Assistant Professor and Head-in-Charge

Research Guide (English Language and Literature)

Mobile No: +91-7702463931/ 9207974864

e-mail ID: minususankoshy@gmail.com

Education

• Ph. D in English (Comparative Literature) at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India (2013-2017).
• MA in English Literature at The English and Foreign Languages University (2011-2013).
• BA (Honors) in English from The English and Foreign Languages University (2008-11).
• UGC-National Eligibility Test held in June 2014 (English), December 2014 (English) and December 2015 (Comparative Literature).
• Post-Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of English (PGCTE) from The English and Foreign Languages University (2015-2017)
• Advanced Diploma in Spanish from The English and Foreign Languages University (April 2012)
• Diploma in Italian from The English and Foreign Languages University (2015-2016)
• Sanskrit Level 3 from The English and Foreign Languages University (2013- 2015).
• Two-month Certificate Course in Syriac from St. Ephrem Ecumenical Institute, Kottayam (April – May 2019).

Work Experience

Career Highlights

• Research Guide at Mahatma Gandhi University (Centre: Mar Thoma College, Tiruvalla)
•  Recipient of Research Grant from the Mumbai Research Centre of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai (2022)
• Reviewer for Taylor and Francis Journal, Quarterly Review of Film and Video
• Review Editor for Daath Voyage
• Reviewer for Education, Society and Human Studies, Los Angeles.
• Reviewer for Journal of Global South Studies, State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
• Content developer at Sreenarayanaguru Open University, Kerala
• Author of books and research articles (Details attached)
• Resource person at national and international conferences (Details attached)

 Languages Known

• Malayalam, English, Spanish, Sanskrit, Italian, Syriac.

Books

• Koshy, Minu Susan and Roshin George. When Objects Write Back: Rethinking Material Culture in the Tricontinent. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. Mapping the Postcolonial Domestic in the Works of Vargas Llosa and Mukundan: Tales of the Threshold. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
• Koshy, Minu Susan, ed. Gossamer Reveries. Elizabeth Kuriakose. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2018.
• Abraham, Jacob. Tattoo. Trans. Minu Susan Koshy. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2015.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. Narrating Childhood Trauma: The Quest for Catharsis. Kottayam: DC Books- Expressions, 2015.
• Koshy, Minu Susan and Sanjana S. Tell-A-Tale: Enchanting Stories for Children. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2024. (Upcoming)

 Book Chapters

• “Mapping Rhythms in the Metropolis: A Rhythmanalytic Reading of Mumbai in Anjali Joseph’s Saraswati Park”. Writers of Indian Diaspora: Critical Essays. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, September 2024.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “Broken Rhythms of the ‘Cracked’ City: Rhythmanalysing Cityscapes in Select Holocaust and Partition Novels”. Time and Temporality in Asian and European Modernity. Germany: DOBU-Verlag, August 2024.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “Of ‘Exotic’ Eastern Lands: Reading Orientalism in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost”. English Literature: Major Trends, Themes and Styles. Ed.Vinod Chopra. New Delhi: Malik and Sons, March 2023.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. ““Quid Est (Post) Veritas”: Decoding Post-Truth and (Un) Believability in the 21st Century” in The Post-Truth Era: Literature and Media. Ed. Abraham, Praveen and Raisun Mathew. New Delhi: Authorspress, August 2021.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “”The Scholastic “Glass Bead Game”: Comparative Literature as an Interdisciplinary Field of Knowledge”. Comparative Literature: Culture and Translation Studies. Delhi: Upanayan Publishers, August 2021.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “The ‘Hilarious’ Domestic: Locating Boban, Molly and Tintumon within Postcolonial Domesticity”. Humour: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Ajaykumar P. P, Lal C A, Kalyani Vallath and Babitha Justin. New Delhi: Creative Publishers, 2015.
• Koshy, Minu Susan and Roshin George. “The Rhetoric of Domestic Space in Postcolonial Fiction: Reading ‘the House’ in Mayyazhippuzhayude Theerangalil and Aunt Julia and the Script Writer”. Why Fiction Matters: Reading and Understanding Fiction in Contemporary Times. Ed. Vanashree and Anway Mukhopadhyay. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2017.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “Autobiographies as Negotiations, Religion as Subterfuge: A Study of Amar Jiban, My Story and Amen: The Autobiography of a Nun.” Pristine Waves: New Perspectives on Autobiographies, Biographies and Memoirs in English. Nawale, A.M., Ankita Khanna and T.N. Kolekar. New Delhi: Authors Press, 2013.

