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Dr. Evangeline Shanti Roy, MA, PhD
Professor
Institute of English
University
of Kerala
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Areas of Specialization: |
Canadian Studies, Women’s Writing,
Contemporary British Literature, Australian LIterature
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Teaching Experience: |
31 years’ experience teaching postgraduate
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Awards: |
Recipient
of the Faculty Enrichment Fellowship by the Department
of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government
of Canada, through the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
in 2001, for Post-doctoral research at the University
of Calgary, Canada in order to develop a course
on “Asian Canadian Literature”. This
course is now being offered as a two-credit elective
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Research
Guidance: |
Research Guide of the University of Kerala since
1997.
Successfully guided 3 PhD theses and over 15 MPhil
dissertations.
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Membership
of Organizations / Academic Bodies: |
Life Member of Indian Association for Canadian
Studies
Member of Indian Association for Commonwealth
Literature and Language Studies
Member of the Asian Association for the Study
of Australia |
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Publications:
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Over
15 articles published in academic journals, including
“The Margin Outside the Mosaic: Immigrant
Experience in Cyril Dabydeen’s Fiction”.
Figuring the Nation: Race, Gender and Identity
in Canadian Literature. Eds. Jameela Begum A.
and Ajayakumar P.P. Trivandrum: UGC Area Study
Centre for Canadian Studies, U of Kerala, 2003.
74-79.
The Problematic Subject in Feminist Postmodern
Fiction: A Reading of Margaret Laurence’s
The Fire-Dwellers and The Diviners”. Journal
of Literature and Aesthetics 2.2 (2002): 75 -
80.
“The Quest for the Woman’s Self: Virginia
Woolf and the Lives of the Obscure”. Samyukta:
A Journal of Women’s Studies 1.1 (2001):
18 - 23.
“Singing the World the Barramatjara Way
in Thomas Keneally’s Flying Hero Class”.
New Directions in Australian Studies. Ed. Cynthia
vanden Driesen and Adrian Mitchell. New Delhi:
Prestige, 2000. 435-439.
“The Root and Crown of Canadian Identity:
Reconstructing Ethnicity Within the Mainstream
in Robertson Davies’ The Rebel Angels”.
Indian Journal of Canadian Studies 4 (1995): 52-59.
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Participation
in Conferences: |
Participated
and presented papers / served as resource person
at more than 60 national / international conferences,
including:
International Workshop on “Environmental
Concerns: Canada and India”, UGC Area Study
Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Kerala,
21 -23 March 2005. Presented a paper on “Landscape
as Trope in Margaret Atwood”.
Seminar on “Feminism in Indian Literature
in English”, Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha,
9 August 2004. Served as sole Resource Person.
Seminar on “Teaching of English”,
Institute of Distance Education and IDEAA, University
of Kerala, 17 January 2004. Presented a Paper
on “The Use of Audio-Visual Aids in Language
Teaching”
III Asia Pacific and XIX IACS International Conference
on “Globalisation and Consumerism: Canadian
Studies in the Context of Asia-Pacific”
organized by the Indian Association for Canadian
Studies, Department of Studies in English, University
of Mysore 9-13 January 2003. Presented a paper
entitled “Fractured Selves and Divided Lands:
Traumatic Female Memories in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s
What the Body Remembers”.
V Biennial International Conference of the Comparative
Literature Association of India, University of
Kerala, 8-10 Jan. 2001. Presented a paper entitled
“The Homeland through Distant Eyes: India
in Diasporic Fiction”.
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