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• Research Excellence Award by the Municipality of Thodupuzha in August 2021
• Received A grade in HDS3221.5x: Hinduism Through Its Scriptures a course of study offered by HarvardX, an online learning initiative of Harvard University in 2020
• Received A grade in HUM12.1x: Ancient Master Pieces a course of study offered by HarvardX, an online learning initiative of Harvard University in 2020
• Received A grade in HUM12x: Master Pieces of World Literature a course of study offered by HarvardX, an online learning initiative of Harvard University in 2020
• Guest Lecturer in the Department of Arts, Kerala Kalamandalam Deemed university, Trichur Kerala, India from July 2012 – March 2014
Courses taught:
BA (Arts): Course on English for Communication
• Guest Lecturer in the Department of English, St. Stephen’s College, uzhavur, Kerala, June 2014- July 2014
Courses taught:
BA English: A component of the paper Communication Skills – Introduction: Literature in English II: Prose
• Assistant Professor, Department of English, Newman College, Thodupuzha affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala,India, February 2014 to the present
Courses teaching:
MA Programme
Literature of English Renaissance, Literature and Gender, New Literatures in English, Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama, Literary Theory and Criticism, Cultural Studies, Text Body and Performance and Postcolonial Literature
BA Programme
English Common Course: Communication Skills, Literature and as Identity, Twentieth Century Verse, English literary criticism, Classics of World Literature, British Literary History, Dalit Literature and Postcolonial Literature
Sl No: Name Title of the Thesis Degree Awarded/Submitted
1 Clint Peter Roy Imagined religions: Constructing New Atheism in Select Postmodern Fiction
Degree Awarded
2 Ashrafsha C.M Re-Reading Multiculturalism: A Foucauldian Reading Select Canadian Narratives Degree Awarded
3 Rasuna M Rasheed Constructing the Female Muslim Self: A Study of Gender and Sexuality in Select South Asian Fiction Degree Awarded
4 Hrudya Joly Memoir as Medicine: A Biopolitical Reading on the Narratives of Annie Ernaux Progressing
5 Karishma Suresh A Posthumanist Reconceptualization of Haute Coutre Fashion and Fashion Shows: A Thing Theory Reading Select Works of Select Designers Progressing
Programme: M.A. English
Number of Students supervised: 14
Number of Students secured A grade: 14
• Member, Expert Committee for Undergraduate Courses of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
• Member, Board of Studies for Under Graduate Courses of the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
• Member, Expert Committee for the 4-year B.A. English Literature (Honours) progamme, Rajagiri College for Social Sciences, (Autonomous) Ernakulam
• Question Paper Setter of M.A. English Programme from 2021 onwards
• Member of Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala, India
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal for Postcolonial Studies (IJPCL), A peer reviewed, refereed biannual Journal published by the Department of English, Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala, India
• Secretary of Planning Board, Newman College, Thodupuzha
• Secretary of Building Committee, Newman College, Thodupuzha
• Member of Library Advisory Board, Newman College, Thodupuzha
• Member, Research promotion committee, Newman College, Thodupuzha
• Member of Magazine editorial board, Newman College, Thodupuzha
• Staff Editor of College Magazine, Newman college, Thodupuzha
• Convenor, Monthly Lecture Series conducted by Newman College, Thodupuzha in memory of John Henry Cardinal Newman
• Convenor, Foundation Day Lecture, Newman College, Thodupuzha
• Quiz Master of Litt Regatta, an Intercollegiate Annual English Literary Quiz Competition organized by the department of English, Newman College, Thodupuzha
• Convenor, Film and Dramatic Club, Newman College, Thodupuzha
• Question Paper Question Paper Setter and Examiner for MA English Examination,Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam Kerala, 2020 and 2021
• Examiner for BA English Project Evaluation and Viva Voce Examination of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, from 2015 onwards
• Question paper setter for PhD Course Work Examination of Calicut University, Kerala
• Question Paper Setter and Examiner for MA English programme of Mar Athanasious College (Autonomous), Kothamangalam, Kerala
