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Dr SUSHMA V MURTHY

MA, PhD
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Articles in Periodicals

Sl.No. Title Name of Periodical Periodicity Date
1 When #MeToo Struck the Nobel Deccan Herald Daily 26/05/2018

Articles in Journals

Sl.No. Title Name of Journal Date of Publication Volume No/Issue No/Page No
1 Prob(e)abilities for Enhanced Research and Interdisciplinarity: An Exploration of Innovative Practices in English Studies, Languages, and Media IUP Journal of English Studies 01-Dec-2020 15 / 4 / 142147-142147

Additional information

Category Article in Research Journal
Sole Authored /Co Authored Co-Author
Author Name (s) SUSHMA V MURTHY,RATHI M T
Title of Article Prob(e)abilities for Enhanced Research and Interdisciplinarity: An Exploration of Innovative Practices in English Studies, Languages, and Media
Name of Journal IUP Journal of English Studies
Volume No 15
Issue No 4
Page No 142147-142147
URL https://iupindia.in/English_Studies.asp
Date of Publication 01-Dec-2020

Participation in Seminars/Conferences/Symposium

Sl.No. Type of Program Role Name of Program Title of Paper Date Organising Institution Level
1 Conference Keynote Speaker National Conference on The Confluence of Literature, History and Culture Institutionalised Invisibility : Materialising Male Bodies through History, Race and Gender 24/01/2024 St. Xavier's College, Palayamkottai National
2 Conference Keynote Speaker Yonder Gender : New Approaches to Texts and Contexts of Femininity and Masculinity National Conference on Literary Horizons of Gender : An Exploration 29/09/2023 V V Venniaperumal College for Women National
3 Conference Presenter 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Perspectives in English Language, Literature & Cultural Studies Beyond the Halo: Holographic Image and Queer Text in Nicole Brossard?s Picture Theory 14/07/2023 Department of English, Chandigarh University and University of Acala, Spain International
4 Seminar Keynote Speaker National Seminar on Nature and Nurture: Ecology in Literature Reverberating EC(h)O: Nature and Nurture in the Literary Imagination 01/03/2023 Global College of Arts and Science National
5 Conference Keynote Speaker National Conference on Modern Advances in Teaching and Learning Rainbows in Refraction: Integrative and Expansive Approaches to Pedagogy and Learning in English Studies 25/02/2023 Christopher Arts and Science College National
6 Conference Presenter International Conference on Reimagining the Menstrualscape Breaking the Cycle : Narratives of Menstruation and Feminist Counter-narratives to the Abject 09/02/2023 Devamatha College and Women and child development department, Government of Kerala International
7 Seminar Keynote Speaker National Seminar on Cultural Studies Between the Looking Glass and the Rabbit Hole: Re-visioning Women in Popular Culture Narratives 27/05/2022 St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirapalli National
8 Conference Presenter International Conference on " The Mirror of Life: Representations of History, Culture and Environment in Literature" Tinsel Doves and Lapis Lazuli: Cartographic Anxiety and Multiculturalism in Southeast Asian Feminist Literature 06/05/2022 St. Xavier's College Palayamkottai International
9 Conference Moderator/Chair International Conference on " The Mirror of Life: Representations of History, Culture and Environment in Literature" 06/05/2022 St. Xavier's College Palayamkottai International
10 Seminar Keynote Speaker National Webinar Series on Postcolonial Literatures: Contexts and Concerns Interlocking Skeins of Resistance and Sisterhood: Intersectional Approaches to South -East Asian Feminist Literatures 11/03/2022 Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai National
11 Conference Moderator/Chair International Conference on Sustainable Development Goals and Gender Perspective 25/10/2021 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Institute of technology International
12 Conference Keynote Speaker International Virtual Conference on Disciplinary, Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary research Psycho-cultural Elements in Triveni's Fiction 14/10/2021 Research India Foundation International
