Adhwaytham, Ithithanam, Changanacherry

Postcolonial studies, Cultural studies, Urban Studies, Film studies, Environmental Humanities

Responsibilities Undertaken

• Coordinator, Film and Media Club, 2024-’25, NSS College Cherthala
• Mentor, NPTEL Online certification Course (SWAYAM Platform) “Developing Soft skills and Personality”,  JUN- DEC. 2023, under IIT Madras.
• Member, question bank preparation/upgradation initiative, of Mahatma Gandhi University, for MA English (PG CSS) Examination, semesters 3 & 4
• Member, restructuring of Curriculum/Syllabus of Postgraduate Programme in English PG CSS, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
• Staff Editor of College Magazine, NSS Hindu College Changanacherry: 2017- ’18 & 2021- ‘22

Book Chapters

• Prasannan, Meera. “The Writer Wife Writes Back: An Appraisal of Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife.” In Writing the Female: Contemporary Indian Fiction. Akhand Publishing House, 2023. ISBN: 978-93-88688-10-9.
  Available at: web
• Prasannan, Meera, and D. Mohan. “Dynamics of Power: A Foucauldian Analysis of Power in K. R. Meera’s Hangwoman.” In Writing Lives, Rewriting Times: Mapping Women’s Responses from South Asia, pp. 75–84, 2022.
  Available at (Google Books): web
  
• Prasannan, Meera. “Distorted Transcription of the Nation: An Analysis of the ‘Humoristic’ Elements of the Malayalam Sitcom Akkara Kazhchakal.” In Translation: Literature Across the World. Authors Press, 2021.
  Available at: web
• Prasannan, Meera. “Evincing the Acculturation and Ethos of the Malayarayar Tribe in Narayan’s Kocharethi: The Araya Woman.” In Tribal Perspectives in India: Critical Responses. AABS Publishing House, 2020.
  Available at (ResearchGate): web
• Prasannan, Meera. “Shifting Identities and Cross-Cultural Conflicts in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies and Unaccustomed Earth.” In Immigration and Estrangement in Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Study. AABS Publishing House, 2019.
  Available at (Academia.edu): web

Journal Publications

• Prasannan, Meera. “Beyond the Gender Lines: A Study of Select Works of Paulo Coelho.”
  Epitome: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 9, Issue 10, October 2023, pp. 21–33. Impact Factor: SJIF 5.368 (2021).
  Available at: PDF
• Prasannan, Meera. “An Analysis of the Stylistic Techniques in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.”
  Literary Endeavour, International Peer-Reviewed Journal, UGC-CARE Listed (Journal No. 44728), Vol. X, No. 3, May 2019, pp. 322–327.
  Available at: PDF
• Prasannan, Meera. “Traces of Highbrowed Innuendo from the Epic: A Kaleidoscopic Reading of Antedated Scientific Truths in The Mahabharata.”
  Research Lines, Vol. XII, Nos. 1 & 2, June–December 2019, pp. 77–81.
• Prasannan, Meera. “The Retelling of a Myth: The Shiva Trilogy as a Twentieth-Century Tribute to Lord Shiva and His Philosophy.”
  The Quest: A Peer-Reviewed Journal of Indian Literature, UGC Listed (Journal No. 41262),
  Vol. 33, No. 2, December 2019.
• Prasannan, Meera. “Falsifying Feminine Pneuma: A Study of Draupadi in M. T. Vasudevan Nair’s Second Turn.”
  The Quest, Vol. 32, No. 2, December 2018, pp. 10–23.
• Prasannan, Meera. “Voicing the Voiceless: A Feminist Reading of Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns.”
  Baselius Researcher, Vol. XIX, No. 2, July–December 2018, pp. 89–96.
  ISSN: 0975-8658.
• Prasannan, Meera. “Unfolding Trauma through Narration: An Analysis of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.”
  Lapis Lazuli: An International Literary Journal, UGC Approved (Journal No. 41623),
  Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 2018, pp. 63–84.
  Available at: PDF
• Prasannan, Meera. “An Ecocritical Analysis of Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K.”
  Literary Endeavour, Vol. IX, Issue 3, July 2018, pp. 135–139.
  Available at: PDF
• Prasannan, Meera. “Fantasy Literature and Tolkien’s Theory on Fantasies.”
  Epitome, Vol. 4, Issue 4, April 2018, pp. 15–24.
  Impact Factor: 3.656.
  Available at: PDF
  
