Avishek Ray teaches at the National Institute of Technology Silchar. He is the author of The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination: Representation, Agency & Resilience (Routledge, 2021) and co-editor of Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India, released by SAGE in 2020.

Ray's research has been featured in various esteemed journals, including South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Contemporary South Asia, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, Tourism, Culture & Communication, among others. He has been a research fellow at several prestigious institutions worldwide, such as the University of Edinburgh, Purdue University Library, and the University of Minnesota.

Currently, Ray is focusing on two co-authored book projects, namely "Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India" and a work tentatively titled "Networked Mobilities in the Wake of the Pandemic: Remediating Calcutta," both under contract with Routledge.
In 2021, his academic excellence was recognized with the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship.