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06 February 2025

Department Of English and Comparative Literature

       The Department of Comparative Literature (DCL) was established on 12 October 2009 under the School of Languages and Comparative Literature. It was the first department to be established in the Central University of Kerala (CUK). Keeping in line with CUK’s interdisciplinary vision, DCL started by offering MA (English & Comparative Literature) to its first batch of 12 students. It has a unique syllabus and it uses advanced teaching and evaluation methods to enable its students appear for NET (UGC) both in English and in Comparative Literature. It also offers an integrated MPhil/PhD programme in Comparative Literature. Intensive coursework, regular seminars and frequent presentations are regular features of DCL programmes. DCL provides students with facilities like smart classrooms and fully digitalized language lab. DCL’s Film Club, Literary Club and Research Forum give the students avenues for co-curricular activities. A bouquet of diverse elective courses and national and international visiting faculty help students master a variety of interdisciplinary subjects.

Department Of English and Comparative Literature

It was the first department to be established in the Central University of Kerala (CUK).

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Department Of English and Comparative Literature

It was the first department to be established in the Central University of Kerala (CUK).

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Programmes of study(M A English and Comparative Literature & Ph.D English and Comparative Literature)
MA English & Comparative Literature

PhD English & Comparative Literature

Department Of English and Comparative Literature

It was the first department to be established in the Central University of Kerala (CUK).

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Dr. Joseph Koyippally Joseph
Professor
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Dr. Prasad Pannian
Associate Professor
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Dr. Asha S
Associate Professor
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Dr. Vellikkeel Raghavan
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Shalini M
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.
Assistant Professor
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Department Of English and Comparative Literature

It was the first department to be established in the Central University of Kerala (CUK).

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Publications
  1. Shalini M,(2024)."Duping Someone Else’s Body: Life Story of a Body Double",Life Writing (Taylor & Francis),21(3), 457–470.

  2. Anna Jyothi James and Shalini M,(2024)."Fluid Perspectives: A Littoral Reading of Mayyazhipuzhayude Theerangalil.",Malayalam Literary Survey (Kerala Sahitya Akademi),Vol. 44, No. 2

  3. Anna Jyothi James and M Shalini,(2024)."Imagining a Utopian Island: Reading Sarah Joseph’s Aathi (2011)",Shima,18(1), 181–190

  4. Scaria, Subin & Asha S.,(2023)."Branding the Saint: The Representations of St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara in the Marketplace in Kerala",The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies,18.2 pp.131-51

  5. Anna Jyothi James and Shalini M,(2023)."The Inextricable Lives of Sarai and Hagar: Reading Sarah Joseph’s Sarayiyude Marudeshangal",Malayalam Literary Survey (Kerala Sahitya Academy)),Vol 43, No.2

  6. Sreekala K.B, Shalini M.,(2023)."Caste-ridden Memories: Reading Narratives of Coorg Labour Migrations from Kerala",Malayalam Literary Survey (Kerala Sahitya Akademi),Vol 43, No.1

  7. Joseph Koyippally,(2022)."Analysing Diverse Genres: Shakespeare in India (48-49)",TBR,2020. 44(2-3) 48-49

  8. Shalini. M and Sreekala K.B,(2022).""The Oppositional Gaze and Plateaus of Pleasure: Voyeurs and Infidels in the Stories of Francis Noronha"",Malayalam Literary Survey (Kearala Sahitya Akademi),Vol.42, No.2

  9. Shalini. M,(2022)."“Hunger as a Political Critique: Memories as Resistance in M. Kunhaman’s Ethiru”",Contemporary Voice of Dalit, (SAGE),Online

  10. Shalini. M,(2022)."“Beginnings of Gender Discourses in Modern Keralam: Revisiting Early Women’s Magazines” (Editorial)",Samyukta: A Journal of Gender and Culture,Vol. 7, No. 1

  11. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2021)."How will NEP Shape the Best Professionals?",Vidyasudha,1.1 July, Pgs 51-57

  12. Shalini. M,(2021)."“After the Last Sky: Transnationalism and its Discontents”",IIS Journal of Arts,Vol 10/ Issue 1/

  13. Shalini. M,(2021)."Madness of the Method: Unlocking the Ornate Lock",Dialogist,Vol I, Issue I

  14. S.,Asha,(2021)."Conflicting Empathies: Arab Spring in Benyamin’s Jasmine Days and Al-Arabian Novel Factory",Littcrit,47.1 pp/120-131

