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Dr. G. S. JAYASREE, MA, MPhil, PhD
Reader
Institute of English
Hon. Director, Centre for Women’s Studies

University of Kerala
 
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Areas of Specialization:
Modern Literary Theory, Women’s Studies, Translation Studies.
Teaching Experience:
22 years experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate classes
Positions held:

Honorary Director, Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Kerala.

Editor, Samyukta: A Journal of Women’s Studies, an internationally recognized journal

Member, P.G. Board of Studies in English, University of Salem.

Member, Board of Studies in Women’s Studies, University of Karaikudy.

Member of the Permanent Cell to Combat Sexual Harassment in the University Campus, University of Kerala.

Member, Editorial Board of Families, a journal published with Fulbright assistance.

  Participation in Conferences:
Oblique Mirrors: An Approach to the Heroes of Upamanyu Chatterjee, International Seminar on Alienation and Identity Crisis in American Fiction and Indian Fiction in English, 1994. Paper published.

Reader as Construct in Popular Fiction, Workshop on Modern British Fiction, 1995.

Women, Development and the Feminisation of Poverty, International Conference on Canadian Studies, 1996. Paper published.

Multiculturalism and the New World (Dis) order, International Conference on Creative Configurations: the Expanding Australian Experience, 1997. Paper published.

Multiculturalism and the New World (Dis) order, International Conference on Interactions: Writing in Asia and Australia, 1997. Paper accepted for publication by The Centre for Australian Studies, University of Western Australia.

Colonial Narratives and Post-Colonial Images, International Conference on ‘Rethinking Education and Culture, 2000. Paper accepted for publication by the International Centre for Kerala Studies, University of Kerala.

Shashi Deshpande’s Small Remedies, ACLALS Conference 2001, Canberra, Australia.

Engendering Violence: A Critical Enquiry into Pornographic Representations at University of East Anglia, Norwich.
  Special Lectures:
Post-Coloniality and Feminism, Academic Staff College, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.

Recent Approaches to Post-Colonial Studies, Academic Staff College, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.

What is Post-Modernity? Academic Staff College, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.

Man and Environment: a Symbiotic Relationship, a series of three lectures at the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.

Gender Studies, A Series of lectures to academics associated with SOAS and the University of London.
  Publications:
Book:
The Concept of Tradition in Twentieth Century British Poetry: A Marxist Analysis.


Articles:

Oblique Mirrors: An Approach to the Heroes of Upamanyu Chatterjee”, Alienation and Identity Crisis in America Fiction and in Indian Fiction in English. Edited by K. Radha.

“Multi-Culturalism and the New World (Dis)order”, New Directions in Australian Studies. Edited by Cynthia vanden Driesen and Adrian Mitchell.

“Multi-Culturalism and the New World (Dis)order, Interractions”, Essays on the Literature and Culture of Asia Pacific Region. Edited by Dennis Haskell and Ron Shapiro.

“T.S. Eliot’s Conception of Tradings: A Sociological Reading”, Journal of Literature and Aesthetics.

“Women: Colonial Narratives and Postcolonial Images”, Indian Journal of Post-Colonial Literatures.
  Awards:
Recipient of the New Venture Award instituted by Women in Publishing, London, the premier organization of women editors and publishers, for outstanding work in the field of publication
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