Sanjay Kumar

Sanjay Kumar is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Academic Writing. Sanjay holds a PhD in English Literature.
(Research Topic: Theatricality and urban space in contemporary India )(2009)from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He has 25 years of university teaching experience in courses related to the English language, Literature, and Culture, as well as Effective Communication Skills and linguistics. His global teaching experience includes international technical universities and premier Business schools in India, including the National Institute of Technology (NIT) and the Indian Institute of Management (IIM). He was an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Modern Philology at Selye János University, Slovakia, and the International Business School (IBS) in Budapest. He also taught English and Academic Writing to undergraduate, graduate students, and doctoral researchers at Corvinus University, Budapest. He was the Director of Studies (DoS) for the Pre-Academic Summer School for the Open Society Foundation (OSF) New York's Civil Society Leadership Scholarship (CSLA) awardees, at Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 2025 and 2016, and as DoS, piloted the OSF Summer Pre-Academic Program at Syracuse University, USA, in July 2017.

From December 2023 to July 2025, Sanjay was appointed Academic Co-Director of CEU's new University Access and Preparatory Programs. In this role, he co-designed and piloted CEU's pioneering school support initiative in Vienna, Austria—the Matura Support Program (MSP) for high school students in Austria.

He is also a member of the Committee for Adjudicating Academic Dishonesty of the Department of Public Policy (SPP).

In November 2022, Sanjay served as Chair of the CEU PU Senate NVE (Nomination, Voting, Election, and Counting committee) to oversee and conduct the first online Senate elections of CEU PU in Vienna.

From August 1, 2022, to July 31, 2024, Sanjay was a Project Co-Leader at the OSUN Network (11 international universities) level of the OSUN-funded project Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (EHCN). He also taught and represented CEU for the OSUN Network Collaborative course, "DigitalTheatres," for the BA CPS program, alongside five other institutions in Africa, the US, Europe, and the UK.

Sanjay served as Chair of the CEU Senate Library Committee for two terms, from 2017 to 2020 and from 2020 to 2023.