Vishwanath Bite
Research & publishing

Research, editing and publishing

More than 38 research papers, twelve books, two journals and a registered design.

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Journals

Founder & Editor-in-Chief of two journals

He founded The Criterion in April 2010 to give scholars of English studies an accessible, rigorous place to publish, and Galaxy IMRJ in 2012 to extend the same standards to other disciplines. He has led both as Founder & Editor-in-Chief since they began.

The Criterion logo

Journal 1 · founded April 2010

The Criterion: An International Journal in English

ISSN 0976-8165 · Dr Vishwanath Bite: Founder & Editor-in-Chief

History and scope

  • Founded in April 2010 as an international e-journal in English studies.
  • For its first sixteen years it also published poetry, fiction, book reviews and author interviews, an archive that stays freely accessible.
  • From Vol. 17, Issue 1 (February 2026) it publishes peer-reviewed research articles only.

English literature of all periods, world and comparative literature, Indian writing in English, postcolonial studies, literary theory, linguistics, ELT and digital humanities.

Editorial work

Editorial Board 2026–2029: 125 members from 8 countries (as stated by the journal).

Publishing infrastructure

DOIs
Every article from Vol. 17, Issue 1 (February 2026), under RCELL's shared prefix 10.66376 with the journal suffix criterion (e.g. 10.66376/criterion.v17.n1.1)
Preservation
Internet Archive (complete issues from Vol. 1, 2010)
Access
Open access, CC BY 4.0

Indexing and listings

MLA Directory of Periodicals · Google Scholar · OpenAlex · ROAD · Library of Congress · WorldCat

As stated by the journal (publisher-stated). Independently verified: Crossref membership and the 10.66376 prefix (Crossref public records).

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Galaxy IMRJ logo

Journal 2 · founded 2012

Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal

ISSN 2278-9529 · Dr Vishwanath Bite: Founder & Editor-in-Chief

History and scope

  • Founded in 2012 to extend the same editorial standards beyond literary studies.
  • Publishes peer-reviewed research in the humanities, social sciences, commerce, education and interdisciplinary fields, in English.
  • Bi-monthly; the journal states that between 2018 and 2024 some scheduled issues were not published for want of publishable submissions, and that all six 2025 issues appeared.

The humanities, social sciences, commerce, education and interdisciplinary fields such as the digital, environmental and health humanities.

Editorial work

Associate editors from India and abroad, with Dr Madhuri Bite as Managing Editor (as stated by the journal).

Publishing infrastructure

DOIs
Every article from Vol. 15, Issue 2 (2026), under RCELL's shared prefix 10.66376 with the journal suffix galaxy
Access
Open access, CC BY 4.0

Indexing and listings

Google Scholar · MLA Directory of Periodicals · ROAD · Library of Congress · ISSN Portal · OpenAlex

As stated by the journal (publisher-stated). Independently verified: Crossref membership and the 10.66376 prefix (Crossref public records).

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Shared editorial standards

Peer review
Double-blind review by three independent reviewers
Open access
Free to read under a CC BY 4.0 licence; authors keep copyright
Frequency
Six issues a year
Identifiers
One shared Crossref prefix, 10.66376, registered by RCELL (Crossref member 55993); each journal has its own DOI suffix
Ethics
Plagiarism screening and mandatory disclosure of AI-assisted tools

As stated on each journal's own website (checked 3 November 2026). Crossref membership and the 10.66376 prefix confirmed in Crossref's public records.

RCELL, the publisher

The Research Centre for English Language and Literature, established in 2012, is an independent scholarly organisation that publishes both journals, runs international conferences and registers the journals' DOIs as a Crossref member. It is directed by Dr Madhuri Bite, and it is the parent organisation of Literary Rides, its English Studies learning brand. Dr Vishwanath Bite is RCELL's Academic Adviser.

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Submitting research?

English studies papers go to The Criterion; papers from other disciplines go to Galaxy IMRJ. Each journal's editorial board makes its own decisions.

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Conversations with writers

15 interviews for The Criterion

Long-form interviews with novelists, playwrights, poets and critics, among them Mahesh Dattani, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Anita Nair and K. Satchidanandan.

Read the interviews

Design Patent

Language Learning Device

Design No. 466916-001, Class 14-02, registered 23 July 2025. Dr Vishwanath Bite is a co-proprietor.

Document
Certificate of Registration of Design
Issued by
The Patent Office, Government of India
Design No.
466916-001
Article
Language Learning Device
Class
14-02
Registered
23 July 2025
Certificate issued
13 November 2025
Under
Designs Act, 2000 and Designs Rules, 2001
Detail of the Certificate of Registration of Design, Design No. 466916-001, dated 23/07/2025
Detail of the Certificate of Registration of Design, The Patent Office, Government of India.

Research areas

Specialisations

Indian Writing in English

Fiction, drama, poetry and criticism by Indian writers in English, from the colonial period to the present.

Indian English Drama

Playwrights including Mahesh Dattani, Vijay Tendulkar and Girish Karnad; historical plays and stagecraft.

Postcolonial Literature

Diasporic identity, colonial legacies, national allegory and the subaltern in South Asian literature.

Women's Writing

Readings of Shashi Deshpande, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and others.

Linguistics & ELT

Applied linguistics for Indian students, English language teaching and listening skills.

Educational Technology

Learning-app design, spaced repetition and NEP 2020 in English literature pedagogy.

Selected publications

Selected Scholarly Publications

A selection of journal articles, book chapters and the doctoral dissertation. The complete record is on his academic profiles.

Journal articles

  1. 2012Image of Goddess in Mahasveta Devi, Binapani Mohanty and Lakshmi Kannan's Short Stories
    Shreelipi Journal

Chapters in edited volumes

  1. 2012Beyond National Allegory: Shashi Deshpande and Sunetra Gupta
    Indian English Fiction: Postmodern Literary Sensibility, Authorspress
  2. 2011The Theme of Woman's Search for Self-Identity in Shashi Deshpande's Selected Works
    Indian Writing in English: Speculations and Observations
  3. 2011Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss: A Tale of Domestic Abuse
    Booker Prize Winner Indian English Novels: A Kaleidoscopic Study
  4. 2011Gender in Question: Vijay Tendulkar's Silence! The Court is in Session
    Critical Essays on Indian English Poetry and Drama: Texts and Contexts
  5. 2011Transcendentalism in Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting
    Anita Desai's Fiction: Themes and Techniques

PhD dissertation

  1. 2009Treatment of History in Indian Drama in English
    PhD dissertation, Shivaji University, Kolhapur