Faculty Profile

Dr. Raj Sree M S

Associate Professor

Qualification : MA, JRF, Ph D

Experience : 14 Years 9 Months

Specialization : Trauma Studies, Diaspora, Climate Fiction, Cultural Studies

Email : rajsree.eng@allsaintscollege.ac.in

List Of Publications
  • M. S., Raj Sree. “History and politics in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?”. Literary Criterion XLVI(2011):26-34. Print.
  • ---. “The influence of Plautine Comedies on Chaucerian Tales”. Contemporary Discourse 2.1. (2011): 215-19. Print.
  • ---. “A Marxist rendering of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss”. Indian Journal of Post Colonial Literatures : An International Referred Journal 10 June(2010): 93-103. Print.
  • ---. “Trauma of Incest and Child Sexual Abusein Mahesh Dattani’s 30 Days in Septemper”. Samyuktha 11.1-01/2011
  • ---. “Divining the Male Self in Sula”. Indian Journal of Post Colonial Literatures : An International Referred Journal 11June(2011): 93-103. Print.
  • ---. “The Dialectics of Indian Literary Historiography as Exemplified in Francis Itty Cora”. Indian Journal of Post Colonial Literatures : An International Referred Journal 11 Dec(2011): 247-57. Print.
  • ---. “A Feminist discourse on Poile SenGupta’s Mangalam”. Littcritt 71.37(2011): 33-38. Print
  • ---. “Radioactivity of Trauma in Jewish Immigrants in America”. Labyrinth 2 (2011):43-49. Print.
  • ---. “An Ecoaesthetic Rendering of Aju Mukhopadhay’s Poems”. Discourse on Five Indian Poets in English. Ed. K. V. Dominic. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2011. 303-311. Print.
  • ---. “The Dynamics of Cosmopolitan Motherhood in Shobha De’s Speedpost”. Feminism in contemporary Indian Women Writers. Ed. M. F. Patel. Jaipur: Aavishkar Publishers, 2011. 212- 20. Print.
  • ---. “Theorizing Trauma in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: A Novel of Remembrance of Things Past or Trauma?”. Booker Prize Winner Indian English Novelists.Ed. Arvind M. Nawale and Vishwanath Bite. Jaipur: Aavishkar Publishers, 2011: 60-70. Print.
  • ---. “The Psychodynamics of Trauma and Recovery in Nora Gold’s Marrow and Other Stories”. English Activities Update 2 (2012):71-78. Print.
  • ---. “Moralizing the Popular: Popularising the Moral”. Contemporary British Literature: Post-1990s, A Critical Study. Ed. Rama Nair and Parimala Kulkarni. New Delhi: Prestige Books International, 2013. 153-159. Print.
  • ---. “Teaching Literature and Language through Popular Culture”.Special volume marking the first anniversary of eltai literature sig. Web.
  • ---. “The Representation of an Ecotone in When the Lost Soil Beckoned: Life Sketch Narrated by C. K. Janu” .Malayalam Literary Survey. 32.2-01/2013. Print
  • ---. “Contextualizing Fragmentation: An Analytic Study of Trauma Theory”. Samyukta Vol 4.1-2019. Web https://sites.google.com/site/splissu eeltailiteraturejournal/articles
  • ---. “Historiographic Metafiction as a Nuanced Methodology: A Study on Francis Itticora”, Madhya Bharti: Humanities and Social Sciences - Vol 82.6 (2022).
  • ---. “Space and Memory in Fugitive Pieces: A Study on Trauma”. Journal of Modern Thamizh Research 2321-984X
  • List of Invited Talks and Lectures
  • • Chaired the Technical Session II in the International Conference on Polarity, Axis and Praxis organized ICFAI University, Meghalaya on 22 August, 2024
  • • Gave an expert talk on Trauma and Mental Health in Govt. College, Malayinkil
  • • Gave an expert talk on Trauma and Mental Health in Christian College, Kattakada on 18 July, 2024.
  • • Gave an invited lecture on Trauma Theory: Retrospects & Prospects on 20th March, 2024 for students of St. Joseph College, Alappuzha
