Areas of Research

Cultural Studies.

Contributions to Teaching:

As a teacher, I would prefer critical pedagogy as against the banking method of education. Prior to my joining here, I served as a teacher for more than 20 years and as Principal for 6 years in Fatima Mata National College (Autonomous), Kollam. As the Chairman of the Academic Council and Secretary to the Governing Council of the College, I became instrumental in bringing about paradigmatic shift from teacher centric to student oriented learning, the pedagogy augmented by ICT enabled, OBE focused and mentoring systems in the institution .

The several papers presented in the International and National Conferences and the Invited lectures have provided inputs to the academic community in particular and to the society at large.

Research & Projects

UGC Research Awardee 2012-2015.

PhD Awarded – 2, PhD Ongoing - 4

1. “A Tenuous We of All: A Biopolitics of COVID 19.” Singularities,vol.7, no.2, July 2020, pp.27-33.
2. “Representation and Resistance: A Chomskian Paradigm.” Gandhigram Literary Review, vol.5, Summer, 2016, pp.31-45.
3. “Conjunctural Identities and Lived Realities: Amartya Sen on Identity and Difference.” TJES Teresian Journal of English Studies, vol.5, no.1, Oct 2013, pp.22-31.
4. “Discovering the Nation: India in the Works of Amartya Sen”. Littcrit, vol.39, no.2, June 2013, pp.210-14.
5. “Ontopological Gravity and Idyllic Chronotopes: A Postecolonial Reading of Narayan’s Kocharethi.” Indian Journal of Postcolonial Literatures, vol.13, no. 1, June 2013, pp.75-85.
6. “Post 9/11- Terror, Horror and Humanity: What is at Stake?.” Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, vol.12, no.2, July-Dec 2012, pp.56-60.
7. “Alterity in Multicultural Glocal: Market, Migration and Media.” Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, vol.11, no.1-2, Jan-Dec 2011, pp. 56-60.
8. “From Page to Stage: Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions.” Littcrit, vol.37, no.2, Dec 2011, pp.89-94.
9. “Con(temporary) Cultural Condition: Towards an Ethics of Com(promises).” TJES Teresian Journal of English Studies, vol.3, no.1, Oct 2011, pp.8-14.
10. “Self and Society: Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain.” Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, vol.10, no.1-2, Jan-Dec 2010, pp.21-24.
11. “Imagining the Past: Personal and Political Anchoring in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.” Littcrit, vol.35, no.1-2, June-Dec 2009, pp.62-68.
12. “Violent Geographies and Bruised Bodies: Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns.” TJES Teresian Journal of English Studies, vol.1, no.1, Oct 2009, pp.54-60.
13. “The Crisis of Contemporary Cultural Vignettes: Gita Mehta’s Karma Cola and Snakes and Ladders.” The New Frontier, no. 4-5, 2008, pp.16-24.
14. “The Subaltern can Speak?: Bama’s Sangati as a Chronicle of a Caste.” Indian Journal of Post Colonial Literatures, no.10, Jan-June 2008, pp.66-73.
15. “The Birth of a Prophet.” Trans. Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, vol. 8, no.1-2, Jan-Dec 2008, pp.321-326.