Professor Someshwar Sati is currently in the Department of English at Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, and is the founding and current Coordinator of the Centre for Disability Research and Training (CDRT) of the college as well as the Chairperson of the Indian Disability Studies Collective (IDSC) - an association of disability scholars from across the country.
With a M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi his areas of research interests include postcolonial theory, Indian English Novel and particularly Disability Studies. The story of his disability activism is primarily a tale of his attempts to trigger conversation around disability within the Indian Academia particularly within the undergraduate and graduate classrooms of colleges and universities in India. With this view, he has organised lectures, certificate courses, faculty development programmes, national and international conferences in different parts of India.
To give a solid theoretical foundation to the understanding of Disability within the Indian context he has edited the following critical volumes-Disability in Translation : The Indian Experience (Routledge, 2019), Reclaiming the Disabled Subject : Representing Disability in Short Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2022), Retrieving the Crip Outsider : Representations of Disability in Literature and Culture (Bloomsbury, 2023), Narrative Universes of Disability : Global Perspectives (Springer, 2025). But above all his focus has been on introducing Disability Studies within mainstream undergraduate and graduate curriculum and drafting syllabi for the same. To promote and popularise disability knowledge among students he has also authored textbooks for their curriculum such as Literary and Cultural Disability Studies: A Primer (2025), Centring Disability in the Indian English Novel: Revisiting Firdaus Kanga’s Trying to Grow (2025), and edited an academic book of Georgina Kleege’s Sight Unseen.
He also conducts disability awareness and sensitization workshops in collaboration with different colleges and universities across India. He has also devoted himself to the creation of systemic institutional structures to facilitate the inclusion of students with disabilities into the educational mainstream, and to the task of counselling other educational institutions to develop inclusive educational practices based on the principle of equity, justice and reasonable accommodation.
In recognition of his contribution to the establishment of a more accessible and inclusive academic space nationwide the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India in 2022 bestowed him with a National Award for Empowering Persons with Disability in the category of Sarvshreshtha Divyangjan.