Dr. v.r. anil kumar

Assistant Professor of English

anilkumar@tnnlu.ac.in

Educational Qualification

  • MA in English (Calicut University)
  • M.Phil. in English (Full time)
  • Ph.D. in English (full-time from Bharathidasan University)

Committee/Club Details [FIC/Convenor/Member]

  • Faculty-In-Charge: NEWSLETTER (Since 2020),
  • LITERARY CLUB
  • BOOK CLUB.

Biography

Life-Narration, Cultural Studies, Gandhian Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Post-Colonial Literature, History, Law and Literature

  1. Worked as a guest lecturer at the department of English in Vimala College, Trichur, Kerala.
  2. Worked as a guest lecture at the department of English in St: Aloysius College, Trichur, Kerala.
  3. Worked as an Assistant Professor at the department of English in Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

Paper Presentations

  • Presented a paper titled ‘Law as Fictional Materials in Select Literary Texts’ at the International Virtual Conference on Language, Law, and Literature: Dialogic Interfaces held on 23 and 24th March 2021, organized by Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
  • Presented a paper in the national conference on Feminist Research Approaches to Gender Studies organized by the Department of Women Studies, the University of Madras on 09-10 December.
  • Presented a paper titled “Function of Law in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Kafka’s The Trial and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird at the one day National Seminar on Innovations in Language, Culture, and Communication (ILCC 2019) organized by the department of English, School of Social Science and Languages, VIT, Vellore on 06 December 2019.
  • Presented a section of Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj in the Winter School on “Life and Thought of Gandhi” organized by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla from 07 December 2015 to 17 December 2015.
  • Presented a paper on the topic “Can Annie Speak for Subaltern? A Study of Sara Joseph ‘s Alahayude Pennmakkal” in the two-day UGC-TRANSCHE sponsored national seminar on the topic Perceptions and Perspectives of Women’s Writings in India on 20th and 21st March 2014.
  • Growth of Hero as a Writer: A Reading of the Malayalam Movies Aakale and Ritu in the Two–Day ICHR and ICSSR National Seminar on The History of South Indian Cinema organized by Department of History, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli on 14th and 15th March 2014
  • Blurring of Identities: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Globalization in Kiran Desai ‘s The Inheritance of Loss, UGC-Sponsored National Seminar on Indian English Fiction of the New Millennium at The Gandhigram Rural Institute –Deemed University, Gandhigram, Tamilnadu on Feb 11 and 12, 2013.
  • A Study of the Manuscript of Mahatma Gandhi and its Screenplay by Richard Attenborough, UGC Sponsored International Seminar on From Fiction to Film: An interdisciplinary approach in collaboration with the Kerala State Chalachithra Academy at Govt. Women’s College Trivandrum on 14,15,16 March 2012.
  • Mahatma Gandhi’s The Story of My Experiments with Truth and Richard Attenborough ‘s Film Gandhi: A Generic Variation, UGC-Sponsored National Seminar on Text Screen Interface: Cinematic Encoding and Indian English Literature at Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, on 4-5 February 2012.

Paper Publications

  • “Gandhian Plurality in the Visual Narration: A Reading of Gandhi, Lage Raho Munnabhai, and Papilio Buddha”, in an International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature (IJSELL). Vol 3, Issue 2, February 2015, ISSN: 2347-3134.
  • “Re (De) Generating Polemics of Gandhian Sense of Sexuality in the Life-Narration of Jad Adams Gandhi: A Naked Ambitions”, in an International Journal Online of Humanities (IJOHMN), Vol 1, Issue ii, February 2015, ISSN: 2395-5155.
  • “Reflection of Gandhian Ethics in Select Visual Narration”, in Conspectus: A Journal of English Studies, Vol 10, 2016, ISSN: 0973-0990