13 Conference Presenter International Conference on The Impact of Conflict on the Humanities Palpable Histories: Embodying the Visceral Abject as Historiographic Subject in Select Works of Chimamanda Adichie and Jean Arasanayagam 25/06/2021 St. Paul's College International
14 Seminar Moderator/Chair Melange 2020 27/02/2020 Christ University National
15 Seminar Moderator/Chair Two Day International Seminar on South Asia in Transition 14/02/2020 Christ University International
16 Conference Moderator/Chair National Conference on Gender Politics in Literature 03/10/2019 Kongu Arts and Science College National
17 Seminar Presenter National Level Seminar on Short Stories of the World in English Beyond the Threshold of Femininity: Feminist Resistance and Women's Short Stories in India 20/09/2019 VHSN College National
18 Conference Presenter Revolutionary Reality of African Literature From Abjecthood to Inclusion: Intersectional Feminist Approaches to Women and Nationalism in Adichie's 'Half of a Yellow Sun' 10/03/2019 Mannar Thirumalai Naicker College International
19 Seminar Panelist National Seminar on Feminism in Indian context 25/02/2019 Annai Fathima College National
20 Conference Panelist Transnational & Transcultural Trending in Contemporary South Asian Literatures 14/02/2019 Christ University International
21 Conference Presenter National conference on Extending Postcolonialism Incoherent Truths: the 'Mad' woman in Triveni's Psychoanalytical Fiction 04/02/2019 Christ University National
22 Conference Moderator/Chair Revolutionary Reality of African Literature 10/01/2019 Mannar Thirumalai Naicker College International
23 Conference Presenter One Day National Conference on "A Multidimensional Approach to Women Empowerment: Voice and Visibility From a Space of Absence: Female Psyche and Psychogenic Percipience in Triveni's Fiction 07/03/2018 Christ University National
24 Conference Presenter National Conference on "Texts as Con-Texts: The Hermeneutic Circle Today" From the Dialectic to the Dialogic: contemporary contexts for Feminist Research 06/02/2017 Christ University National
25 Seminar Presenter National Seminar on Literature of the Transgenders Looking Queer: Critical Frameworks for Transgender Aesthetics 30/01/2017 The Gandhigram Rural Institute National
26 Seminar Presenter Media Meet "Shut-Eye Shadows: (Dis)locating Hegemonic Masculinity in Lucia's Visual Dream Narrative" 29/12/2015 Christ University National
27 Conference Presenter Dharma: Interface between secular and sacred "Littoral Drift: Intertidal Corporeal and Spiritual Selves in Akka Mahadevi" 04/01/2015 DVK International
28 Seminar Presenter National Conference on Trends in Indian English Literature "Gender and Space in Anita Nair's Ladies'Coupe" 08/02/2013 CMR college Bangalore National
29 Conference Presenter International Conference on Translation and the Accomodation of Diversity: Indian and Non-Indian Perspectives Trans-Elating Woman: Feminist Translation in Nicole Brossard 10/11/2010 Universite de Bretagne-Sud, Lorient, France International
30 Conference Presenter International Conference on India-Canada Relations The Relevance of Nicole Brossard's Feminist Politics to Indian Feminist Thought 24/04/2008 Shshtri-Indo Canadian Institute International

Invited Talks

Sl.No. Title of the Program Name of the Program Date Name of the Institution
1 Vertices and Vortices: Theoretical and Literary Approaches beyond the Gender Matrix Vidyamritam Extra Mural Lecture Series 12/09/2023 Amritha Vishwa Vidyapeetham
2 Vertices and Vortices: Literary and Theoretical Approaches beyond the Gender Matrix Guest Lecture 12/09/2023 School of Arts, Humanities and Commerce, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetam
3 Deconstruction in Progress: Signifying Post-Derridean Contexts International Conference on Literary Theories 17/12/2016 Mannar Thirumalai Naicker College
4 Dis/Embodied Aesthetics: Reading Feminism as Social Consciousness in Mahasweta Devi's Breast Stories Literati 22/09/2016 St. Joseph's College of Arts and Science
5 "Writing beyond the Dialectic: Feminist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Select Long Stories of Mahasweta Devi" National Seminar on "Postcolonial Aesthetic Experience: Exploring the Dialectical Nature of Postcolonial Texts" 27/02/2015 Teresian College
6 Impact of Advertisements on Youth Yuva Vani 03/07/2013 All India Radio