Guideship

• Approved as a Research Guide in English Language and Literature by Mahatma Gandhi University on 30 November 2021, with Mar Thoma College, Tiruvalla, as the Research Centre.

Invited Lectures

• Served as the resource person for the UGC-NET preparatory sessions organized under UGC Schemes by The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad and delivered lectures on Literary Theory in August 2024.
• Delivered a lecture titled “Into the World of Words: Navigating the Landscape of Language and Literature” at St. Xavier’s College, Aluva, on 21 August 2024.
• Served as the resource person for the UGC-NET preparatory sessions organized under UGC Schemes by The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad and delivered lectures on Literary Theory in March 2023. 
• Served as the resource person for the UGC-NET preparatory sessions organized under UGC Schemes by The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad and delivered lectures on Literary Theory in May 2021. 
• Delivered an invited lecture on “The Art of Doing Research in the ‘Arts’: Some Observations” at St. Thomas College, Kozhencherry on 23 March 2022.
• Delivered an invited lecture on “Literature of the 21^st Century: Where We Are and Where We Go” organized by Daath Voyage, Kolkata, in July 2021.

• Delivered a lecture on “Technology in Editing and Proofreading” on 19 January 2022 at a session organized by the IIC and IEDC in association with the Dept. of English at Mar Thoma College for Women.
• Served as the resource person for the 14-Day Lecture Series on “Literature Across the Ages: Literary Schools/Movements” hosted by Daath Voyage, and delivered a lecture on “Post Modern Age – I” on 21 April 2021.
• Served as the resource person for 14-Day Lecture Series on “Literature Across the Ages: Literary Schools/Movements” hosted by Daath Voyage, and delivered a lecture on “Post Modern Age – III” on 14 May 2021.
• Served as the resource person at the international webinar series, “Epidemics, Body and Medicines: Inquiries through Literary and Cultural Texts” conducted by Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College, Kolkata, from 13 June 2020 to 15 June 2020 and presented a paper titled “The Diseased Nation and its Discontents: Reading the Epidemic Body and the Politics of (Non) Belonging in India”.
• Served as the resource person for the 3-Day Faculty Development Programme organized by Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science, Andhra Pradesh, from 3-5 July 2020 and delivered a lecture titled “Introduction to Writing Research Papers”.
• Served as the resource person at Convergence 2020: An International Multidisciplinary Webinar organized by SES College, Kannur and delivered a lecture titled “Teaching/Learning Online: The Way Ahead” on 7 June 2020.
• Delivered an online lecture on “Myth as Depoliticized Speech: Reading Roland Barthes’ Mythologies” at Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Koppal, Karnataka on 27 April 2020.
• Served as the resource person at the national seminar on Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry: Content Development, Technical Writing and Digital Marketing” at St. Joseph’s College, Thrissur and delivered a lecture on “The Craft of Correction: The Basics of Editing and Proofreading for Content Writers” on 20 January 2020.
• Served as the resource person at SES College, Kannur and delivered a lecture on “Preparing for Entrance Examinations for Degrees in English in Indian Universities” on 20 January 2020.
• Served as the resource person at the Three-Day National Seminar on The Age of Post-Truth and Misinformation: Perception and Analysis, organized by the Dept. of English, Govt. Arts and Science College, Tholanur, Palakkad, and delivered a lecture titled “Quid Est (post)veritas: Decoding Post-Truth and Believability in the 21^st Century”.
• Chaired two sessions titled “Questions of/Questioning Identity and Migration” and “Migration and Persecution” at the national conference on “Contextualizing Migration: Perspectives from Literature, Translation and Culture” held at GITAM, Hyderabad from 3-5 January 2020.
• Chaired a session titled “Reclaiming Democratic Spaces”, at the International Conference on ‘Language and Community: Reclaiming the Lost Democratic Spaces’, organized by the Govt. Arts and Science College, Elanthoor, on 13-15 December 2018.
• Chaired a session titled “Civil Society and Public Order: I, Me, Myself and Others”, at the International Conference on ‘Exploring Moral Interfaces: Private Worlds and Public Systems’, organized by the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, on 07-09 October 2015.
• Delivered lecture on “Critical and Cultural Theory: Novel Paradigms” from 10-11 September 2018 at Mar Thoma College for Women, Perumbavoor.
• Delivered invited lectures/ classes for Ph.D scholars working under the supervision of research guides in colleges affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University on Paper II : Developments in Literary Studies at St.Thomas College, Kozhencherry, during April-May 2018.

