Dr.  Mohan works as an Assistant Professor at Centre for English Language and Development (CELD), School of Educational Studies (SES), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. Previously, he worked as Guest Faculty at the Centre for English Language Studies (CELS), University of Hyderabad and as an Assistant Professor at Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State. His broad areas of research interest include New Literatures in English, Cultural Studies, and English Language Education. His research also focuses on academic discourse for first-generation learners, Dalit and Adivasi narratives in higher education, and tribal education and development.

In 2010, he visited the University of Cambridge, UK and was part of the World Oral Literature Project. He received DAAD Fellowship to work at Techniche Univesitat Dresden, Germany in 2011. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow (Visiting Scholar) at the Department of the South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA in 2016. In 2019, his research work was made it into final for Blue Rising Scholarship and designated for “Honorable Mention” by Brandeis University, MA, USA.

In 2015, he received Nottingham Trent University Fellowship to work on “Orality, Performance and Experience”. He was the recipient of a Travel Grant Scholarship to participate and present a paper at the annual workshop on “Race and Indigeneity” organised by Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, MA, USA in 2018. Apart from presenting several papers at the national and international conferences in India, he has also presented papers at the University of Cambridge, UK, Dresden University of Technology, Germany, University of Granada, Spain, University of East Anglia, UK, California State University, LA, USA, Ireland India Institute, Dublin City University, Ireland, Princeton  University, NJ, USA and University of Paul-Valery, Montpellier -3, France.

He has recently coedited a book titled: Reimagining Marginality: Exploration, Experience, Expression. He also published his research papers in reputed journals, books and by publishers such as Routledge, California State University Press, Sage, Authors Press, Asian Quarterly, The Atlantic Literary Review, The Commonwealth Review, Literary Voice, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Contemporary Voice of Dalit and others.