• Member, Annual/NAAC Reports Committee (2014 – )
• Editor, News Letter, Newman College, Thodupuzha
• Director, Newman Human Resource Development Centre, Newman College, Thodupizha
• Convenor, Research Scholar’s Forum, Newman College, Thodupuzha
Books (Sole Author)
• Detective Fiction: The Text and Context. Newman Books, Mumbai: 2016. (ISBN-978-81-942381-8-8)
Books (co-authored)
• La La Laughter. Mainspring Publishers, Chennai. 2024 (ISBN 978-81-9558111-8-2)
• English for Science. Orient BlackSwan. Chennai. 2024 (ISBN 9789354427794)
• Train Track and Tales. Notion Press, Chennai. 2024 (ISBN 979-8894468310)
Chapters in Books
• “Mapping Minds: Emotional Cartography in Padmarajan Films” Refocusing Padmarajan Films. Ed. BijuIttukkaparakkal. Edinburgh University Press 2022 Forthcoming
• “Fort/Da SreepadBhat”p. 62-64 Ajathasatru. Ed. Shanthi.M. ISBN: 978-93-94600-74-4
Urate, Panaji
• “Parables of the Past: The Political Chronotopes in Czeslaw Milosz‟s Poems”.Peryferie Milozsa. Ed. Pod Redacja and MarkaBernackiego. ATH, Oklada. 2020. P. 118-128. ISBN 978-83 66249-47-9
• “Spaces in S. Joseph’s Poetry” p.151-155. Linguistic Kaleidoscope: Celebrating Azadi Ka AmritMahotsav.Ed. Bulbul Gupta. New Delhi, SarvaBhasha Trust. ISBN-978-93-93605-96-2
Research papers published in refereed/peer reviewed Journals
• Issue Editor, Media, Technology and Democracy, Special Issue of Newman and Society, a biannual journal published by Newman College, Thodupuzha. Sept. 2016 ISSN 2231-6698
• Issue Editor, Innovative Pedagogical Approaches Special Issue of Newman and Society, March 2020 ISSN 2231-6698
• “Margins in Cinema: Some Others in Popular Malayalam Movies” The Journal Of Oriental Research Madras June 2021pp. 7-11 ISSN:022-3301
• “Stains on Letter: The American Experience of Crime and. Casting Away”. Albertian Review Vol. 4 No. 1 December 2017 ISSN 2394-3009
• “The Social Mechanism of Crime And Casting Away”: Science and Society: January 2017. pp. 161-172. ISSN 0973-0206
• “Claws of Dracula and Wounds of Empire: The Enlightened Fear of the British”. IJELLH, Nov. 2016: pp. 124-131. ISSN: 2321-7065
• “Empire Threatens Back: The Ape, Tonga and Some “Others” in Detective Narratives”. Drishti May-Oct. 2013, pp. 139-144
• “The Evils of Eve and the Falsification of Realty: The Gender Stereotypes in Detective narratives”: Proceedings of the National Seminar: Reflections on Space, Gender and Identity. Jan. 2014
Articles in Malayalam
• “Malalayala Cinemayile Bhoopadangal”: Pachakuthira Magazine, August 2020. P. 30-38
• . “MalayalaCinemayile Puthiya Kochiyum Pazhaya Kochiyum: Pachakuthira Magazine July 2016. pp.43-48
• . “Puthuthalamauryude Narma Bodham”. Pachakuthira Magazine Sept. 2014.pp.45-53
• .“KaliyumDeshavum”. Pachakuthira Magazine July 2010,pp. 40-44
• “007: Licence to Kill”: Madhyamam Weekly. June. 2008, pp.48-51
• Coordinator, One-Day workshop on Research Methodology, at Newman College, Thodupuzha on 29 August 2024
• Coordinator, One-Day Symposium on “Cultural Dimensions of Kerala-ness”23 march 2023
• Coordinator, One-Day Symposium on “Perceiving the Scene and Foretelling the Rest: Fortune Telling as the Political” on 25th Nov 2022
• Coordinator, One-Day symposium on Translation and/as Language on 21 July 2022
• Organizing Secretary, Webinar on “Gastronomic Interjections: Understanding the Representation of Food in Popular Narratives” on 27 Nov. 2021
• Organizing Secretary, Webinar on “(Un) Conscious Negotiation and Subterranean Tendency in the Tangible Case of Cultural Studies” on 25 Sept. 2021
• Organizing Secretary, Webinar on “Trigger Warnings in Imagination: Teaching Literature to a Woke Classroom” on 31 July 2021
• Organizing Secretary, Webinar on “Literary Studies and Changing Paradigms of Education in India” on 13 August 2020
• Organizing Secretary, NAAC Sponsored 2 Day National Seminar on “Innovative Pedagogical Approach and Enhancement of Students’ participation in Teaching Learning Process” on 5 and 6 March 2020
• Organizing Secretary, One-Day symposium on “Research in Literature: Changing paradigms” on 9 March 2018 at Newman College, Thodupuzha
• Coordinator, Kathakali Demonstration and performance sponsored by DSS, M.G University on 9th Aug. 2017
• Coordinator, Workshop on Learning in Digital Age sponsored by DSS, M.G. university on 1 Sept. 2017
• Organizing Secretary, one-Day Symposium on “Text and Theory” on 3rd Nov. 2016
• Joint-coordinator of Two UGC sponsored national seminars on Cultural Studies and Ecology conducted by the department of English, Newman College, Thodupuzha.