Academic Papers and Articles in Journals

• Koshy, Minu Susan. “Sanctioned Trespassing”: Rhythmanalyzing Rome in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Roman Stories in UGC-CARE listed journal Dialog, No. 43 (Spring 2024)
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “Mapping Modernism in Norwegian and Malayalam Literatures: A Comparative Study of N.N. Pillai’s Ishwaran Arrestil and Henrik Ibsen’s Brand” in The Expression (Vol.10, Issue 5).
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “Transforming the Ich-Du to the Ich-Es: The Migrant as ‘Terrorist’ in Aditya Chopra’s New York and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire”. Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture (No.10), 2021.
• Koshy, Minu Susan and Abina Sulhath. “Reading Consumerism and Food in Pandemic India”. Education, Society and Human Studies (3.2), 2022.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “Coloured” Articulations of the Domestic: Reading Domesticity in African-American Women’s Writings” . Oye: Journal of Language, Literature and Popular Culture(1.1), University of Nigeria, September 2019.
• Koshy, Minu Susan and Ms.Meera Deleep. “Deviant Bodies, Fragmented Minds: Reading ‘Madness’ in M. Night Shyamalan’s Split”. International Journal of English Language, Literature and Humanities (7.5), May 2019.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “‘Little Glass Slippers’ on the American Silver Screen: An Inquiry into Hollywood Adaptations of Charles Perrault’s “Cinderella”. Education, Society and Human Studies (1.1), May 2020.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “Traumatic Transnationalism: The Refugee as Transnational Subaltern in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West“. New Academia. VII:II (April 2018) :12-20. Web. 12 May 2018.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “Role of Motivation in Learner Centered Teaching (LCT)”. New Frontiers in Education.1 (January-March 2018). Print.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. ‘Rhythanalysing’ New York Through Diasporic Lens: A Study of Nikhil Advani’s Kal Ho Naa Ho and Karan Johar’s Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna’. Ars Artium. 4.1 (January 2016). Print.
• Koshy, Minu Susan and Roshin George. ““Wandering between Two Worlds”: Negotiating Postcolonial Identity in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus”. Contemporary Discourse, 6.2 (July 2015):223-228. Web. 25 June 2015.
• “Koshy, Minu Susan. “ ‘Making it New’ in Malayalam Literature: A Modernist Study of The Death Certificate and ‘Comala’”. Quest Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science, 3.5 (May 2015):53-57. Print.
• Koshy, Minu Susan “Contesting Domestic Hegemony: Power Politics within the Postcolonial Indian Domestic in Select Contemporary Fiction”. Gnosis, 1.3 (January 2015). Print.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “Spacing Postcolonial Domesticity: The House as Domestic Space in Select Indian Fiction”. The Context, 1.3(November 2014):120-128. Web. 01 November 2014.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “Shards of a Gruesome Memory Commemorated: An Analysis of Chronicle of a Death Foretold”. Research ScholarIII (August 2014): 465-472. Web. 3 September 2014.
• Koshy, Minu Susan and Raj Kumar. “Theorizing Language: The Postmodernist Project”. Research ScholarIV (November 2013): 1-8. Web. 3 Nov., 2013.
• Koshy, Minu Susan and Chilkhe Ganesh Nagorao. ““When Circles are Made Squares and Squares Made Circles”: Translating Kosla and Kaalam”. Research Scholar. I.III (August 2013): 1-9. Web. 5 August 2013.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “”Making It New” in India: “Kolaveri Di”, “Chammak Challo” and The Avial Band.” Asian Literary Supplement. (July-August 2012): n. page. Web. 12 Jan. 2013. <http://www.refereedjournals.com/asian-literary-supplement>
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “Verbalising The Marginalized Self- The Speaking Female Subject in Nalini Jameela’s The Autobiography of a Sex Worker.” Alternative discourse. I.II (July-August 2012): n. page. Web. 12 Jan. 2013. <http://www.refereedjournals.com/alternative-discourse>.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “Problematizing (Western) Canonical Traditions in Self-Writings: A Study of Amar Jiban, My Story, Mother Forest: The Unfinished Story of C.K. Janu and The Autobiography of a Sex Worker.” New Academia. I.III (July 2012): 88-89. Print.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “De-anathemising Sex-Work: The Voice of the Female Sex Worker in The Autobiography of a Sex Worker.” New Academia. I.II (April 2012): 80-88. Print.
• Koshy, Minu Susan. “Kurukshetra War: Is Caste System the Genesis? – A Postcolonial Re-reading of The Mahabharata.” Subalternspeak: An International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. I.II (April 2012): 68-73. Print.

