Dept of English - Faculty Details


Faculty NameMridul C. Mrinal
Email mridul4rocksteim@gmail.com
Designation Assistant Professor
Experience Details 2 Years 5 Months
Qualifications MA English and Comparative Literature, UGC NET in English
Areas of Interest • Dalit and subaltern Literature • Folklore and Eco spirituality • Disability Theory • Commonwealth Literature • Diaspora literature • Women writing • Queer Theory and Literature • Regional Literatures in Translation • Creative writing
Field of Research
Guideship Details
Subjects Handled Litmosphere, IntroductiontoLiterature, MediaStudies
Academic Responsibilities Undertaken
Duties Performed
Research Projects Undertaken 1 Minor Research Project
Faith as a retrospective element in selected novels of Dan Brown(Funded by N.K Muhammed Chair for Research
Research Publications • A Malayali Gay’s Identity; A Study OfKishor Kumar’s RanduPurushanmarChumbikkumbol. Anthology, Women And Queers: The Marginalized Gender. Edited By Shormita Bose. Sankalp Publication (Isbn 978 93 90468 41 6), 2020
• Role Of Matriarchy: A Gender Perspective On D K Chowta’sMittabailYamunakka: A Tale Of The Landlords House Hold, Book Chapter, Contemporary Multi-Disciplinary Research Dimension, Notion Press Publications, Chennai, Isbn: 9781639576326, 2021
• Truthiness, Ideology And Consensus Reality In George Orwell’s Animal Farm: A Post-Truth Discourse, Book Chapter, Multi-Disciplinary Research Explorer, Notion Press Publications, Chennai, Isbn-13: 9781685384975, 2021
• WayanattuKulavan ; The Hidden Lessons on Eco-Spirituality, Societal evolution, Myths and Folklore,Book chapter . A Critical Enquiry into the Anthropocene fiction and reality, Anu Books, Meerut, ASIN; B09HXL7S46
• Socio-Linguistic factors on Civil Migration: A Study of Ethnic Tuluva and Kannadiga Migration from Kasaragod District. Conference Proceedings. Forced Migrations, Refugees, Welfare Policies and the State, New Bharatiya Book Corporation, New Delhi, ISBN – 10-8183154794
• Problematizing toxic masculinity in Shakespearean tragedy: A study of Richard III, Conflation of English language teaching and literature,GanapathiPayhippagam, ISBN: 978-81-931416-8-8, 2021
• Keralkeithihas, sabyathaevamSahitya: Eksthreeparipekshya, Sthreeshakthikaran: shikshaaurSahityakesandarbhmein ,JTS Publications, New Delhi, ISBN : 978-93-92611-57-5, 2021 (Hindi)
• Deceit, chicanery and Chaos as emerging trends in postmillennial fiction: A study of Dan Brown’s Deception Point, Proceedings of National Virtual conference on Contemporary trends in ELT and literature, Academy of Maritime Education and Training, Chennai, ISBN: 978-93-85434-88-4. 2022
• Malame: The dwindling tongue of Kasaragod, Proceedings of National conference on Multiculturalism in/and literature, Department of English, SreeShankara University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Association for cultural and scientific Research, Thrissur, ISBN : 978-81-952711-1-5, 2022
• Faith as a destabilizing Factor in Colonial and Post-Colonial Nigeria: A Comparative Study of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, The Dialectics of centre and margin: Culture, theory and praxis, SmashwoodInc, Lost Gatos, California, US, ISBN : 9781005733643, 2022
• Ambiguity in menustral narratives: A literal discourse on the poems of Bernadette Meyers and Lucile Clifton, Re- spacing menstrual narratives, Amazon Kindle direct publishing, ISSN: 9798849485577. 2022
• Disengagement Of Self And Identity: A Discourse On Sharan Kumar Limbale\'sZund, Proceedings of Insight-2022 International conference on Advanced research, SIAS International publishers, ISSN:* 978-81-953135-2-5, 2023
• Environmental Elements And Tuluva Identity: Reading AmbikasudhanMangad’s Swarga, International Journal Of Recent Trends In English Language Teaching (Elt), Linguistics, Education, Psychology, Arts And Allied Researches (A Multidisciplinary Journal) Peer Reviewed (Refereed) International Journal, Issn: 2350-1499 (Online), December 2020
• Legend Of Koragajja: A Discourse On The Deconstruction Of Spirit Worship Of Tulunadu, Ad Litern: An English Journal Of International Literi (A Peer Reviewed Refereed Journal).(Issn:2456 6624),December 2020
• From Tulu To English: Representations Of Tuluva Culture In D.K Chowta’sMittabailYamunakka: A Tale Of A Landlord’s Household, Praxis International Journal Of Social Science And Literature, (Issn: 2581-6675), April 2021
• Masculinity In Historical Drama: A Study On The Film The Eagle Of The Ninth, Universe International Journal Of Interdisciplinary Research (Peer Reviewed Refereed Journal), (Issn (O) – 2582-6417), April 2021
• Busting The Myths Of Socio-Cultural Representation In Sarkari Hi. Pra. Shaale, Kasaragodu, Koduge: Ramanna Rai, E-Cineindia, Issn : Apr-Jun 2021
Books Published
Paper Presentations • Presented Paper Changing trends in disabled learning: A discourse on latest literature with special reference to Sara Novic’s True Biz,Two- day International Virtual Conference on Rethinking Disability across Disciplines:New Directions and Emerging Trends. Vellore Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh August 10- 11, 2023
• Presented Paper The Memory of Caribbean: A Discourse of Girmitiya Memory Transmission in Peggy Mohan’s Jahajin. International Memory studies conference Memory in Digital Age organized by the Centre for memory studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. 23-25 April 2022
• Presented PaperNoongar Identity and social movements: A gender discourse on the selected novels of Kim Scott. Three day International webinar on stories from down under: Gender discourses of Australia organized by the centre for Australian studies, University of Kerala. 26 – 28 October 2022
• Presented Paper Trauma, survival, resilience beyond Kalapani: A literal discourse of Indian Indentured laborship of the Caribbean in Peggy Mohan’s Jahajjin. 8th JGU International Literary Conference on India in the literary imagination organized by English Literary society of O.P Jindal University, Haryana. 18 – 20 July 2022
• Presented Paper Representing the mythical anti-heroes: A discourse of the depiction of satan in selected visual media. Two-day international seminar on popular culture and contemporary literature organized by Department of English, Pondicherry University. 1- - 11 November 2022