MPhil/PhD Guided/Adjudicated

Sl.No. Title Name of Student Institution Month Year
1 Characterisation of Women in Hindi Film Adaptations of Select Shakespearean Tragedies Krithika Ojha Christ University
2 The Dialectic between Individual Identity and Social Conformity: Reading Hair as a Symbol in Select Adaptations of Rapunzel Suchismita Dattagupta Christ University May 2017
3 Utilitarian and Sublime Purpose in Emerson?s Nature: A Transcendental Analysis Subashree Vijayadev Christ University May 2017
4 The Personal and The Political: Gender Identities in Khaled Hosseini?s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns Farha Naz Christ University May 2017
5 Use of Focalization in Shashi Deshpande: A Reading of Moving On and In the Country of Deceit Priyambada Singh Christ University
6 Narrativising Gender Performativity: Analysis of Select Transgender Autobiographies from India Arundhati Dey Christ University May 2018
7 Rites of Passage: Women's Reforms in Autobiographies of Sunity Devi, Cornelia Sorabji and Indira Goswami Esha Gaurish Nadkarni Christ University May 2018
8 The Caged Bird Sings: Themes and Concerns of Select Women Prison Writers from India Sharon Abraham Christ University May 2012
9 Representation of Women in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello Arul Gaspar Christ University May 2012
10 Lores in Time: A Folkloristic Approach to the Cultural History of Manipur Yaisna Rajkumari University of Madras
11 Cultural Politics of Sports and Nationalism in Popular Indian Cinema. Padmakumar M.M Christ University June 2014
12 Ritualization and Performance of Halumatha Kuruba Identity in Mailaralinga Jatre Yashaswi M. Maadesh Christ University May 2019
13 Revisioning Women's Voices from the Ramayana: A Feminist Analysis of Volga' s The Liberation of Sita and Sara Joseph's Ramayana Stories Silpa Joy Christ University April 2019
14 CULTURAL POLITICS OF SPORTS AND NATIONALISM IN INDIAN POPULAR CINEMA PADMAKUMAR M.M. Christ University March 2022
15 The Interplay of Images and Words in Select American Queer Graphic Memoirs: A Critical Study ANJITHA TOM Christ University October 2021
16 REDEFINING SELF: ADDICTION MEMOIRS AS FEMINIST RESISTANCE NARRATIVES JOYASMITA BANERJEE Christ University February 2022
17 AUTOPATHOGRAPHIES OF CANCER: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE PATIENT-AUTHORS' EXPERIENCE OF ILLNESS AND HEALING RENUKA SHYAMSUNDAR BELAMKAR Christ University May 2023
18 Adrift from Home: Conflict and Displacement in Dear World and A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea Sania Wahid Christ University March 2022
19 Folk Narratives Celebrating the Spirits and the Village Deities through Somana Kunitha and Bhoota Kola YASHASVI M MAADESH Christ University July 2021
20 Exploring the aspects of womanhood through patriarchy and matriarchy in two North Eastern Indian states: A comparative ethnographic study between the Kachari tribe of Assam and the Khasi tribe of Meghalaya ANWESHA BARUAH Christ University July 2022
21 The Politics of Representation of Devadasis in Select Indian Novels ANINDITA DAS Christ University January 2021
22 A GENEALOGICAL STUDY OF SELECT POLICE MEMOIRS IN INDIA MOULINA BHATTACHARYA Christ University September 2023
23 The "Lonely Child" in Select Bildungsroman of George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay JANNET JOHNY Christ University August 2023

Research Project

Sl.No. Name of the Research Project Investigator(s) Sponsors Internal/External
1 Female Psyche and Feminist Identity: Analyzing Triveni?s Integration of Psycho-cultural and Material Approaches to Women in Fiction SUSHMA V MURTHY Internal