Paper Presentations

• “The Inter-State Migrant as Homo Sacer: Reading the Mediatized Abjectification of Migrant Labourers in Kerala” at the 13^th Biennial MESEA Conference held at the University of Eastern Finland from 12 June 2024-14 June 2024.
• “Towards an ‘Indian’ Waste Culture: Reconceptualizing Waste Worlding as Thrift Mechanism in the Indian Kitchen” at the Virtual Summer Institute, organized by Bucknell University, USA, from 3-6 June 2024.
• “Othered’ Odours of Culinary Work in Indian Narratives: Decoding Cultural Representations of the ‘Stench’ of Dried Fish in India” at the Virtual Conference on “Work and Smell: Comparative Perspectives”, organized by Goldsmiths, United Kingdom, from 25-26 April 2024.
• “Christianizing ‘Pagan’ Magic: The Legend of Kadamattathu Kathanar and the Consolidation of Christianity in India”. International Conference on ‘Reading the Fantastic: Tales Beyond Borders’, organized by the University of Leeds, Leeds, the United Kingdom. 24-25 April 2015.
• “Urban Rhythms of Polycoloniality: Rhythmanalyzing Kochi in Malayalam Cinema”. 16^th Triennial Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS), organized by EACLALS and the University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. 3-7 April 2017.
• “Of Gastronomic Consumerism in the Time of Covid-19: Reading Consumerism and Food in Pandemic India”, co-authored with Abina Sulhath, at the International Conference on “Food In/Of the Pandemic” organized by Christ University, Bangalore, in collaboration with Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom, from 6-12 May 2021.
• “Animated Tales of the Plasticene: A Comparative Inquiry into the Portrayal of Plastic in Animated Narratives from India and the USA”, co-authored with Ann Mary T. Jeby at the National Seminar on Visual Narratives, organized by BCM College, Kottayam, on 2 February 2024.
• “Mapping the Interface between Couture and Disability: Problematic Encounters and Contested Sites in Fashion and Consumer Culture”, co-authored with Sanjana S., at the International Conference on “Fashioned Bodies: Couture to Counter-Fashion”, organized by Nirmala College (Autonomous), Muvattupuzha, from 11-12 January 2024.
• “The ‘Making’ of Men in Kothas: Tawaifs and the Reconceptualization of Indian Masculinity in Bollywood” at the International e-Conference on “Gender, Culture and Society”, organised by New Literaria and Guri Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, from 26-28 November 2022.
• “Gender and Consumption in the Virtual World: Reading Women as ‘Conspicuous Consumers’ in Video Games”, co-authored with Ms. Thasni A.A., at the International Lecture Series on “Gender Coding in Children’s Narrative” organized by St. Xavier’s College, Aluva in March 2022.
• “The Ecological Lexicon of Indian Comicana: Interrogating Animal Motifs in Indian Comics”, co-authored with Anjam Ameer, at the national seminar on Critical Theory and Ecological Interconnectedness held on 2 December 2019 at BCM College, Kottayam.
• “The Hero who is ‘Not Man Enough’: Interrogating Subversion of Masculinity in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema”, co-authored with Abina Sulhath, at the national seminar onMelange: Symbiosis of Literature and Film held on 17-18 December 2019 at KMM College, Thrikkakkara.
• “Recreating Kochunni on Screen: A Diachronic Inquiry into Multiple Film Adaptations of the legend of Kayamkulam Kochunni”, co-authored with and Ms. Sharon Sara Thomas, at the national conference on Myth, Folklore and History: Revisiting Cultural and Literary Traditions at Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha on 15 January 2020.
• “Islamophobia and the Construction of the ‘Terrorist’: A Comparative Inquiry into Kabir Khan’s New York and Mridul Nair’s B. Tech”, co-authored with and Ms. Fidha Afreen, at the National Seminar on Cultural Confluence: Contemporaneity and Congruence held on 28 and 29 January 2020 at MES Asmabi College, Thrissur.
• “When Cities Speak: Locating Isfahan as Negotiated/ing Urban Space in Anita Amirrezvani’s The Blood of Flowers”, co-authored with and Ms. Sweta S Kumar, at the national conference on “Space, Place, Textuality: Reading Spatial Codes” held on 7 February 2020 at Newman College, Thodupuzha.