  15. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2021)."From the ‘Psychic Man’ to the ‘Saintly Man’ – An Analysis of Freudian Materialism and Religious Spiritualism",Shodh Sarita (UGC CARE Listed International Peer Reviewed Journal),Vol. 8, Issue 29, pg. 101 – 105

  16. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B. & Sreelakshmi M,(2021)."The Ambiguity in Digital Non-Verbal Cues : Tracing the Cultural Paradigm Shift",Kala Sarovar (UGC CARE Listed International Peer Reviewed Journal),Vol.-24-No.-3, pg. 203 – 208

  17. Joseph Koyippally,(2020)."Goat Days: The Art Writing and the Task of Translating",Tapasam,2020. 11(1). 2015 July-2016 April. 14-29

  18. Vanisree V. R and Vellikkeel Raghavan,(2020)."“Jagavati Kummumo”. Translation of Tulu Oral Song. With Vanisree V. R. .” Indian Literature. Sahitya Academy, New Delhi, India. Vol. LXIV, No. 3, Issue No. 317 May/June, 2020. pp. 170—176. (ISSN 0019580-4)",Indian Literature,Vol. LXIV, No. 3, Issue No. 317 May/June 2020. pp. 170—176.

  19. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2020)."Touring Talkies - the Predecessor of Multiplexes through Local Cinema",Filmography,Book 02, Issue 02 June Page Nos. 30 - 35

  20. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2019)."From Mother Tongue to Other Tongue - Some Factors involved in Learning English as a Second Language",Humanities Circle (UGC Approved International Peer Reviewed Journal),Vol. 6, Issue 3, pg. 81 – 87

  21. Joseph Koyippally,(2019)."Ill school’d in bolted language”: Adaptations and Shakespeare",Humanities Circle,2019 8(2)

  22. S., Asha,(2019)."Critiquing Camus, Denouncing Islamism: Kamel Daoud’s The Mersault Investigation as Double Edged Postcolonial Re-writing",Literary Endeavour,X.2 pp. 261-268

  23. S., Asha,(2019)."Reconfiguring Faith, Redifining Agency: Post 9/11 Muslim Women’s Diasporic Dilemma",Littcrit,45.1 pp.41-50

  24. Joseph Koyippally,(2018)."‘Translation in the Posthuman Age’",Humanities Circle,2017 5(1) 19-28

  25. S., Asha,(2018)."(ഇസ്ലാമിക) ) സ്ത്രീവാദം മുസ്ലിം സംഘടനകളുടെ പരിപ്രേക്ഷ്യത്തില്‍",Malayalam Research Journal,11. 3 pp. 4358-4371

  26. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2017)."The Endangered Systemic Racism and Multi Culturalism", The Criterion,Vol. 8.2, Page Nos. 1020 – 1023

  27. S., Asha,(2017)."Contending Patriarchy, Confronting Civilization: The Mother as the Doughty Rebel in Driss Chraibi’s Mother Comes of Age",The Criterion: An International Journal in English,8.3 pp. 988-993

  28. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2017)."Digital Tattooing and the Body Carnivalesque - an Ethnocreational Contrivance ", Humanities Circle,Vol 5. 02, Page Nos. 139 - 144

  29. Vellikkeel Raghavan,(2016)."• “Dario Fo: Minstrel of the Downtrodden.” Frontline. Vol.33, Number 22, October 29 - November 11, 2016. Pp 96—99. (ISSN 0970-1710)",Frontline,Vol.33, Number 22, October 29 - November 11, 2016. Pp 96—99

  30. Joseph Koyippally,(2016)."’Mappila’: Identity and Sematic Narrowing",IOSR-JHSS,2016, 22(1). 8-13

  31. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2016)."Tackling the Issues of Dalitality – An Analysis of the Poems of Edasseri", Contemporary Discourse, Vol. 7, Issue 2, July, Page Nos. 69 –74

  32. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2016)."The Necessity of Community Outreach Programs in the Higher Education Sector",INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (IJMER),Vol.5, Issue 4(5), April, Page Nos. 57 – 66

  33. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2016)."The Note of Scepticism in the Poems of R.S. Thomas", The Literati, 2016, Vol. 6.1, Page Nos. 51 – 61

  34. S., Asha,(2015)."The Politics of Spotlighting on Afghan Women’s Plight in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns",The Criterion: An International Journal in English,6.5 pp. 149-153

  35. S., Asha,(2015)."In the Throes of Transition: Muslim Women in Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi and Zeenuth Futehally’s Zohra",International Journal of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies,2.3 pp. 108-115

