• Director, St Aloysius Institute of Management and IT, Beeri, Mangalore (2020-2024)
• Director, Radio Sarang (2017-2023)
• Director, St Aloysius Institute of Konkani (2018-)

- Associate Professor - total teaching experience of 14 years.

a.     Area of Research presently engaged in: New Media, Community Media

b.   Minor Research Project (completed): “Students Uses and Gratifications of Newspaper, Television, and the Internet: A Comparative Study” funded by UGC 2014-16. (Rs 300,000/-)

c.    Research Project under UGC STRIDE (completed) on the topic: Konkani Marriage Literature: A comparative study of the marriage literature of Christian, Kudubi and GSB communities (Rs 3,25,000/-) – 2014-2016

d.     Principal Investigator for the major research project (ongoing) titled “The history of Konkani literature in Kannada script”, awarded by Mangalore Jesuit Education Society (MJES) (Rs 3,00,000). 2024-

• Pinto, Melwyn & Shetty, Bhavya (2025). Reimagining folk media: How Bhutakola serves as effective ritual folk medium of communication in south India. Media Asia. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2025. 2462331 (Scopus)
• Pinto, Melwyn S. (2023). Evolution of populism in Hindi cinema of Independent India: From socialist to nationalist representation. In J. Chacko Chennattuserry et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century, (pp. 1-6). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9859-0_303-1
• S. Indumathi, D. Nivedita & Pinto, M.S. (2024). Romance and Hitchcock? Viewing master of suspense as master of romance. Studies in European Cinema. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2024.2319850 (Scopus).
• Pinto, M. (2024). Community radio as alternative medium in India: Struggles and possibilities. Media Asia. https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2024.2306035 (Scopus)
• Somashekar, I & Pinto, M. S. Beyond Bollywood and Hindi: Making a case for other language films in India. Media Asia. https://doi.org/10.1080/ 01296612.2023.2243415 (Scopus).
• Pinto, M. S. (2023). Environment as Indian media’s (non)priority: Review of the book Environmental Journalism by DS Poornananda. Media Asia, 50(3), 473-478. https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2022.2144021 (Scopus).
• Pinto, M. S. (2023). Media and authoritarianism: Review of Modi’s India by C. Jaffrelot. Media Asia, 50(1), 135-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2022.2099641 (Scopus).
• Pinto, M. S. (2022). Environment as Indian media’s (non)priority: Review of the book Environmental Journalism by DS Poornananda. Media Asia. https://doi.org/ 10.1080/ 01296612.2022.2144021 (Scopus).
• Somashekar, I & Pinto, M. S. (2022). “National cinema” in India: Exploring myths and realities. Media Asia. https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2022.2104492 (Scopus).
• Pinto, M. S. (2022). Christian missionary contribution to language and press in coastal Karnataka. Mass Communicator: International Journal of Communication Studies, 16(1), 35-40.  DOI : 10.5958/0973-967X.2022.00005.9
• Pinto, M. S. (2021). Fighting lapdog journalism (review of A Rude Life by Vir Sanghvi). Media Asia. https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2021.20
• Fernandes, Anil Ivan and Pinto Melwyn S. (2020). Binge-watching behaviour Among College students: A uses and gratifications perspective. Mass Communicator, 14(4), 17-24. (ISSN: 0973-9688).
• Babu, Reshma & Pinto, Melwyn S. (2020). Coverage of environmental issues in English dailies of India; The Hindu, The Times of India and Deccan Herald. Al Shodhana, 7(2), 51-62. (ISSN: 2320-6292).
• Pinto Melwyn S. (2020). Subaltern reading of Marathi cinema. Remarkings, 19(1), 42-51. (ISSN: 0972-611X).
• Pinto Melwyn. (2019). Sahity ani vimarso – Eik nodor. Amar Konkani, 72, 40-48.
• Pinto Melwyn S. (2019). Students’ use of newspaper, television and the Internet: Measuring media displacement effect. Communicator, 55(2), 199-211. (ISSN:0588-8093).
• Pinto Melwyn S. (2018). Students’ uses and gratifications of the Internet: A comparative study. Al-Shodhana, 6(1), 19-38. (ISSN: 2320-6292).
• Pinto Melwyn S. & Poornananda D. S. (2017). The Internet uses among students: A uses and gratifications perspective. Journal of Communication: Media Watch, 8(3), 423-437. (ISSN: 0976-0911)
• Pinto Melwyn S. & Poornananda D. S. (2017). Affinity of media: importance students attach to newspaper, Television and the Internet. Mass Communicator, 11(1), 9-14. (ISSN: 0973-9688).
• Pinto Melwyn S. & Poornananda D. S. (2016). Newspapers in the age of internet and changing gratification paradigms. Communication and Journalism Research, 4(1&2), 1-10. (ISSN: 2348-5663).
• Pinto Melwyn (2016). The Internet and ‘digital divide’. Re-Markings, 15(1), 49-58.
• Pinto Melwyn (2011). Have we failed democracy? Integral Liberation, June-September.
• Pinto Melwyn (2012). BJP rule and integral development in the State. In Ambrose Pinto (Ed.). Five Years of saffron rule in Karnataka. New Delhi: Manak Publications. (ISBN:978-93-7831-330-1)