  • • Gave an expert talk on Reading Trauma Narratives in the Digital Era on 08 Feb, 2024 for the students of the Department of Arts and Humanities, Christ Academy, Bengaluru.
  • • Served as a resource person for the national seminar on “Paradigm Shift: Reading Literature in the 21st Century” organized by the department of English, Holy Cross College, Nagercoil on 11/02/2014.
  • • Chaired a session in the international seminar on Thrice Told Tales: Reconfiguring the Canon organized by All Saints’ College on 10,11 Dec 2018.
  • • Chaired a session on Gender and Tradition in an International Seminar on Gendered Violence in All Saints’ College on 18,19, Nov 2013
  • Titles of Paper Presented in International Seminars
  • 1. Presented a paper titled Post Memory as Site of Resistance in the International Conference on Polarity, Axis and Praxis organized ICFAI University, Meghalaya on 22 August, 2024
  • 2. “Comics: A Forgotten Medium of Teaching Language” in UGC sponsored International seminar co- organized by London Metropolitan University, UK and St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam on 24,25 January 2011
  • 3. “Depiction of Holocaust in American Fiction” in the 40th Annual Conference of the Indian Association for American Studies, Coimbatore.
  • 4. “The Impact of Latin Comic Tradition on English Comedy” in an International conference on Latin Language and World Cultures. On 11,12,March 2010 by The Institute of English, University of Kerala.
  • 5. “The Dynamics of Hyper reality in the Emergence of a Spectacular Subculture of Video Games” in an International conference on American Studies and the Popular at the University of Hyderabad.
  • 6. “Violence in Children’s Comics” in an International conference on Re-Reading Classics in Children’s Literature at Bharat Matha College, Thrikkakkara on 19,20 Nov 2010
  • 7. “Power Politics in the Strategic Representation of 9/11 and Terrorist Attacks on Mumbai” in an International conference on Comparative Cultural Studies: Towards New Postcolonial Paradigms organized by IACLAS on 27, 28,29 January 2011.
  • 8. “Drama in the Teaching of English: A Constructivist Approach” in an International conference on ELT: Pedagogical Strategies in the 21st Century organized by UGC SAP and Canterbury Christ University, London on 3,4 Feb 2011
  • 9. “Guests and Aliens: Reconfiguring the Lives of Refugees” in the international seminar on Thrice Told Tales: Reconfiguring the Canon organized by All Saints’ College on 10,11 Dec 2018.
  • 10. “Appraising the Inconvenient Truth: a Socio-Ecological study on Clade” in the international seminar on “Who Started the Bushfires?: Australian Culture, Economy and Polity in the Post-truth Era organized by Postgraduate & Research Department of English University College, Thiruvananthapuram’
  • 11. “Theorizing Rapunzel” in the 3 day International Seminar on Fiction to Film: An Interdisciplinary Approach organized by Govt. College for Women, TVM on 14,15,16 March 2012
  • 12. “The Tradition of Dissent in Partition Narratives” in an International conference on Traditions of Dissent organized by the Central University of Kerala on 15,16,17 Oct 2012
  • 13. “Depiction of Holocaust in American Fiction” in the Annual Conference of the Indian Association for American Studies on 11,12 August 2010
  • Titles of Paper Presented in National Seminars
  • 1. “Theorizing the Abject in Relation to Sexual Minorities” in a UGC sponsored national seminar on Popular Media at All Saints’ College, Trivandrum on 18,19 August 2011
  • 2. “Representation of Traumascapes and Memory in Refugee Films” in the National seminar on Reading Between the frames: Theorizing the Kaleidoscopic World of Films organized by Govt. College Malayinkil in collaboration with Directorate of Collegiate Education on 28,29 and 30 Nov,2019.