• “Trajectories of the Ich-Du to the Ich-Es: Constructing the Asian Migrant as ‘Terrorist’ in Aditya Chopra’s New York and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire” at the national conference on “Contextualizing Migration: Perspectives from Literature, Translation and Culture” held at GITAM, Hyderabad from 3-5 January 2020.
• “The Rhythms of Ruptured Cityscapes: A Comparative Rhythmanalytic Study of Select Holocaust Narratives and Partition Novels” at the International Conference on “Time and Temporality in Asian and European Modernity” organized by the Dept. of Germanic Studies, the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad in February 2019.
• “Theorizing the Quasi-Private: The Latin American Family in Select Novels by Mario Vargas Llosa” at the International Conference on “Artistic, Literary and Pedagogic Innovations in the Hispanic World: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Trends”, organized by the Dept. of Hispanic and Italian Studies, the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad on 1-3 November 2018.
• “ ‘Flipping’ and ‘Blending’ the ESP Classroom: ICT-Enabled English Teaching for Skill Based Courses in India” at the National Workshop on Skill Based (NSQF) Education: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges, organized by IQAC and DDU Kaushal Kendra, Sree Sankara College, Kalady from 1-2 March 2019.
• “’Traumatic Transnationalism: The Refugee as Transnational Subaltern in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West”. International Conference on The Self and the Other: Identity and Alterity, co-organized by the PG and Research Department of English, St. Aloysius College, Elthuruth, Centre for the Study of World Religions, Dharmaram Vidyakshetram, Bangalore and Globethics.net.india, on 12 and 13 January 2018.
• “Interrogating the ‘Decolonial’ Turn in the Humanities: A Comparative Inquiry into Latin American ‘Decoloniality’ and Postcolonial Studies in India”. National Conference on ‘Comparative Humanities: Re-configuring Humanities across Cultures’, organized by the Department of Comparative Literature and India Studies, the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. 05-07 April 2017.
• “Polycoloniality, Modernity and the Question of the Domestic: A Comparative Study of MayyazhippuzhayudeTheerangaliland Kalapani”. Three-Day International Conference on Commonwealth Literature, organized by Osmania University Centre for International Programmes and Indian Society of Commonwealth Studies. 26-28 November 2015.
• “A Space to Live In: The House as Postcolonial Domestic Space in Love in the Time of Cholera and Aftertaste”. One-Day National Conference on ‘Marquez and Literatures from India, organized by the Dept. of Comparative Literature and India Studies, EFL University. Hyderabad. 25 March 2015.
• “When Objects Turn ‘Things’: Online Shopping, Knowledge Production and the Indian Middle Class”. Researchers at Work Conference on ‘Literature and Culture; Expanding Knowledge Horizons: New Paradigms of Knowledge Production’ organized by the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad. 10-12 September 2014.
• “Cinderella(s) on Screen: A Diachronic Comparative Study of Multiple Film Adaptations of Charles Perrault’s “Cinderella””. International Conference on ‘Translation Studies: Theory and Praxis/ Comparative Literature’, organized by The Shakespeare Society of Eastern India and The Tagore-Gandhi Institute for Culture Studies and Service-Learning, Kolkata. 18-20 April 2014.
• “Rhythmanalysing New York through Diasporic Lens: A Study of Nikhil Advani’s Kal Ho Naa Ho and Karan Johar’s Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna.” Joint International Conference on ‘Diasporic Indian Cinemas and Bollywood on the Diaspora: Re-Imagings and Re-Possessions’, organized by CASII and Osmania University Center for International Programmes (OUCIP), Hyderabad. 22-24 January 2014.
• “The ‘Hilarious’ Domestic: Locating Boban, Molly and Tintumon within Postcolonial Domesticity”. Humour: Texts and Contexts- International Conference organized by Littcrit and UGC Area Study Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. 6-8 December 2013.
• “Reconstructing History Through the Eyes of Women: A Study of The
  Palace of Illusions, Shadow Princess And Nefertiti”. Changing Worlds: Reviewing and Reinventing Literature and Culture- UGC sponsored international seminar. The Post-Graduate Department of English, Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta.  23-24 January 2012.