Book Chapters

• Pinto, Melwyn S. (2024). Cyber ethical concerns in education: An overview. In Noronha, K. Ethical issues in life and ministry: Conference proceedings (pp. 110-117). ISPCK Delhi. (ISBN: 978-81-19434-71-8).
• Pinto, Melwyn S. (2023). Evolution of populism in Hindi cinema of Independent India: From socialist to nationalist representation. In J. Chacko Chennattuserry et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century, (pp. 1-6). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9859-0_303-1
• Pinto Melwyn (2016). Encounter with ‘Women of God’: A journey from real to reel. In Maratt Mythili Anoop &Varun Gulati (Eds). Scripting dance in contemporary India. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. (ISBN: 978-14985-0551-2).
• Pinto Melwyn (2012). BJP rule and integral development in the State. In Ambrose Pinto (Ed.). Five Years of saffron rule in Karnataka. New Delhi: Manak Publications. (ISBN:978-93-7831-330-1)

a.     Minor Research Project (completed): “Students Uses and Gratifications of Newspaper, Television, and the Internet: A Comparative Study” funded by UGC 2014-16. (Rs 300,000/-)

b.     Research Project under UGC STRIDE (completed) on the topic: Konkani Marriage Literature: A comparative study of the marriage literature of Christian, Kudubi and GSB communities (Rs 3,25,000/-) – 2014-2016

c.      Principal Investigator for the major research project (ongoing) titled “The history of Konkani literature in Kannada script”, awarded by Mangalore Jesuit Education Society (MJES) (Rs 3,00,000). 2024-

·       Completed Nurturing Future Leadership Programme under Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Programme of UGC organised by SPJINM, Mumbai from 24-3-2025 to 28-3-2025.

·   Completed the NEP 2020 Orientation & Sensitisation Programme under Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Programme of UGC organised by Calicut University from 20-5-2024 to 29-5-2024.

·       Served as a resource person in the UGC sponsored Refresher Course in Media Studies (interdisciplinary) being conducted by the HRDC from 23-01-2020 to 05-02-2020 at Calicut University campus. He handled a three hour session on 28-01-2020 on the topic 'Evolution of community radio in India: Past, present and future’.

 Attended ICSSR-IMPRESS two-day international interdisciplinary conference on ‘Regional Cinema of India’, organised by the Department of Hindi, K M Agarwal College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Kalyan, Mumbai and presented a paper titled “Subaltern Reading of Marathi Films” on September 20-21, 2019.

Attended the 13th International Conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR), in Amsterdam, Netherlands presented a paper titled “Role of Community Radios in Democratic Participation in India”, in the Paper Session titled ‘Initiatives, Influences and Advancement’ on Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Presented paper titled “Affinity of Media: Importance students attach to newspaper, television and the Internet” at the International conference titled “Mass Mediated Culture and Trends Today: challenges and Opportunities”, on November 7, 2015 at Xavier School of Communications, Xavier University, Odissa.

Presented paper titled “Students uses and gratifications of the Internet: A comparative study” at Media Meet 2017: New Media Expressions, Department of Media Studies, Christ University, Bengaluru on July 28, 2017.

- Editor of Konkani peer-reviewed journal MJES Journal of Amar Konkani (ISSN: 3048-6890 (Print))