Sai Krishna TERA 98, Thirumullavaram, Kolam 691012

Teaching of English, Contemporary Fiction, Critical Theory Creative Writing and Film Studies

Major/Minor Research Projects

UGC Minor Research Project  “World Cinema Today” (2009-2011)

• Head of the Department at MMNSS College Kottiyam
• Coordinator, IQAC at MMNSS College, Kottiyam

Select Publications – Books/Chapters/Journals

• “Changed Times Changing Voices: Contemporary Malayalam Poetry” in Malayalam Literary Survey (English) published by Kerala Sahitya Academy in the year 2009.
• O.V. Vijayan’sThalamurakal : Social Discrimination and the Quest for Identity.” In Malayalam Literary Survey (English) published by Kerala Sahitya Academy in the year 2010
• “Postmodernism of Joseph Heller” Published in TELES. ISBN: 9789381423004 Published by Muslim Arts College, Thiruvithancode 2012
• “Military as Surrogate Identity: John Gray’s Billy Bishop Goes to War and O.V. Vijayan’sThalamurakal” in Encounter and Identity: Perspectives on Indo-Canadian Studies” Edited by Jacob George (Prestige Books , New Delhi, 2001) ISBN 81-7551-105-2
• “Redefining Binaries: A Study of the Films of Kim Ki Duk” English Activities Updatev 5 No2 12/2014
• “Gender Equations, Sexual Politics and Performativity in the Films of Pedro Almodovar” Journal of Literature and Aesthetics Vol 16 No2 12/2016
• “Entropic Fiction and its Narrative Strategy: A Perspective on the Ministry of Utmost Happiness” Journal of Literature and Aesthetics July 2017
• Body as Revolt: The Myth of Nageli, the Woman who Covered her BreastShynlax International Journal of English V9N4 SEP 2021.
• Cinema of Resistance: YawarMallku: La Sangire del Condor as Third Cinema.Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal Vol. 11, Issue-I, January 2022.
• Tales of the Rails: An Analysis of SamparkaKranti.Malayalam Literary Survey:  2022 Jan-March.
• Contesting for a Queer Space: Homosexual Frames in Andrew Haigh’s The WeekendChalachitraSameeksha, a Kerala Chalachitra Academy publication  Feb 2023.

Major Seminar Presentations

Key Note Address:

• UGC Sponsored Two-Day National Seminar  onTranslation: Text in context 14 & 15 September 2012 Organised by Department of English, Union Christian College, Aluva
• Government First Grade College Koratagere (Tumkur) Karnataka

Invited Lecture

• Third Cinema at BJM Govt College, Chavara January 2015
• Research Methodology at Maharajas College, Ernakulam 2015

International Seminars:

• “ Military as Surrogate Identity: John Gray’s Billy Bishop Goes to War and O.V. Vijayan’sThalamurakal“ organized by Centre for Canadian Studies at Union Christian College, Alwaye, 2000.

Major National Seminars

• “Dynamics of Black Humour: Joseph Heller’s Catch-22” organized by USIS, August 1998.
• “Subversion of the Military: Joseph Heller’s Catch-22” St Domnics College, 1999.
• “The Internet Female”: All Saints College, 2011.
• “Not a Syllable to be Seen: Dalit Poetry in Malayalam" NSS College, Ottapalam, 2011.
• “Fishing in Troubled Waters: Pollution and Human Rights Violation” NSS College, Changanacherry, 2011. 

National Symposium

• “We-Media: The Polemics of Empathetic Interferences in Participatory Media.” NSS College, Nemmara 2012 . March 13, 2012 A.N. Session

• Creative writing from University of East Anglia, London
• Book Publishing from National Book Trust, New Delhi

• 2015- NATIONAL AWAR (MHRD) UGC RESEARCH AWARD (with two years fellowship)
• Fellowship Committee Member (Kerala Chalachitra Academy) 2019-2021

Details of PhD Scholars Awarded

1. Vidya.S (27/2/2012) “Al-sufurWal-hijab (Unveiling/Veiling): Representation of Women in Select Arab Movies. (university of Kerala)
2. Ganesh S Topic: “Subverting the Glazed Gaze: A Study of the Movies of Pedro Almodovar “
3. Indu VS Topic: “Relocating Gender, Subverting Patriarchy: A Study of the Films of Kim Ki-duk.”
4. Sree Prasad R: “Conceptualizing the Quest, Ethics and Individuation in Contemporary Multiculturalism: A Comparative Study of the Select Novels ofCaryl Phillips, Doris Lessing, J.M.Coetzee and Zadie Smith.”
5. Sithara G: “What Lies Beneath: Narrative Patterns in Select Hollywood Horror Movies“