  • 3. “Deconstructing Diaspora with reference to Indian Diasppora” in a UGC sponsored national seminar on Indian Diaspora at TKMM College, Haripad on 22, 23 August 2011.
  • 4. “Life Writing as Counter Discourse” in a UGC sponsored national seminar on Post Modernism at Chengannur Christian College on 1,2 Sept 2011
  • 5. “The Canadian Literary Mosaic: The Ethnic Voices” in a national seminar on Third World writings at SN College for Women, Kollam on 23,24 Sept 2009.
  • 6. “Superheroes and the Dynamics of a Hyper Real World” in a UGC sponsored national seminar on Versos and Rectos- Translation and Recreation Across Borders and Cultures at Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta on 15,16 July 2010
  • 7. “Popular Culture and Harry Potter” in a national seminar on Culture Studies: Sites of Resistance at Marthoma College, Thiruvalla on 23,24 Sept 2010
  • 8. “Teaching Language Through Literature” in the national seminar conducted by District Centre for English (Dept of General Education, Govt. of Kerala and English and Foreign Languages University(EFLU), Hyderabad)
  • 9. “The Intervention of multimodality and multiliteracies in Pedagogy” in a UGC sponsored national seminar on ELT at NSS college, Pandalam on 4,5,6 August 2011
  • 10. “Constraints of the Marginalized: Representation of women in Partition Fiction” in a seminar on Representation of Women by TKM College of Arts and Science, Kollam on 29,30 Sept 2011
  • 11. Memory as Sites of Resistance in UGC sponsored National Seminar in Re-thinking Post colonialism- Texts and Contexts in the Govt. College for Women, Trivandrum on 17,18 Dec, 2015.
  • 14. `Ethical issues in teaching violence and trauma: challenges and needs in a national seminar on ethics in Higher Education: Policies and Praxis organized Globethics.net India, Journal of Dharma and All Saints’ College on 29,30 July 2019
  • 15. “Memory and Post Memory as Sites of Resistance” in a National Seminar on Transcending the Margins: Contemporary Trends in African Literature in the Govt. Arts College, Trivandrum on 17,18,19 January 2019
  • 16. Representation of an Ecotone in “When the Lost Soil Beckoned: Life Sketch Narrated by C K Janu” in a seminar on Emerging perspectives in Women’s Writing organized Govt. College for women on 28,29 January 2013
  • 17. “Histographic Metafiction as Nuanced Methodology: A Study on Francis Itty Cora” in a National Seminar on Research Methodology: An Inter-disciplinary Approach Bishop Caldwell College, Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu on 1 Nov, 2022.
  • 18. “Language and the Essential Female Self” in the National Seminar on Philosophy of Language: Problems and Perspectives organized by University College on 8 March, 2013.
  • 19. “Post Modern Spectator and the Theory of Abject” in a national seminar on An Interface: Convergence of Theories and Techniques by BC College, Kottayam on 4,5 Oct 2013
  • 20. “The Representations of 9/11 into the Making of History” in a UGC Sponsored National Seminar on The Representations of Power and Terror in 9/11 Discourses organized by SH College on 28,29 Nov 2013
  • 21. “The Myth of Redemption Violence in Super Hero Movies” in UGC Sponsored seminar on Re-Tracking the Celluloid: History, Politics and Popular Culture in Films by NSS College Pandalam on 24,25, 26 Oct 2013
  • 22. “Theorizing Myth and Metafiction in Carol Shields Unless” in a national seminar on Narrative of Narratives on 26,27,28 Feb 2013 at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady.
  • 23. Traumascapes, Temporality and Memory in Partition Narratives” in UGC Sponsored seminar on Event, Memory and Literature: Trauma Narratives of the Indian Subcontinent on 5,6 Sept 2013 by St. Thomas College, Kozhencherry.
