Susan Alexander

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Susan Alexander

Assistant Professor of English

Positions Held

HoD of Department of English
Coordinator NAAC committee for Innovative Practices
Faculty Advisor  CBCSS
Staff Editor- Tanha 2011-2012
Staff Editor- Musings-  2010-2011
Seminar Coordinator- UGC sponsored National Seminar on Transculturation in Contemporary British and American Poetry
Coordinator Walk with a Scholar Programme 2014-2015 & 2015-2016

Paper Publications

1.Demeter and Persephone Myth Retold: Rita Dove’s Mother Love as an Exploration of Mother Daughter Relatioship in Research Scholar ISSN 2249-6696
2.“Transition from Coastal to a Composite Culture” in Portuguese Heritage in Kerala: Some Dimensions– ISBN 978-81-924576-0-4
3.“Rita Dove’s Thomas and Beulah– Reconciling the Lyric and the Narrative for an Articulation of the Historical and the Autobiographical” in English Language and Literature Across Cultures– ISBN 978-81-923897-0-7
4.Editor of Transculturation in Contemporary British and American Poetry ISBN 978-93-5137-304-9
5.“Ecological Advocacy in Twentieth Century American Films” in Re-tracking the Celluloid: History, Politics and Popular Culture in Films ISBN 978-81-928481-0-5
6. Synergizing Teaching –Learning: Constructivist Paradigms in English Language Teaching ISBN 9789381423004
7. From Rural Morality to Urban Ethics: Unravelling the Mordant Wit in Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger in Humour Texts, Contexts ISBN 978-81-8043-117-3
8. Changing Topographical Segments in Referential Reality: Nature as Culture in Twentieth Century American Literature in Journal of Teacher Learner and Researcher ISSN: 0973-3957
9. Environmental Paradigms in Contemporary Australian Poetry in Journal of Teacher, Learner and Society ISSN 2348-8409

10. Topistics and Environmental Changes since colonisation in OodgerooNoonuccals The Dawn is at Hand in Indian Journal of Post Colonial Literatures ISSN 0974-7370

11. “‘Plurality of Influences.’ Australian Poetry of the Twentieth Century.” Indian Journal of Postcolonial Literatures1 (2017): 65-72. Print. (ISSN 0974-7370)

12.“The Aboriginal Perspective of History in Poetry: The Canadian Experience.” International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities12 (2017): 315- 319. Print. (ISSN 2321-7065).

13. “Parallel Plights: Ecocide and Genocide in Jack Davis’ “Forest Giant.”” Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies33 (2017):527-531. Print. (ISSN 2278-8808).

14.“Emblematizing Hope, Inspiration and the Call to Reconsider: Australian Flora, Fauna and Land in Judith Wright.” Scholarly Research Journal for Humanity Science & English Language 25 (2018): 6936- 6940.  4 Feb. 2018. Web. (E-ISSN 2348-3083)

