Centre for Theory & Criticism
The Centre for Theory & Criticism was established at the Department of English & Comparative
Literature in 2017 in a move to cater to the theoretical imagination of students and scholars across the country.
The following are some of the major events organised by the Centre for Theory & Criticism,
Central University of Kerala.
- Inaugural Lecture Seminar by Prof. Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan ( Chancellor’s
Professor, University of California, United States)
The Centre for Theory & Criticism was inaugurated in the Department of English & Comparative
Literature by the globally renowned Critical Thinker Professor Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan,
Chancellor’s Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine,
United States with his Public Lecture on " is Critical about Theory and Comparative
about Literature?!" 20th October 2017.
This lecture can be accessed through the following link to the YouTube Channel of CT & C
Prof. R. Radhakrishnan offered a lecture seminar on "Jacques Derrida: The Philosopher that
he therefore has to be " which was dedicated to the memory of Prof. VC Harris in honour of his
passionate scholarship on Derrida.
This lecture can be accessed through the following link to the YouTube Channel of CT & C
- MHRD (GIAN) workshop on Literature of Empire offered by Prof. Gauri
Viswanathan ( Director, South Asia Institute and Class of 1933 Professor in the
Humanities, Columbia University in the City of New York)
Prof. Gauri Viswanathan, Director, South Asia Institute and Class of 1933 Professor in the
Humanities, Department of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University in the City of
New York, offered a week-long workshop on “Literature of Empire” as a part of the first
MHRD, GIAN ( Global Initiative for Academic Networks) event ever held in the Central
University of Kerala jointly hosted by the Centre for Theory & Criticism and Department of
English & Comparative Literature from 26th-31st December 2017. Faculty and Research scholar-
participants were selected from across the country by the Course Coordinator, Dr. Prasad Pannian,
who has been the first GIAN grant winner from CUKerala.
These lectures can be accessed through the following link to the Youtube Channel of CT & C:
- Public Lecture on “Postmodernism and its Discontents” by Prof. Ronald
Strickland, (Cahir, Humanities, Michigan Tech University, United States)
Prof. Ronald Strickland delivered a public lecture on “Postmodernism and its Discontents: Literary
& Cultural Studies in 2018 and Beyond” on 2nd January 2018. The event was jointly organised by
Centre for Theory & Criticism and Department of English & Comparative Literature, Central
Universty of Kerala.
This lecture can be accessed through the following link to the YouTube Channel of CT & C
- Public Lecture-Seminar on “Margins and Marginalities” by Prof. Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak ( University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
in the City of New York) on 4th September 2018
Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak offered her Lecture-Seminar on “Margins and Marginalities”
inaugurating the academic activities in the newly constructed Department of English &
Comparative Literature, CUKerala, Tejaswini Hills, Periye, Kasaragod on 4th September 2018.
The event was organised by the Centre for Theory & Criticism and the Department of English
& Comparative Literature in collaboration with the Kerala State Higher Education Council,
Thrivananthapuram.
This lecture can be accessed through the following link to the You Tube Channel of CT & C
- Public Lecture-Seminar on “The Novel as Counter Discourse: Dialogic Mode in
Modern Indian Fiction” by Prof. E.V Ramakrishnan on 30th January 2018
Prof. E. V. Ramakrishnan’s delivered a Public Lecture on “The Novel as Counter Discourse:
Dialogic Mode in Modern Indian Fiction” This was jointly organised by the Centre for Theory &
Criticism and the Department of English & Comparative Literature, the Central University of
Kerala on 30th January 2019.
This lecture can be accessed through the following link to the YouTube Channel of CT & C