• Organising Secretary, UGC sponsored National Seminar on “Media, Technology and Democracy” October 2015 held at Newman College, Thodupuzha
• Session on motional Texts and Textual Emotions: Poetics of Cognitive Practices, International Seminar, 14, 15 March 2023
• Session on “Voicing the Region: The Regional Turn in Cultural Studies” International Conference, 12 Jan 2021, Newman College, Thodupuzha
• Session on “Singularities International Online Conference on Love”, 11 Jan. 2021, Unity Women’s College, Manjery
• Session on “Cultural Production and Transnational Identity”International conference, 7 Sept. 2021 Department of English, Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha
• Session on “Myth, Folklore and History: Revisiting Cultural and Literary Traditions 15 and 16 Jan. 2020”. Department of English, Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha.
• Session on “Articulating Silences: Indigenous Narratives as Resistance” 13. Dec. 2019, Chellammal’s Women’s College, Chennai.
• Session on “Processing the Popular: Exploring the Cultural and Political Spaces in Contemporary Popular Culture”, 14-15 Feb. 2019, Newman College, Thodupuzha
• Session on “Post-Truth: Contemporary Fiction and Associated Paradigms” 13 and 14 Nov. 2018, Sri, AchuthaMenon Memorial Government College, Trichur, Kerala
Plenary Address by Invitation:
• Chief Guest, Malayalam Association, St, Peter’s College, Kolenchery on 13, Oct. 2023
• The Quizzard of BCM, Quiz Master, All Kerala Intercollegiate Quiz Competition, 18 Oct. 2022
• Invited lecture orgnaized by JRC, PCNGHSS, Mookuthala on 18, Sept.2021
• “In Search of Insights: planning Academic Projects, Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha Feb 23, 2022
• “In Search of Insights: planning Academic Projects”, Research Methodology Workshop, Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha Feb 23, 2022
• Inzio 2022. Induction Programme for PG Students. Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha13 Sept. 2022
• “The Literature of Small Things”: Inaugural Address Vedika Cultural Platform SreeNarayana College of Teacher Education, Muvattupuzha Feb. 2 , 2022
• “The Literature of Small Things”: Inaugural Address Vedika Cultural Platform. SreeNarayana College of Teacher Education, Muvattupuzha 2 Feb. 2022
• Stardom and Masculinities in Cinema. Plenary Talk@ Film Festival. Newman College, Thodupuzha, Aug. 4 2022
• To Chronicle 100 Years of Teresian Legacy, History Writeshop. St. Theresa’s College, Ernakulam, 27. Jul. 2022
• “Constructing Detective: Anxieties of Agatha Christie”. at School of Letters on 18-11-2021
• “Know Your Stage”: Theatre Workshop at St. Marys’ College, SulthanBathery, 19, 20 Nov. 2021
• “Lingo and Libido of the Land: Reimagining the (M) Other” in the Lecture Series conducted by Baselious College Kottayam on 10-11- 2020
• “The Art of Research Writing”. Mahatma Gandhi College, Thiruvananthapuram on 27-02-2020.
• “Gender: the Questions of Identity” in a Seminar organized by NSS Unit, Govt. GHSS, Thodupuzha, 14-7-2019
• “Postcolonialialism at Close Readings: D Vinayachandran Memorial Lecture Series” on 27th Feb. 2019 organized by School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
• “Engendering the Popular: The Paradigms of Gender Subordination in Culture Industry”. Keynote Address, National Seminar Conducted by the Dept. Of Philosophy, Maharaja’s Govt. Autonomous College, Ernakulam on 5th Oct. 2017
• “Female Sensibilities in Contemporary Fiction” in the National Seminar organized by Mary Succours College for Women. Tanjore, on 23rd Feb. 2016
Paper Presentations through abstract submission:
National Conferences (Held in India)
• Constructing “Other” in Popular Malayalam Films on 13. Dec. 2019 at Chellammal’s Women’s College, Chennai.
