Brief Profile
Dr. Shalini M. is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Central University of Kerala. She received her research degrees MPhil and PhD from the University of Hyderabad. She worked at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain for a year as a research fellow before joining the Central University of Kerala. Her areas of specialisation are Comparative Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies. She has participated in many national and international conferences and presented papers. She has guest-edited the Women's Journal Samyuktha's Special Issue on Early Women’s Magazines in Malayalam.
Recent and Major Publications
- Megha A G, Shalini M,"The intangibility of untouchability: Gender and Caste in Deshmane’s Autobiography",Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences.,Vol 16 Issue 1 (30), 299-310
- V.R Jyothisha, M Shalini,"“Inscribing Janaki Ammal: Biographies and the Act of Remembering.”",Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists,Volume 3, Issue 2, 245–270
- Shalini M,"Duping Someone Else’s Body: Life Story of a Body Double",Life Writing (Taylor & Francis),21(3), 457–470.
- Anna Jyothi James and Shalini M,"Fluid Perspectives: A Littoral Reading of Mayyazhipuzhayude Theerangalil.",Malayalam Literary Survey (Kerala Sahitya Akademi),Vol. 44, No. 2
- Anna Jyothi James and M Shalini,"Imagining a Utopian Island: Reading Sarah Joseph’s Aathi (2011)",Shima,18(1), 181–190
- Anna Jyothi James and Shalini M,"The Inextricable Lives of Sarai and Hagar: Reading Sarah Joseph’s Sarayiyude Marudeshangal",Malayalam Literary Survey (Kerala Sahitya Academy)),Vol 43, No.2
- Sreekala K.B, Shalini M.,"Caste-ridden Memories: Reading Narratives of Coorg Labour Migrations from Kerala",Malayalam Literary Survey (Kerala Sahitya Akademi),Vol 43, No.1
- Shalini. M and Sreekala K.B,""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
- Shalini. M,"“Hunger as a Political Critique: Memories as Resistance in M. Kunhaman’s Ethiru”",Contemporary Voice of Dalit, (SAGE),Online
- Shalini. M,"“Beginnings of Gender Discourses in Modern Keralam: Revisiting Early Women’s Magazines” (Editorial)",Samyukta: A Journal of Gender and Culture,Vol. 7, No. 1
- Shalini. M,"“After the Last Sky: Transnationalism and its Discontents”",IIS Journal of Arts,Vol 10/ Issue 1/
- Shalini. M,"Madness of the Method: Unlocking the Ornate Lock",Dialogist,Vol I, Issue I
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![]() | Sreekala K. B, LEC071604- Doctoral Fellow (Ph.D.)
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![]() | Megha A.G, LEC072203- Doctoral Fellow (Ph.D.)
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![]() | Jyothisha V.R, 2300107007- Doctoral Fellow (Ph.D.)
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![]() | Anna Jyothi James, 2300107001- Doctoral Fellow (Ph.D.)
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![]() | Aby Abraham, LCL071301- Doctoral Fellow (Ph.D.)
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- Thesis Title: Framing Politics: Photographic Representations of Post-millennium Land Struggles of Kerala
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![]() | Micah K Thambi, LCL071302- Doctoral Fellow (Ph.D.)
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- Thesis Title: Myth, Fiction, and Nationalism: A Study of Post-Millennial Indian English Popular Narratives
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![]() | Sapna P.C, LCL071306- Doctoral Fellow (Ph.D.)
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- Thesis Title: Motherhood as an Affiliative Category: A Study on the Performativity of Motherhood in Contemporary Narratives and Discourses
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![]() | Jayalakshmi. E, LCL071402- Doctoral Fellow (Ph.D.)
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- Thesis Title: Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishath and Environmental Discourses: A Marxist Ecological Study
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