Content Development

• 15 lectures on literary movements uploaded by Daath Voyage and Gnosis Journals on
• You Tube
• Block 3 (Short Fiction) of course on Regional Literatures in Translation (B21EG03DE) for BA English, Sreenarayanaguru Open University, Kerala.
• Block 4 (Indian Aesthetics) of course on English Critical Tradition from Aristotle to F.R.Leavis (M21EG08DC) for MA English, Sreenarayanaguru Open University, Kerala.

Orientation Programmes/ Refresher Courses/ FDP/Workshops Attended

• Attended a UGC-sponsored online Refresher Course in “Languages, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies” organized by Goa University from 20-10-2021 to 02-11-2021.
• Served as joint coordinator of the UGC-STRIDE FDP on “Recent Trends in English Literature” from 09-15 November 2021, organized by the Dept. of English, Mar Thoma College for Women, in association with M.G University, Kottayam.

• Attended the Orientation Programme for the “Development of Self-Instructional Materials” for Design of Course Materials of the Sreenarayanaguru Open University, Kollam, on 24 August 2021.
• Attended the Orientation Programme for the “Development of Post-Graduate Self-Learning Materials” at Sreenarayanaguru Open University, Kollam, on 16 February 2021.
• Attended a One-week FDP on Human Rights conducted by the School of Legal Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, from 29 June 2020 to 4 July 2020.
• Attended the Online Training Programme on “Teaching Effectively”, organized by CALEM at the UGC-HRDC, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, from 16-22 February 2021, under the PMMMNMTT of the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India. 
• Attended the Online Training Programme on Academic Writing: An Overview of Editing and Proofreading, organized by ILCS, Dept. of English, Mar Thoma College for Women, Perumbavoor, on 11 February 2021.
• Completed OET Interlocutor Training on 5 April 2021.
• Completed the online course on “Understanding Open Educational Resources”, offered by the Commonwealth of Learning, Canada, on 30 April 2020.
• SWAYAM-ARPIT course on Gender Studies, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi (September 2019- February 2020)
• Attended the 40^th Orientation Programme organized by the UGC-HRDC, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, from 11 June 2019 to 1 July 2019.
• Attended a 10-day Induction Programme as part of FLAIR (Kerala State Higher Education Council) at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad from 4 February 2019 to 15 February 2020.
• Organized webinars on various topics in the fields of language, literature and cultural studies in Mar Thoma College for Women.
• Organized webinars in the field of vocational studies at Mar Thoma College for Women.