  • 24. “Theorizing the Politics of News” in a seminar on Emerging Perspectives in Media Studies by Got. College for Women on 23,24 Feb 2012
  • 25. “Teaching Language Through Literature” in national seminar by English Education Congress on 12 March 2011.
  • 26. “The politics of Space and Memory in Fugitive Pieces” in a seminar on Spatial Configurations on 16,17 Nov 2012.
  • Participated in All India Women Academicians Conference in Osmania University, Hyderabad on 21/09/2024
  • Orientation Programme (IT Oriented) 14-06-2012 to 14-07-2012 Academic Staff College, University of Kerala
  • Refresher Course in Comparative Indian Literature 18-10-2016 to 07-11-2016 HRDC, University of Kerala
  • Refresher Course in English UGC HRDC Bharathidasan University 12/05/2022- 25/05/2022
  • Refresher Course in Curriculum design, Implementation and Learning Outcome UGC HRDC University of Kerala 31/01/2020 to 13/02/2020
  • NEP Orientation &Sensitization UGC HRDC University of Kerala15/12/2023 to 28/12/2023
  • Flair Induction Training Programme Phase II 06/08/2015- 07/08/2015
  • Faculty Development Programmme in IT Tools for Academics (MOODLE) in association with FLAIR 14/12/2015- 15/12/2015
  • Flair Personality Development Training Programme 11/01/2016- 12/01/2016
  • Short Term Training Programme on Course Design of Flair at IIIT B 18/01/2016- 22/01/2016
  • Participated in International Seminar on Decolonizing Theories of the Emotions organized by the Centre for womens’ Studies from 11-13 Nov 2015
  • Organization of Seminars/Conferences etc.
  • 1. Organized an International Seminar on Gendered Violence in All Saints’ College on 18,19, Nov 2013
  • 2. Conducted an Orientation to Civil Services with Lead IAS. Mr. Rishiraj Singh IPS took the session.
  • 3. Inter-Departmental Quiz competition on Current Affairs under Sixth Sense, the quiz club of the college
  • 4. Member in Organizing Committee in the anti plastic drive conducted by dept. of English in collaboration with Kanthari (International)
  • 5. The Inter-Collegiate Quiz competition titled ‘Women who Changed the World’ under Sixth Sense, the quiz club of the college
  • 6. `Member in Organizing Committee of the workshop on Revised Syllabus for Language Courses organized by All Saints’ College
  • 7. Member in Organizing Committee of the national seminar on ethics in Higher Education: Policies and Praxis organized Globethics.net India, Journal of Dharma and All Saints’ College.
  • 8. Member in Organizing Committee of the international seminar on Thrice Told Tales: Reconfiguring the Canon organized by All Saints’ College.
  • 9. Conducted PTSD Awareness Campaign -Road to Recovery in All Saints’ College
  • 10. Orientation to Civil Services- Be Ambitious in All Saints’ College
  • 11. Conducted a talk on ‘hygiene and personality development’ in association with Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
  • 12. In association with the placement cell of University of Kerala, arranged a One day orientation training program, ‘Placement Readiness’
  • 13. Conducted a workshop on higher studies in association with Edwise International.
  • Second Rank for PG
  • Net, JRF
  • PhD degree in English on The Dialectics of Fragmentation and Integration in Select Jewish Canadian Fiction: A Psycho-Cultural Approach under Dr. Jancy James, Vice Chancellor, Central University of Kerala.
  • College Level Charges Held
  • • Co-ordinator Placement Cell
  • • Co-ordinator Young Communicators’ Club
  • • Co-ordinator Add-on Course by Keltron
  • • ASCAA Secretary
  • • Teacher in Charge- Literary and Debating Club
  • • Teacher in Charge- Theater Club
  • • Magazine Editor
  • • Co-ordinator IGNOU
  • • Co-ordinator ASAP
  • • Co-ordinator UGC NET Coaching