• Presented Paper The Legends of Kotti-Chennayya: A Discourse on the Tulu performative arts and oral history. Three Day International Conference organized on Globalizing South Asian regional literature: social and cultural perspectives organized by Center for comparative literature, University of Hyderabad. 14 – 16 September 2022
• Presented Paper Remediation of young adult and graphic novels in Digital space: A discourse on He-man comic series. International virtual conference on E-Literature organized by the Department of English, JamiaMiliaIslamia, New Delhi. 16 – 17 January 2023
• Presented Paper Bodybuilding, Masculinity and Social movement: A socio-analytic study of Michael Bass’ Muscular India; Masculinity, Mobility and the New Middle Class. National seminar on gender and sports in India Roadblock and roadmaps organized by Women’s studies centre, CUSAT sponsored by National Commission for Women. 8 – 10 December 2022
• Presented Paper “Spirituality and syncretism: A cultural discourse on the Afro Brazilian spiritual movements”, National Seminar on PROMOTING HUMAN VALUES AND CULTURE FOR PEACEFUL CO – EXISTENCE, Amity Centre of Sanskrit and Indic studies, Amity University, Haryana, 22 July 2022
• Presented Paper “Adaptation of Jane Austen’s Classics into Silver Screen: A Novel Chronological Perspective”, International Conference on Recent Research Trends in Adaptation Studies 2.0, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, 8 -9 April 2022
• Presented Paper “Anxiety and Existence: A Survival Discourse on Tribal Literature with special reference to Mamang Dai’s The Black Hill”, One day National webinar on Tribal Literature: Production and reception, Government Kawzawl College, Kawzawl, Mizoram, 13 April 2018
• Presented Paper “Pedagogical constraints in teaching language among rural students of Malappuram district: A post covid scenario”, International Conference Dharti 2022 on The digital divide: discontents, debates, and discussions, Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations, 21 – 24 February 2022
• Presented Paper ”Representations Of Casteism In Silver Screen: A Comparative Study Of Tamil And Malayalam Films”, MESMAC International Conference, MES Mampad College, Nilambur, Kerala, 20 – 31 January 2022
• Presented Paper “Disengagement of Self and identity: A discourse on Sharan Kumar Limbale\'sZund” International Conference on Advanced Research INSIGHT 2022, MES KeveeyamCollge, 11 – 14 January 2022
• Presented Paper “Ambiguity in Australian National Identity: A postcolonial perspective o the poems of Jack Davis and A D Hope”, One-day virtual conference on language, literature, linguistics and culture – ICLLLC 2021, Shri ShankarlalShasun Jain College for Women, Chennai, 18 December 2021
• Presented paper “Ambiguity in menstrual narratives: A literal discourse on the poems of Bernadette Mayer and Lucile Clifton”. Two-day national webinar on Re-spacing menstrual narratives,Sri. C. Achutha Menon Govt.college, Thrissur, Kerala ,11 – 12 December 2021
• Presented Paper “Gendered experience and identity struggle: A discourse on the social stratification element in Arundhati Roy’s The ministry of utmost happiness”. National conference on Resistance and revolutions: The politics of marginality, Dyal Singh Evening College, University of Delhi, 15 - 16 November 2021
• Presented Paper “Adaptation of Vampirism in popular culture: A Psychoanalytic study of the series The Vampire Dairies” , Two-Day National Conclave-Cum-Seminar
On “Shifting Trajectories Of Research In Cultural Studies”, Punjab University, Chandigarh, 25-26 November 2021
• Presented Paper “New Trajectories in ELT: A Discourse on The Challenges of Online Teaching and Learning Under the Context Universalised Knowledge”, National Webinar on “Contouring New Paradigms in ELT in the Post-pandemic Milieu”, Government College, Attingal, Kerala, 12-13 November 2021
• Presented Paper “Mapping the Geography of Kerala: Romantic Description of Nature in Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things.”, Two-Day International Webinar on “Space, Place, and Topography: Geographical Imaginations in Indian Writings in English”, SevaBharatiMahavidyalaya, Jhargram, West Bengal, India, 24-25 September 2021
• Presented Paper “Ecclesiastical Trauma and Confinement in Commonwealth Literature: A Discourse of ChimamandaNgoziAdichie\'s Purple Hibiscus”, International Virtual Conference Through the Looking Glass: Mediated Lives and Realities in Pandemic Times, Marthoma College, Thiruvalla, Kerala, 9-10 September 2021
• Presented Paper “KuleMadime: A Practice of Cultural Assertion among Ethnic Tuluvas” , Three days International Virtual Conference on Voice from Margins: Exploring fringe articulations in literature and culture, SB College, Changanassery, Kerala, 6-9 September 2021
Seminars / Workshops Organized ): 1InternationalSeminar- Two Day National Webinar on Narratives of Freedom Struggle in SouthAsian Literatures - 17th and 19th February, 2021
Seminars Attended • Two- day International Virtual Conference on Rethinking Disability across Disciplines:New Directions and Emerging Trends. Vellore Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh August 10- 11, 2023
• International Memory studies conference Memory in Digital Age organized by the Centre for memory studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. 23-25 April 2022
• Three day International webinar on stories from down under: Gender discourses of Australia organized by the centre for Australian studies, University of Kerala. 26 – 28 October 2022
• International Literary Conference on India in the literary imagination organized by English Literary society of O.P Jindal University, Haryana. 18 – 20 July 2022
• Two-day international seminar on popular culture and contemporary literature organized by Department of English, Pondicherry University. 1- - 11 November 2022
• Three Day International Conference organized on Globalizing South Asian regional literature: social and cultural perspectives organized by Center for comparative literature, University of Hyderabad. 14 – 16 September 2022
• International virtual conference on E-Literature organized by the Department of English, JamiaMiliaIslamia, New Delhi. 16 – 17 January 2023
• National seminar on gender and sports in India Roadblock and roadmaps organized by Women’s studies centre, CUSAT sponsored by National Commission for Women. 8 – 10 December 2022
• National Seminar on PROMOTING HUMAN VALUES AND CULTURE FOR PEACEFUL CO – EXISTENCE, Amity Centre of Sanskrit and Indic studies, Amity University, Haryana, 22 July 2022

