Dr. Minu Susan Koshy Assistant Professor MA, NET, PhD +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 (Distance mode) 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

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

Computer Skills

• Microsoft Office Word
• Microsoft Office Excel

Reviewer/ Member of the Editorial Board

• Reviewer for the Journal of Global South Studies, University of Plattsburgh, New York.
• Reviewer for Education, Society and Human Studies, Los Angeles.
• Member of the editorial board of Studies in English Language Teaching, Los Angeles

Invited Lectures

• 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.
• 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 – I” 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.
• Dr.Minu Susan Koshy 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.
• Dr.Minu Susan Koshy 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 21st
Century”.
• Dr.Minu Susan Koshy 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.
• Lecture on “Critical and Cultural Theory: Novel Paradigms” from 10-11 September 2018
at Mar Thoma College for Women, Perumbavoor.
• 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.

Books

1- 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.
2- Koshy, Minu Susan, ed. Gossamer Reveries. Elizabeth Kuriakose. Authorspress, 2018.
Print.
3- Abraham, Jacob. Tattoo. Trans. Minu Susan Koshy. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2015. Print.
4- Koshy, Minu Susan. Narrating Childhood Trauma: The Quest for Catharsis. Kottayam:
DC Books- Expressions, 2015. Print.
5- Koshy, Minu Susan and Roshin George. When Objects ‘Write Back: Rethinking Material
Culture in the Tricontinent. To be published in 2022 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
(upcoming)

Book Chapters

1- 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
(upcoming).
2- Koshy, Minu Susan. “Broken Rhythms of the ‘Cracked’ City: Rhythmanalysing
Cityscapes in Select Holocaust and Partition Novels”. Asian and European Modernity
and Temporality (tentative). Ed. Schmidt, Burghart, Mathew John and Anoop Pandey.
Hamburg: DOBU Ferlag, 2021. (upcoming)
3- 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. 50-58.
Print.
4- 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. 27-52. Print.
5- 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. Ed. Nawale, A.M.,
Ankita Khanna and T.N.Kolekar. New Delhi: Authors Press, 2013. 349-371.Print.

Academic Papers and Articles in Journals

• 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. (upcoming)
• 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. 51.1 (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 Scholar II.III (August 2014): 465-472. Web. 3
September 2014.
• Koshy, Minu Susan and Raj Kumar. “Theorizing Language: The Postmodernist Project”.
Research Scholar I.IV (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”, “ChammakChallo” and
TheAvial 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
NaliniJameela’sThe 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.JanuandThe
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 Rereading of The Mahabharata.” Subalternspeak: An International Journal of Postcolonial
Studies. I.II (April 2012): 68-73. Print.

Paper Presentations

• “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”. 16th
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.
• Dr.Minu Susan Koshy and Ms. Abina Sulhath presented a paper titled “Of Gastronomic
Consumerism in the Time of Covid-19: Reading Consumerism and Food in Pandemic India”
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.
• Dr.Minu Susan Koshy and Ms. Anjam Ameer presented a paper titled “The Ecological Lexicon
of Indian Comicana: Interrogating Animal Motifs in Indian Comics” at the national seminar
on Critical Theory and Ecological Interconnectedness held on 2 December 2019 at BCM
College, Kottayam.
• Dr.Minu Susan Koshy and Ms.Abina Sulhath presented a paper titled “The Hero who is ‘Not
Man Enough’: Interrogating Subversion of Masculinity in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema”,
at the national seminar on Melange: Symbiosis of Literature and Film held on 17-18
December 2019 at KMM College, Thrikkakkara.
• Dr.Minu Susan Koshy and Ms. Sharon Sara Thomas presented a paper titled “Recreating
Kochunni on Screen: A Diachronic Inquiry Into Multiple Film Adaptations of the legend of
Kayamkulam Kochunni” at the national conference on Myth, Folklore and History: Revisiting
Cultural and Literary Traditions at Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha on 15 January 2020.
• Dr.Minu Susan Koshy and Ms. Fidha Afreen presented a paper titled “Islamophobia and the
Construction of the ‘Terrorist’: A Comparative Inquiry into Kabir Khan’s New York and
Mridul Nair’s B.Tech” at the National Seminar on Cultural Confluence: Contemporaneity and
Congruence held on 28 and 29 January 2020 at MES Asmabi College, Thrissur.
• Dr.Minu Susan Koshy and Ms.Sweta S Kumar presented a paper titled “When Cities Speak:
Locating Isfahan as Negotiated/ing Urban Space in Anita Amirrezvani’s The Blood of
Flowers” at the national conference on Space, Place, Textuality: Reading Spatial Codes held
on 7 February 2020 at Newman College, Thodupuzha.
• Dr.Minu Susan Koshy presented a paper titled “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.
• Dr.Minu Susan Koshy presented a paper titled “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.
• Dr.Minu Susan Koshy presented a paper titled “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.
• Dr.Minu Susan Koshy presented a poster titled “ ‘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, coorganized 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 MayyazhippuzhayudeTheerangalil and 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’sKal Ho
Naa Ho and Karan Johar’sKabhiAlvidaNaaKehna.” Joint International Conferene 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.

Orientation Programmes/ Refresher Courses/ FDP/Workshops Attended

• 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.
• 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.
• Online Training Programme in 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)
• 40th Orientation Programme organized by the UGC-HRDC, Maulana Azad National Urdu
University, Hyderabad, from 11 June 2019 to 1 July 2019.
• 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 Thiruvalla on 14-15 July 2018.
• 18th 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Member of the editorial team of the 17th 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.

Coordinator of Clubs/Courses/ Fora in College

• Teacher-in-charge of English Research Forum
• Coordinator, Incandescence Language Consultancy Services, Dept. of English
• Coordinator of Innovation Cell for Vocational Studies
• Nodal officer for UGC-aided B.Voc courses sanctioned in 2018
• Nodal Officer, NIRF