice in theatre direction and scriptwriting. He has secured two national fellowships in direction and scriptwriting and has been invited to international theatre festivals and organisations to present and discuss his work. His plays have been serialised in newspaper tabloids and also appear in the first 'Indian Electronic Literature Anthology'. He has spoken about his performance practice in interviews such as with France 24 (France TV) New Delhi and has been invited by German institutions to present his approach to performance on expert panels.

He has also been invited to expert panels on Christianity, convened by research centres and civil‑society organisations across Delhi, Goa, Bangalore, and Kerala.

As a Governing Body member of DHARTI (Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations), Steven contributes to the Events Committee by organising workshops and conferences that actively engage public‑facing audiences with Digital Humanities pedagogy.

Selected publications

“The Digital, Postdramatic Moment in Theatre: A Genealogical Study” (with Ruchi Nagpal). FORTELL: Journal of Teaching English Language and Literature, Issue 52, January 2026.

“Letters Across Lines – Tracing Asia Through St. Francis Xavier’s Legacy”. In The Pan Asian Heritage of St. Francis Xavier: Between Memory & Contemporary Appropriations (Ed. Bubbles B. Asor, Michel Chambon, James Ponniah), ISAC & ISPCK, 2026.

Panorama of the Pandemic: A Phenomenological Inquiry (co‑edited with Simi Malhotra, Ruchi Nagpal, Sananda Roy), Routledge, 2025.

“Digital Theatre: The Personal is Political”. In Panorama of the Pandemic: A Phenomenological Inquiry (Ed. Malhotra, Nagpal, George, Roy), Routledge, 2025.

“Dalitality and Digital Media: Digital Forms of Dalit Expression”. National Council of Churches Review, Vol. XCLIV, May 2024.

“Singing the Complex Cadence: Antinomy and the Polyphonic Politic”. Religion and Society, 69(2), April 2024.

“Jugaad CoLab: Decolonial Poetics, Minimal Computing, and South Asian DH” (co‑authored). Digital Studies / Le champ numérique, 13(3), 2023.

“Christianity, Conversion and Caste: Reflecting on Identity in Dalit Christian Malayalam Writings in Post‑Colonial India”. In Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought (Ed. Menon, Zaidi), Routledge, 2023.

“Singing Rivers: Spatial Discourses and Milieu‑Specific Analysis”. In Globalization and Sense‑Making Practices: Phenomenologies of the Global, Local and Glocal (Ed. Malhotra, Rizvi, Singh), Routledge, 2023.

“I Can’t Breathe” (with Vinit Gupta). Indian Electronic Literature Anthology (Ed. Menon, Shanmugapriya, Joseph, Sutton), IIT Indore, 2023.

“Autobiographies From The Margin: A Study of Bama's Karukku and Nalini Jameela's The Autobiography of a Sex Worker”. Religion and Society, 67(4), December 2022.