Dr. M. Raja Vishwanathan is Associate professor and former Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Telangana. He holds a Ph.D. in ELT from Osmania university, Hyderabad.

Prior to joining NIT Warangal, Dr. M. Raja Vishwanathan taught for a time at CIEFL, presently The English and Foreign Languages University (EFL-U), Hyderabad on the International Training Programme.He also had stints at several private engineering colleges in Hyderabad.

He is a soft skills trainer and mentor.

His research interests include ELT ( bilingualism and bilingual education, cultural politics in language teaching, and multilingual education,etc. ), American literature, British literature, Literatures in translation, Indian writing in English,etc.

He has published extensively in national and international journals and presented papers in conferences of national and international repute.
He has 8 publications in UGC CARE listed journals.

He has been guiding research in ELT and literature and three students have been awarded the PhD under his supervision.