  36. S., Asha,(2015)."Muslim Feminist Consciousness in Indian English Fiction in the Nationalist Era",The Criterion: An International Journal in English,6.4 pp. 007-015

  37. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2015)."The Role of Constructivism in Inter/Multi –Disciplinary Studies", Journal of Research and Innovation in Education (JRIE),Vol. 2.2, Page No.s 58 – 62

  38. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2014)."Edasserian Poetry – Man’s Collective Consciousness of the Universal Brotherhood", LITTCRIT, Vol.40, No. 2, Issue (78), Dec 61 – 65

  39. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2014)."The Theme of Alienation",NOTIONS,2014, Vol.5, No.3, Sep Page Nos. 19 –25

  40. Joseph Koyippally,(2014)."The Bard on Cyberstage: MIT Shakespeare Project’",Humanities Circle,2014, 2(2), pp.215-218

  41. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2014)."Dubbing and Subtitling - the Visual and Acoustic Phonetics in Film Translation",NOTIONS,Vol.5, No.1, March, Page Nos. 115 – 122

  42. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2014)."Transgender – the Transformation from ‘Sex Change Joke’ to Inconsiderate Veracities", Brennen Journal of Multi Disciplinarity Studies,Vol. 9, Jan, Page Nos. 1 – 9

  43. Joseph Koyippally,(2013)."Transnational Feminine identities: Mapping, Resistance and Diaspora in Dryden’s Amboyna",Oasis,2013, 5(1), pp. 54-72

  44. Joseph Koyippally,(2013)."Caliban’s Smile?: South Asian Diasporic Response to 9/11",Humanities Circle,1(1), pp. 189-203

  45. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2013)."A New Historicist Reading of The Mahabharata", NOTIONS,Vol.4, No.2, June, Page Nos. 69 – 78

  46. S., Asha,(2012)."The Intersection of the Personal and the Political: Huda Shaarawi’s Harem Years and Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage",Icfai University Journal of English Studies,7.2 pp. 31-38

  47. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2012)."Postcolonial Nepali Poetry – Gynocentric Angst against the Doubly Colonized Mind",NOTIONS, Vol. 3, No.1, Mar, Page Nos. 11 – 16

  48. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2012)."The Feast of the Goat – the Triumphant Worlds of Power Structure", Brennen Journal of Multi Disciplinarity Studies,Vol. 7, Jan, Page Nos. 1 – 7

  49. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2012)."Digital Translation Mediation – (Im)proper Sandwiching of Communication Between Information", IDEAGORA,1 Jan, Page Nos. 319 – 322

  50. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2011)."Niche of Female IT User-ship – An e-reading of the Women’s Voices",NOTIONS,Vol.2, No.4, Dec, Page Nos. 55-61

  51. S., Asha,(2011)."Norma Khouri’s Forbidden Love: A Case of Textual Violence Against Women",Icfai University Journal of English Studies,6.3 pp. 56-60

  52. S., Asha,(2011)."Perceptions on the Indian Muslim Woman in Colonial and Reformist Discourses",Littcrit,37.1 pp. 3-11

  53. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2011)."The Art of Reading in the Digital Age", Journal of ELTIF,Vol. 2, No.1, Jan – Mar, Page Nos. 7 – 10

  54. S., Asha,(2010)."Battered by Poverty: Women in Shaukat Osman’s Janani and The State Witness",Icfai University Journal of English Studies,5.3 pp. 40-44

  55. S., Asha,(2010)."Aiding Imperialism: Popular Iranian Women’s Memoirs",Littcrit,36.1 pp. 32-43

  56. S., Asha,(2009)."Muslim Society at the Crossroads: Mumtaz Shah Nawaz’ The Heart Divided as a Chronicle ofFemale and Community Identities in the Making",Littcrit,35. 1& 2 pp. 32-39

  57. S., Asha,(2009)."Reading Lolita in Tehran: Rehashing Orientalist Stereotypes",Icfai University Journal of English Studies,4.1 pp. 47-53

  58. S., Asha,(2008)."Narrative Discourses on Purdah in the Subcontinent",Icfai University Journal of English Studies,3.2 pp. 41-51

  59. Dr. Efthikar Ahamed B.,(2007)."Translating the Translated – Some Issues on Reversal", Brennen Journal of Multi Disciplinarity Studies,Vol. 1, Page Nos. 1-9

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Email:hod[underscore]decl[at]cukerala[dot]ac[dot]in