• International Conference on Recent Research Trends in Adaptation Studies 2.0, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, 8 -9 April 2022

• One day National webinar on Tribal Literature: Production and reception, Government Kawzawl College, Kawzawl, Mizoram, 13 April 2018

• International Conference Dharti 2022 on The digital divide: discontents, debates, and discussions, Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations, 21 – 24 February 2022

• MESMAC International Conference, MES Mampad College, Nilambur, Kerala, 20 – 31 January 2022
• International Conference on Advanced Research INSIGHT 2022, MES KeveeyamCollge, 11 – 14 January 2022
• One-day virtual conference on language, literature, linguistics and culture – ICLLLC 2021, Shri ShankarlalShasun Jain College for Women, Chennai, 18 December 2021
• Two-day national webinar on Re-spacing menstrual narratives,Sri. C. Achutha Menon Govt.college, Thrissur, Kerala ,11 – 12 December 2021
• National conference on Resistance and revolutions: The politics of marginality, Dyal Singh Evening College, University of Delhi, 15 - 16 November 2021
• Two-Day National Conclave-Cum-Seminar On “Shifting Trajectories Of Research In Cultural Studies”, Punjab University, Chandigarh, 25-26 November 2021
• National Webinar on “Contouring New Paradigms in ELT in the Post-pandemic Milieu”, Government College, Attingal, Kerala, 12-13 November 2021
• Two-Day International Webinar on “Space, Place, and Topography: Geographical Imaginations in Indian Writings in English”, SevaBharatiMahavidyalaya, Jhargram, West Bengal, India, 24-25 September 2021
• International Virtual Conference Through the Looking Glass: Mediated Lives and Realities in Pandemic Times, Marthoma College, Thiruvalla, Kerala, 9-10 September 2021
• Three days International Virtual Conference on Voice from Margins: Exploring fringe articulations in literature and culture, SB College, Changanassery, Kerala, 6-9 September 2021
Workshops Attended 2
Refresher Courses Attended
Orientation Programmes Attended
Awards / Honours / Patents Conferred
Membership (s) in Member Board of Studies for running Add-On courses at the Department of English, Al-Shifa Arts and Science College, Keezhattur
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