• “American Experience of Crime and Casting Away” in a UGC sponsored National Seminar at BCM College, Kottayam on 17th Jan. 2016.
• “Humour and Society” at National Seminar conducted by National Book Trust of India on 12th Jan. 2015
• Content Maker of Online Study Materials for KSHEC, Govt. of Kerala in 2020
• Resource person for the summer school for under-privileged students organized by the Department of English, Newman College, Thodupuzha, 2014 onwards
• Resource Person for the Theatre Workshop at School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala from 27-Dec. 2020 to 1-Jan. 2021
• . Participated a workshop on Epistemological shifts and Research in Humanities Organized by Kerala Higher Education Council from 11th to 17th Feb. 2018
• Resource Person for the 21 day Residential Training in Communicative English and Basic IT Skills as part of (Additional Skill Acquisition Programme) ASAP in May, 2015
• Participated in the Residential Train the Trainer Programme for Master Trainer of ASAP, Govt. Of Kerala from 24t-27 March 2015
• Reviewer
o A member of the judging panel for Annual Arts Festival held at Newman College, Thodupuzha, 2014-onwards
o A member of the annual Exhibition contest conducted by Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha.
• Professional Development
• Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Bridging Disciplines’ organised by the Faculty Development Centre of the Kerala State Higher Education Council, scheduled from 20th to 24th May 2024
• Coordinator, Mahatma Gandhi Board of Studies for English is organizing a five-day workshop as part of the Four Year Undergraduate Program(FYUGP) from Nov. 14 to 18
• Participated Refresher course in English conducted by HRDC, NEHU from 1 Sept-15 September 2023 obtained Grade ‘A+
• Participated Refresher course in English conducted by HRDC, Central University of Hyderabad from 7th to 27th December, 2018 obtained Grade ‘A’
• Participated General Orientation Course conducted by HRDC, Central University of Hyderabad from 23rd -Nov. 21st Dec-2016 and obtained Grade ‘A’
Membership of Boards/Associations
• Member, Board of Studies, for UG programme in English, M.G. university, Kottayam
• Mentor, Walk with a Scholar, Govt. Of Kerala
• Member FLAIR Programme, Govt. Of Kerala
• .Member, Kerala Archives, Govt. of Kerala
• Member, Cochin Film Society
• Member, Thodupuzha Film Society
Theatre and Performance
• Adapted and Directed Romeo and Juliet at Newman College, Thodupuzha on 5th March 2024
• Composed, Directed and produced A Play, DA based on The Waste land as part of its Centenary Celebration on 25 Nov. 2022 at Newman College, Thodupuzha
• Writer and Actor of the Play Samoosayum Gereniumpookkalum staged at School of Letters on 1 January 2021 as part of the commemoration of Prof. G. SankaraPillai
• Rewritten and Directed Macbeth as part of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Dept. Of English, Newman College, Thodupuzha on 3rd Feb. 2017
• Conducted M.G. University DSS sponsored Kathakali workshop for the Students of Newman College, on 9.Aug, 2017
• Team manager, National youth Festival held at Sivaji University, Kolapur, from 10-14, Feb. 2017
• Anchored the video footage of an education reality show, HarithaVidyalayam for Doordarshan, the national channel of India 2011
• Acted in three renowned plays by leading playwright and scenarist, P. Balachandran (Orumadhyavenalpranayaravu, (A midsummer Love Night)AvatharanamBhranthalayam (Presented by a Mental Assylum)andSamarayilekku ( To Samara)) 2008, 2009 and 2012
• Content Writer for Children’s Supplement Chocolate published by Deepika Daily
On Deputation for Government of Kerala/India
• Counting Officer, General Elections to the Parliament of India 2024
• Presiding Officer, General Elections to Parliament of India 2024
• Special Officer, Covid-19 War Room at Marangatupilly Local Self Government, Kerala, from 22-5-2021 to 21-6-2021
• Counting Officer, General Elections to Kerala Legislative Assembly 2021
• Presiding Officer, General Elections to Kerala Legislative Assembly 2021
• Special Poling Officer for Covid-19 patients in the general Elections to Local Self Government Bodies of Kerala in 2020
• Presiding Officer, General Elections to the parliament of India, 2019
• Presiding Officer, General Elections to Kerala Legislative Assembly 2016