15. Intertwining of History of the Land and Aboriginal History in Poetry in IJELLH 5.6 (2018): 81-87. Web.

Paper Presentation

1.Manifestations of Rasa in Girish Karnad’s Nagamandala at the National Seminar on Rasanubhava and Post Independence Indian Drama- at the UGC Sponsored National Seminar organized by the Department of English St Cyril’s College, Adoor on 2,3,4 December 2009
2.Transition from a Coastal to a Composite Culture: The Impact of the Portuguese – presented at the UGC Sponsored national Seminar organised by the Dept. Of History, St. Cyril’s College, Adoor on 12-10-2010
3. Human Rights- The Role of Youth at the National Seminar on Human Rights- sponsored by The Institute of Parliamentary Affairs and organized by the Department of English, St. Cyril’s College Adooron 21,22 Nov. 2011
4.Kathakali and Koodiyattom- Glimpses into the Cultural Heritage of Kerala at the National Seminar on Koodiyattom sponsored by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Kendra Sangeet Natak Academy , New Delhi and organized by the Department of English, St. Cyril’s College Adoor on 10 Nov. 2011.
5.“Rita Dove’s Thomas and Beulah– Reconciling the Lyric and the Narrative for an Articulation of the Historical and the Autobiographical” at Literature Across Cultures- National Conference Organized by The Journal of English Language and Literature and The Department of English, St. John’s College, Palayamkottai. Tamil Nadu on 2,3 April, 2012
6.The Poetics of Place- W.S. Merwin’s The Rain in the Trees at Transculturation in Contemporary British and American Poetry– UGC sponsored National Seminar organized by the Department of English, St. Cyril’s College Adoor on 12,13 Aug.2013
7.“Mythical Re-reading of Contemporaneity- Rita Dove’s Mother Love and Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife” at Reading Literature in the Contemporary Critical Paradigm– UGC sponsored National Seminar organized by the Post Garduate Department of English, Bishop Moore College, Mavelikkara on 13,14 August 2013
8. “Ecological Advocacy in Twentieth Century American Films” at the UGC sponsored National Seminar cum Workshop on Re-tracking the Celluloid: History, Politics and Popular Culture in Films at NSS College, Pandalam on 24,25,26 October, 2013
9. From Rural Morality to Urban Ethics: Unravelling the Mordant Wit in Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger at the International Seminar on Humour- Texts and Contexts organised by the Department of Humanities Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology IIST Thiruvananthapuram on 7,8 Dec 2013
10. Synergizing Teaching –Learning: Constructivist Paradigms in English Language Teaching- International Seminar on Innovation and Best Practices held at Muslim College of Education, Thiruvithancode, Tamil Nadu on 24,25 January 2014.
11. The Road Not Taken- Energy Conservation Strategies as seen in the works of Wendell Berry and Amory B. Lovins at the UGC sponsored National Seminar on Energy Crises: Problems and Prospects in the Age of India Liberalisation organised by the Dept of Economics, St Cyrils College, Adoor on 20,21 February 2014
12. Changing Topographical Segments in Referential Reality: Nature as Culture in Twentieth Century American Literature at the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Science, Engineering, Business and Disaster Management ICBDM-2014 organized by the Department of Human Resource Management in association with IEEE Madras section ED chapter and ISTE India at Noorul Islam University on 28 February 2014.
13.Topistics and the Changing Environment in Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s The Dawn at Hand at the National Seminar on Understanding Aboriginal Australia organized by the  UGC Area Centre for Australian Studies. Institute of English, University of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram on 8, 9 Januray 2015
14. Environmental Paradigms in Contemporary Australian Poetry at the Multi Disciplinary International Conferance held at Muslim College of Education , Thiruvithancode, Tamil Nadu on 9,10 March 2015
15. Shifting Student Demographics and Delivery Preferences: Impact of Distance Education on the Traditional Mode of Education (Invited Talk) at the Symposium on Higher Education organized by the Kerala Higher Education Commisssion on 17 October 2015.
16. Ignored voices, Intimate Experiences: Place as Experience in Contemporaray Poetry at the UGC sponsored National Seminar on Voices from Borderlands: Emerging Literatures, Ignored Voices, Silenced Uproars and Evolving Theoretical Perspectives organized by the Department of English St Stephen’s College, Pathanapuram on 15, 16 October 2015.
17. Anatomizing Contaminated Communities represented in Contemporary Australian and American Poetry at the International Festival organized by the International Journal for Arts and Science at Harvard Medical School, Boston USA on 23-27 March, 2016
18.Eastern Culturation of the West: Buddhism and the Antipodean LAndcape in Robert Gray’s “North Coast Town”at the National seminar organized by the Centre for Australian Studies, Institute of English, University of Kerala, Tvm on 27-28 October 2016

19. Poetry and the Vision of Nature: A Reading of Select American Nature writers at the Two day UGC sponsored National seminar organised by the Dept. of English St Cyril’s College Adoor on 3,4 Nov 2017

20.Yoking Forest History and Cultural History in Australian Aboriginal writings in the UGC recognised International conference organised by the Association for Scientific and Cultural Research in collaboration with Cochin University of Science and Technology on 24, 25 February 2017

21.Lyrical Intensity and Ecological Activism: A Reading of the Select Poems of Judith Wright at the National Conference on twentieth Century Women Poets organised by MGR University and Research Centre, Chennai

22.Exodus: Soteriological Hermeneutics and Space in Diaspora at the National Seminar on Diaspora: The Politics of Representation organized by the Centre for Cultural Studies, Institute of English,University of Kerala on 11-13 October 2017

23.Renegotiating the Landscape: Chorophilia in Judith Wright and NandiniSahu. National Seminar on Re-negotiating the Land: Australaia and India organized by the Centre for Australian Studies, Institute of English, University of Kerala on 25-27 October 2017