• Prasannan, Meera. “Mythical and Religious Prototypes in The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings.”
  Reyono: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol. 6, Issue 2, July 2017, pp. 24–34.
• Prasannan, Meera. “Fantasy as Escapism into Reality: Realistic Resonances of the Battles in Lewis’s Narnia and Tolkien’s Middle-Earth.”
  Research Scholar: An International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal of Literary Explorations,
  Vol. 5, Issue 3, August 2017.
  Available at: PDF
• Prasannan, Meera. “The Hubris of the Hero.”
  Lux Montis, Vol. 5, No. 2, July 2017, pp. 161–166.
• Prasannan, Meera. “Ecocriticism and Literature: A Close Reading.”
  Research Scholar, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2017, pp. 129–132.
  ISSN: 2249-6696.
• Prasannan, Meera. “The Wives of Henry VIII and the Women of England: A Critical Study.”
  Lux Montis, Vol. 4, No. 2, July 2016, pp. 11–18.
  ISSN: 2321-8053.
• Prasannan, Meera. “Dynamics of Power: A Study of Foucauldian Power in The Magic Toyshop.”
  Sanghashabdam, January–February 2016, pp. 57–61.
  ISSN: 2321-9106.
• Prasannan, Meera. “The Ill-Starred Queen: The Damned Existence of Anne Boleyn.”
  Baselius Researcher, Vol. XVII, No. 1, January–June 2016, pp. 1–9.
• Prasannan, Meera. “A Freudian Psychoanalytic Reading of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
  Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Research (JET), Vol. 7, 2015, pp. 26–32.
  ISSN: 2394-3874.
• Prasannan, Meera. “Identifying the Self of a Namboothiri Woman: An Analysis of Devaki Nilayamgode’s Antharjanam: Memoirs of a Namboothiri Woman.”
  Rational Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Research and Studies,
  Vol. 21, No. 1, March 2015, pp. 32–40.
  ISSN: 0972-2955.

• “The Cityscape, the City Spectator, and the Urban Environment of Bombay: A Study of Gregory David Roberts’s Shantaram.” Paper presented at the One-Day National Conference on Innovations in English Language and Literature, organized by the Department of English, Kongu Engineering College, Erode, on 7 March 2025.
• “Combating the Contagion: A Study of Select Films Portraying the Pandemic.”Paper presented at the International Seminar on Shifting Paradigms in Narratives in the Age of the Pandemic, NSS Hindu College, Changanacherry, on 6–7 April 2022.
• “From Reverence to Destruction: An Ecocritical Reading of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Resonating the Ecological Vision of the Sundarbans.”Paper presented at the International Seminar on Confronting Disaster: From Vulnerability to Resilience, NSS Hindu College, on 24–25 January 2020.
• “Identity and Memory: A Study of Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient.”Paper presented at the National Seminar on Memory Studies, SD College, on 20–21 November 2020.
• “Reconciliation and Recognition: Studying Love and Politics in Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera.”Paper presented at the National Seminar on Redefining Stereotypes: Re-reading Texts and Contexts, NSS Hindu College, on 13–14 January 2020.
• “Mapping and Remapping Nations in the Era of Post-Truth: A Reading of Michael Ondaatje’s The English Teacher.”Paper presented at the National Seminar on Post-Truth Literature: New Perspectives on Postmodern Reading, Government College, Kottayam, on 18–19 November 2019.
• “Multiculturalism and Cultural Dislocation: A Study of Diasporic Communities in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth.” Paper presented at the International Seminar on Multiculturalism in Contemporary Society: Theories and Praxis, Assumption College, on 5–6 October 2018.

• NEP–2020 Orientation and Sensitization Programme, Malaviya Mission Centre, ACE–IUCAA, July 21-29, 2025
• NPTEL FDP on Literary and Cultural Disability Studies: An Exploration, Jul-Oct. 2024
• One-Week FDP Meaningful Research and Intellectual Property Rights, Teaching Learning Centre, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi, under the aegis of Ministry of Education,
  Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching, Govt. of India, 12-18 January 2024.
• NPTEL FDP on Developing Soft Skills and Personality, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India, July- September 2023.
• 4-week Orientation program for “ Faculty in Universities/Colleges/Institutes of Higher Education, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi, under the aegis of  Ministry of Education,
  Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching,
  University of Delhi under the aegis of Ministry of Education from 18 May to 17 June 2021
• “Techno Pedagogy Tools Towards Digital Era of Teaching” University of Kerala, from 28 September 2020 to 11 November 2020