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Mukesh Williams, PhD
Mukesh Williams is a renowned poet and scholar living in Japan. His poems have appeared in Indian, Canadian, American and Caribbean journals such as Campus Poetry, Youth Times, Indian Verse, The Journal of Indian Writing in English, Muse India, Centrifugal Eye, The Blue Fog Journal of Poetry, Foliate Oak, Plankton, Best Poem: A Literary Journal, and The Copperfield Review. He is now working on a collection of poems entitled The Figural Moment, due for publication shortly. He is also a short story writer and his short stories have been published in international journals including The Copperfield Review. He is listed in the World Poetry Directory, UNESCO 2008 and Marquis Who’s Who in the World. He teaches at Soka University and Keio University-SFC Japan and can be contacted through his blog site Professor Williams has a doctorate in Contemporary American Literature from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and has worked with Professors V. N. Arora (IIT-Delhi) late Leslie A. Fiedler (SUNY-Buffalo) and late William Mulder (University of Utah-Salt Lake City) who were his research supervisors. He has taught English literature for nearly two decades at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and worked as the editor-in-chief of the College magazine, The Stephanian. Briefly, he was the President of the Shakespeare Society at St. Stephen’s College and acted in the Shakespeare’s play Troilus and Cressida. He has taught American Studies, South Asian Studies, Academic and Research Paper Writing, Asian Security, Media and Identities courses to undergraduate and graduate students in Japan. He has published over fifty research papers dozens of editorials, over 150 poems, two books, and attended 15 international conferences. He has over 29 years of teaching experience at IIT Madras, St. Stephen’s College Delhi, Keio University-SFC and Soka University. As a freelancer he also does some reporting for BBC, London on matters relating to Japan besides being a prolific poet. His first book of poems, Nakasendo and Other Poems was published in 2006 and his second book Moving Spaces, Changing Places, a collection of 123 poems, came out in 2007. As one literary critic has pointed out his poetry “reverberates with the unrealized potential of the universe” and captivates the reader with its mellifluous sounds and linguistic prowess. Professor John G. Cawelti of the University of Chicago finds his poems “very expressive and moving” especially the way he “blends Greek allusions with Indian stories to evolve universal human feelings of love and longing.” One of the early reviewers of his poems finds echoes of Pound, Eliot, Tagore, Ogiwara Seisensui in his poetry. Williams’ evocative lyricism and controlled cynicism makes him a truly postmodern poet who captures and represents the pulse of our times. Mandira Ghosh writing in the Journal of the Poetry Society (India) sees in Nakasendo a unique “configuration” of Japanese and Indian cultures. His third co-authored book, Representing India: Politics, Identities, and Literatures, was released by Oxford University Press in January 2008 and since then has been favorably reviewed in Business India, Muse India, The Telegraph, The Hindu, Boloji.com, Amazon Canada and Literary India. He is now working on documenting partition memories of people who came from western Punjab and Sind in 1947 and since then have settled down in New Delhi especially in Old and New Rajinder Nagar.
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