24.Narrating the Nation: Aboriginal perspective of History in Jeanette C Armstrong’s “ History Lesson” at the National Seminar on Contemplating the Contemporary: Emerging Trends in Literature and Culture at the two day National Seminar oragnised by the Dept of English,MMSGovt Arts and Science College Malayinkeezhu on 29, 30, Nov, 2017

Participated

  1. PostModernisms in Practice sponsored by the UGC organised by the Dept. Of English Fatima Mata National College, Kollam on the 2nd and 3rd of July 2009
  2. Rasanubhava and Contemporary Indian Theatre UGC sponsored national seminar conducted by the Dept. Of English, St. Cyril’s College, Adoor on 2nd,3rd, 4th December 2009
  3. The Cultural Impact of the Portugese on Kerala– UGC Sponsored National Seminar  organised by the Department of History , St. Cyril’s College Adoor from 10.10.2010 t0 12.10.2010
  4. Appropriate Knowledge &Curriculum for English Studies: Need for a New Epistemology– UGC sponsored national seminar conducted by the Dept. of English N.S.S College Pandalam on 4th,5th,6th August 2011
  5. National Seminar on Human Rights-  sponsored by The Institute of Parliamentary Affairs and organized by the Department of English, St. Cyril’s College Adoor
  6. National Seminar on Koodiyattom sponsored by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Kendra Sangeet Natak Academy , New Delhi and organized by the Department of English, St. Cyril’s College Adoor
  7. Cultural Studies: Towards A New Critical Paradigm– UGC sponsored National Seminar organisedby the Post Graduate Department of English Marthoma College Thiruvalla on January 16-17, 2012
  8. Changing worlds: Reviewing and Reinventing Literature and Culture– UGC sponsored International Seminar organized by the Post Graduate Department of English, Catholicate College Pathanamthitta on January 23-24, 2012
  9. Literature Across Cultures- National Conference Organized by The Journal of English Language and Literature and The Department of English, St. John’s College, Palayamkottai
  10. Transculturation in Contemporary British and American Poetry– UGC sponsored National Seminar organized by the Department of English, , St. Cyril’s College Adoor
  11. Reading Literature in the Contemporary Critical Paradigm– UGC sponsored National Seminar organized by the Post Graduate Department of English, Bishop Moore College, Mavelikkara
  12. National Seminar cum Workshop on Re-tracking the Celluloid: History, Politics and Popular Culture in Films organized by the Dept of English, NSS College Pandalam on 24,25,26 Oct2013
  13. International Seminar on Humour- Texts and Contexts organised by the Department of Humanities Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology IIST Thiruvananthapuram on 7,8 Dec 2013
  14. International Seminar on Innovation and Best Practices held at Muslim College of Education, Thiruvithancode, Tamil Nadu on 24,25 January 2014.
  15. National Seminar on Energy Crises: Problems and Prospects in the Age of India Liberalisation organised by the Dept of Economics, St Cyrils College, Adoor on 20,21 February 2014
  16. International Conference on Emerging Trends in Science, Engineering, Business and Disaster Management ICBDM-2014 organized by the Department of Human Resource Management in association with IEEE Madras section ED chapter and ISTE India at Noorul Islam University on 28 February 2014.
  17. National Seminar on Understanding Aboriginal Australia organized by the  UGC Area Centre for Australian Studies. Institute of English, University of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram on 8, 9 Januray 2015
  18. Multi Disciplinary International Conference on Rethinking Teaching in the 21st Century held at Muslim College of Education , Thiruvithancode,  Tamil Nadu on 9,10 March 2015

Achievements

  • Award from the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund
  • Winner of Kerala University Gold Medal
  • Winner of Malayala Manorama Scholarship
  • Winner of Prof. M.P Paul Prize
  • Winner of Prof Antony Lionel Memorial Scholarship
  • FMNC Guardian Association Award
  • Rev. Fr Vincent Memorial Scholarship
  • National Merit Scholarship
  • Winner of Nanaimma Kochera Panicker Memmorial Award
  • Winner of Narayana Swamy Memorial Prize

Research and Teaching Experiences

Pursuing Ph D

14 Sep 1998 – 01 March 2009. H.S.S.T at St. Gregorios Higher Secondary School, Kottarakara

Co-investigator in UGC Minor Project on Transculturation in the works of, Gwendolyn Brooks and Benjamin Zephaniah