• Workshop on “Epistemological Shifts in the Humanities”, conducted by the Kerala State Higher Education Council from 11 February 2018- 17 February 2018, at Thiruvananthapuram.
• Attended a two-day workshop on “Reorienting Academic Leadership for Quality Enhancement and Excellence”, organized by the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church Higher Education Commission, at Tiruvalla on 14-15 July 2018.
• Attended the18^th General Body Meeting and Triennial Conference of the All India Association for Christian Higher Education (AIACHE), on “Stakeholders of Education as Change Makers for Nation Building”, held at Christ University, Bangalore on 29 and 30 January 2018.
• Attended a workshop on “Short Stories: Possibilities for Research and Creativity”, organized by the Dept. of Indian and World Literatures, EFL-University, Hyderabad, on 20-21 August 2015.
• Attended a workshop on “Reading the Fantastic: Tales Beyond Borders: Early Researcher Workshop, organized by the University of Leeds, Leeds, on 23 April 2015.
• Attended and volunteered for a one-day national seminar on “Marquez and Literatures from India”, organized by the Dept. of Comparative Literature, EFL-University, Hyderabad, on 25 March 2015.
• Attended a workshop on ‘Recent Trends in Critical Thinking and Research Methodology’, organized by the School of Literary Studies, EFL-University, Hyderabad , on 12-13 March 2015.
• Conducted an interview on literature(s) in India with Prof. P.P.Raveendran, (Professor Emeritus, M G University, Kerala) for Gyandarshan at the Educational and Multimedia Research Centre, EFL University, Hyderabad.
• Served as member of the editorial team of the 17^th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), organized by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy on behalf of the Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Govt. of Kerala, held on 7-14 December 2012, at Thiruvananthapuram.

 Other Contributions

• Organized a National Conference on Vulnerability Studies – “At the Faultlines of Survival: Reading Vulnerability and Precarity in Contemporary Indian Narratives” at Mar Thoma College for Women on 4 and 5 March 2025.
• Published a story titled “Poppy and Mickey” in the February 2022 issue of PCM Children’s Magazine.
• Edited 5 Ph. D thesis from central universities and state research centres as part of activities of Incandescence Language Consultancy Services of Mar Thoma College for Women, Perumbavoor.
• Served as External Examiner for half-yearly presentations of Ph.D scholars at St.Teresa’s College, Ernakulam.
• Offered workshop on ‘Editing and Proofreading’ for graduate students.
• Served as External Examiner for Half-Yearly Presentations of Ph. D scholars at St. Teresa’s College (Autonomous), Ernakulam, Kerala.