Head, Departement of English

Associate Editor - Al Shodhana

16 years

Literary Theory

Popular Culture

Gender Studies

Cultural Studies 

Ø  The article ““You’re as bad as, as– as Desire! Or Worse!”: Contradicting the Abject in Sandman’s Death and Desire” was accepted for publication by MacFarland Press, North Carolina in a soon to be collection of critical essays.

Ø  Manuel Souza and Melisa Goveas, “Representation of the Womb in Select Novels of Perumal Murugan”, Al Shodana – ISSN2320 – 6292  – July 2019

Ø  The article “Subverting the Detective and Classical Crime Fiction: A Study of Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red” was published in the peer reviewed journal, Diotima’s: A Journal of New Readings, December 2014, Volume 5, ISSN 2319-4189

Ø  The article, “The Paradox of the Double Abjects: Jorge and Poetics in The Name of the Rose” was published inthe International Refereed Journal, New Academia, January 2013, Volume II Issue I, ISSN 2277-3967

Ø  The article “The Split Detectives of Postmodern Crime Fiction: A Study of Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost” was published in the International Journal, Literary Insight, January 2012 Volume, ISSN 0975-6248.

Ø  The article “Detecting of Multicultural Voices: Representation of White and Third World Females in Shashi Tharoor’s Riot” was publishedin the book Indo-English Fiction: New Perspectives, which was edited by Dr. Arvind M. Nawale and was printed and published by Aadi Publications, Jaipur. (ISBN: 978-93-80902-39-5)

Ø  Participated in the “National Level Seminar on Indian Women Poets in English” held at St. Aloysius College, 18^th February 2012

Ø  Participated in the “National Workshop on Contemporary Indian Drama” held at St. Aloysius College, Mangalore on 07 and 08 January 2011

Ø  Participated in the National Seminar on “Nationality, Language and Culture: Contestations in Contemporary Writing” held at St. Aloysius College, Mangalore on 07 and 08 January 2010 and presented a paper titled, “ Detective , Nation and Horror in Ondaatje’s, Anil’s Ghost

Ø  Participated in the “National Seminar on Subaltern Encounters in Indian Literature in English and Translation” held at St. Aloysius College, Mangalore on 07 and 08 January 2009 and presented a paper titled, “ The Detection of Multicultural Voices: White and Subaltern Females in Shashi Tharoor’s Riot

Minor Research Project was sanctioned by the UGC in May 2016 for the project titled, “The New Age Disney Princesses: Attempting Gender Sensitisation”