Brief Profile
Prof. Asha S. is currently working in the Department of English & Comparative Literature, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod. She was awarded Ph.D. in 2004 by the University of Kerala on the topic ‘Purdah in the Sub-continental Novel in English’. She undertook two UGC Minor Research Projects in 2006 and 2009 on the topics - ‘Literary Representations of the Middle Eastern Muslim Woman: Realities and Stereotypes’ and ‘Islamist Construction of Muslim Femininity in Post 9/11 Malayalam Periodicals’. She has published research papers in peer reviewed national and international journals and co-authored a book Introducing Literature, currently prescribed for study in the core course of the 1 year BA English programme of the University of Calicut.
Recent and Major Publications
- Scaria, Subin & Asha S.,"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
- S.,Asha,"Conflicting Empathies: Arab Spring in Benyamin’s Jasmine Days and Al-Arabian Novel Factory",Littcrit,47.1 pp/120-131
- S., Asha,"Critiquing Camus, Denouncing Islamism: Kamel Daoud’s The Mersault Investigation as Double Edged Postcolonial Re-writing",Literary Endeavour,X.2 pp. 261-268
- S., Asha,"Reconfiguring Faith, Redifining Agency: Post 9/11 Muslim Women’s Diasporic Dilemma",Littcrit,45.1 pp.41-50
- S., Asha,"(ഇസ്ലാമിക) ) സ്ത്രീവാദം മുസ്ലിം സംഘടനകളുടെ പരിപ്രേക്ഷ്യത്തില്",Malayalam Research Journal,11. 3 pp. 4358-4371
- S., Asha,"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
- S., Asha,"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
- S., Asha,"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
- S., Asha,"Muslim Feminist
Consciousness in Indian English Fiction in the Nationalist Era",The Criterion: An International Journal in English,6.4 pp. 007-015
- S., Asha,"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
- S., Asha,"Norma Khouri’s
Forbidden Love: A Case
of Textual Violence
Against Women",Icfai University Journal of English Studies,6.3 pp. 56-60
- S., Asha,"Perceptions on the Indian
Muslim Woman in
Colonial and Reformist
Discourses",Littcrit,37.1 pp. 3-11
- S., Asha,"Battered by Poverty:
Women in Shaukat
Osman’s Janani and The
State Witness",Icfai University Journal of English Studies,5.3 pp. 40-44
- S., Asha,"Aiding Imperialism: Popular Iranian Women’s
Memoirs",Littcrit,36.1 pp. 32-43
- S., Asha,"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
- S., Asha,"Reading Lolita in Tehran: Rehashing Orientalist Stereotypes",Icfai University Journal of English Studies,4.1 pp. 47-53
- S., Asha,"Narrative Discourses on Purdah in the Subcontinent",Icfai University Journal of English Studies,3.2 pp. 41-51
Books / Chapters
Chapter(s) - Sole Author, (2021). Postmodern Voices in Indian English Literature, Authorspress, New Delhi, 13 : 9789390588060Chapter(s) - Sole Author, (2012). Various Cultures, Variant Readings, Creative Books, New Delhi, 81-8043-093-6Book - Co-Author, (2018). Introducing Literature, Publication Division, Calicut University, 9788177482126
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Teaching & Research Guidance
- Fiction, Indian Writing in English, Research Methodology, Arab Spring Narratives, Syrian Refugee Narratives, Postsecular Feminism:Post Graduate
- Kerala Modernities, Disability Studies, Matrilineal Studies, Graphic Narratives:Research Guidance