Workshop/FDP/Training programme Attended

Sl.No. Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training programme Name of Oraganiser Level Date
1 National Level FDP on Cultural Studies : Indian Perspectives in Literary and Social Contexts Gokul Global University National 19/02/2024
2 Certificate Training Course in Gender and Mental Health Impact and Policy Research Institute National 13/02/2024
3 5 Day workshop on capacity building for whole person education in higher education in India United Board and Christ University Institutional 06/03/2023
4 Panel Discussion on Gender Inclusivity and Exclusivity Department of Professional Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) National 27/04/2021
5 International Women's Day Teresa's College, Ernakulam National 08/03/2021
6 Dr. V. John Endowment lecture series Research Department of English, St. Xavier's College, Palayamkottai 05/03/2021
7 Two Day Webinar on Discourse on Feminist Writings St. Mary's College, Thoothukudi National 09/02/2021
8 Refresher Course on New Literatures Department of English, Pondicherry University 18/01/2021
9 Refresher Course in English for University and College Teachers UGC- Human Resource Development Centre, Bharathiar University 12/12/2020
10 Gender Equity: Challenges and Opportunities Sardar Vallabhai National Institute of Technology, Surat International 26/11/2020
11 International Webinar on New Trends: Art, Technology & Literature Bharathmatha College of Arts & Science, Palakkad International 30/10/2020
12 International Webinar Series on Gender, Literature: Core Concepts and Perspectives Sri Parashakti College for Women, Coutrallam International 24/08/2020
13 Anatomizing Gender Studies Annai Velankanni's College, Chennai National 10/08/2020
14 International Webinar on Blurred Gender Binaries: Historical Perspectives & Future Dimensions Navyug Kanya Mahavidyalay, Lucknow International 21/07/2020
15 How to write and Publish Books Department of Social Work, Christ University Institutional 16/07/2020
16 International Workshop on English Language Teaching and Literature Mannar Tirumalai Naicker College, Madurai International 08/07/2020
17 FDP on Outcome Based Education Sri Kaliswari College National 28/11/2019
18 National Workshop on Language and Literature Sri Parasakthi College for Women National 21/09/2019
19 Challenges and Avenues in English Studies Sri S. Ramaswamy Naidu Memorial College National 20/08/2019
20 National Workshop on Improving English Language Proficiency Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College, Sivakasi National 05/08/2019
21 FDP on Communicative Skills Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College, Sivakasi Institutional 03/02/2018
22 FDP for PhD Supervisors Centre for Research Institutional 18/01/2018
23 Journals Editorial Roundtable 2016 Taylor and Francis Group International 08/03/2016
24 Author Workshop Springer and Edanz National 22/08/2012
25 Towards Quality Research: Workshop for Research Supervisors Dept of English, Christ University Institutional 18/08/2012
26 FDP on Strategic Planning TQMS, Christ University Institutional 01/06/2012

Awards/Achievements/Others

Sl.No. Name of the Awards/Achievements/Others Description Organisation Month/ Year
1 Resource Person UGC sponsored Seminar on Gender on Campuses, St.Joseph's Evening College (Resource Person) St.Joseph's Evening College April 2009
2 Shastri Doctoral Research Fellowship Was affiliated to the Department of Studies in English, University of Montreal as a doctoral research candidate and audited courses at Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Montreal and interacted with faculty of English and Women's Studies at Concordia, McGill & York Universities Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute & DFAIT, Canada July 2007 - Jan 2008
3 Co-Editor Artha, Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 30. Published by Christ University, Bengaluru Christ University, Bengaluru September 2014
4 Member, Editoral Advisory Board Member of the Editorial Advisory Boardd, Tetso Interdisciplinary Journal (Vol. 3, 3rd Edition, ISSN 2319-2925) Tetso College, Nagaland 2015
5 Resource Person Chaired a session at International conference on "Contours of Postcolonial Studies: Mapping across Disciplines for Plurality and Humanism St. Xavier's College, Palayamkottai Jan 2016
6 External Member, Board of Studies Invited as external subject expert to the Board of Studies of Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore Jyoti Nivas College 21 June 2022
7 Best Paper Award Chandigarh University and University of Acala, Spain 15 July 2023

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