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NIRMAL SELVAMONY (b. 1953)
7, Main Road Mohan Nagar
Maadampaakkam Chennai 600 126, India
Telephone: 91+44+22292340 E-mail: [email protected]
Mobile: 9884211498
MAJOR INTERESTS MUSIC, ECOCRITICISM, ECOTHEORY DRAMATIC THEORY, THEORY EDUCATION Ph.D. 1980-â88; University of Madras, Chennai, India. English; Diss.: Literary Personhood in tolkappiyam Research Fellow 1978-â82; Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, Bangalore.
Aesthetics, submitted essay: âPersonhood in Art.â
M.A. 1976-â78; Madras Christian College, Chennai. English; âAâ Grade. B.A. 1973-â76; Scott Christian College, Nagercoil, South India. English; II Class, First Rank in University.
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Since 2011 Associate Professor and Head-in-charge, Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Central University of Tamil Nadu
2010 Professor, Department of English, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
2009 Visiting Faculty, Department of English, Coordinator of Language Programmes, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu
2006 Associate Professor, Madras Christian College, Chennai. 1996- Reader in English, Madras Christian College, Chennai.
[Ecoliterature, Music and Literature, Critical Theory, Postcolonial Literature, Postmodern Survey, European and Tamil Classics, Modern Period, Social Ethics]
Teaching: B.A.; M.A.; M.Phil. Research Guidance: M.Phil., Ph.D. Ph.D. awarded: 7; 1 submitted; 3 in progress. M.Phil. awarded: 9. 1994-â95 Visiting Scholar, Davidson College, NC, USA. 1989-â96 Selection Grade Lecturer, Department of English, Madras Christian College. 1982-â89 Senior Lecturer, Lecturer; Department of English, Madras Christian College. Publications: 14 books, 50 chapters in books; more than 40 research papers in journal Conference papers: more than 100. CONTRIBUTION
Introduced the course, Ecocriticism in the Indian university system and founded a forum now known
as tiNai (formerly, OSLE-India) and also a journal (Indian Journal of Ecocriticism) to promote this course.
Introduced the first ever courses, Tamil Musicology and Music and Literature in the University of Madras. Revived
the traditional Indian philosophical tradition called âkaaTciâ (in a publication titled tamizk kaaTci neRiyiyal, 1996
[The Methodology of Tamil Philosophy], which precedes the darshanas. Conceptualized and introduced tiNai
(ecoregional) musicology that studies the music of the primordial biomic world regions (see: essays published in the
reports of Tamil Isaic Cankam, Chennai, 1991, 1995, 1996). For the past twenty-five years researched tiNai society
and published several papers on various aspects of it attempting to reconstruct it as an alternative social order. AWARDS Lifetime Achievement 2011 awarded by North East Ohio Tamil Sangam, Ohio, USA Best Monograph 2000 for the book, Persona in Tolkappiyam, awarded by International School of Dravidian Linguistics, Thiruvananthapuram 1986 Best Student, UGC Summer Institute in English Language Teaching, sponsored by
British Council Division, Chennai and CIEFL, Hyderabad, at Department of English, University of Madras, 13 October-8 November, 1986.
First Rank in BA 1976 awarded by Madurai Kamaraj University First Class 1969 Maanavar Manram Examination in Tamil, Madras.
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Certificate of Merit 1968 Petercator Examination in Scripture, awarded by
Board of Religious and Moral Instruction, South India OTHER ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS Invited to apply for the position of Professor of Music in the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and interviewed on 9 November, 2015. FORMAL/NON-FORMAL TRAINING MUSIC Mridangam 1993-94 with Venkat, Chromepet, Chennai Jazz 1980-82 with Tino Olivera, jazzman, Goa Vocal Music 1980-81 with Tiruppampuram Shanmugasundaram Vocal Music 1973-76 with Seetharaman (Kalaimamani Srinivasa Iyengarâs son) Music (Violin) 1966 Summer School in Tamil Music, Tirunelveli District Violin (Carnatic) 1960-65 with Sadagopa Iyengar, Munainjipatti, Tirunelveli Dist. Tolkaappiyam, Tamil Music, Tamil Grammar: 1978-2003 with the late Dr.V.P.K.Sundaram Renowned musicologist, Tamil scholar (student of Naavalar Somasundara Bharathi) OTHER Tolkaappiyam: 1978-79 with Dr.Natarajan, Madurai Kamaraj University Languages Sanskrit 1978 Elementary Course (Saral Sanskrit Balbodh), Sethupathi High School, Madurai German 1972 Beginnerâs, Max Muller Bhavan Hindi 1964-66 Margoschis High School, Tirunelveli District FORMAL IN-SERVICE TRAINING 2015 Completed an Elective Course, Physics of Art, at Central University of Tamil Nadu 1999 UGC Refresher Course in Linguistics, Centre for Advanced Study in Linguistics, Annamalai University,
1 Sept.-21 Sept. 1996 In-Service Teacher Development Programme, Teaching Literary Criticism and Theory, State Institute of English,
Tamil Nadu, 5 -7 February.
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1990 Workshop on Teaching Grammar Communicatively, conducted by Judith Baker, Course Director at the Pilgrims
Language Course Centre at Canterbury, UK, organized by Orient Longman & British Council Division, Chennai, 5-6 March, 1990.
1989 FIP Programme, Workshop on Syllabus Design and ELT Materials Production for Teachers of English, Directorate of Collegiate Education, Tamil Nadu, 25 January. Three-day Workshop on The Process Approach to the Development of Writing Skills, British Council Division, Chennai, 11-13 April 1989.
1987 In-Service Training Workshop on Innovative Techniques/Materials for Teaching English, Directorate of Collegiate
Education, Tamil Nadu, at British Council, Chennai, 16-18 November. 1986 UGC Summer Institute in English Language Teaching, Department of English, University of Madras, organized by
the British Council, Madras and CIEFL, Hyderabad, 13 October to 8 November (selected best student). 1985 FIP Programme, In-Service Training Seminar cum-Workshop on the Techniques of Teaching Drama for College
Teachers of English, Directorate of Collegiate Education, Tamil Nadu, 16-25 September. MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS
2014 âCease Your Sad Music.â Pier Windows, Hong Kong, 29 October to 2 November, 2014. 2014 âGoing West, Going East.â Pier Windows, Hong Kong, 29 October to 2 November, 2014. 2014 âkaNNee en kaNmaNiyee.â Pier Windows, Hong Kong, 29 October to 2 November, 2014. 2014 âDig Dig Dig Up The Sod.â Theatre Workshop, Central University of Tamil Nadu, 18-22 March, 2014. 2014 âCry Heavens Cry For Me.â Theatre Workshop, Central University of Tamil Nadu, 18-22 March, 2014. 2002 âChange Mother Change.â Mother Change. Play adaptation of Girish Karnadâs Hayavadana. Museum Theatre, Chennai, 6 April, 2002. 2002 âTwo Friends.â Mother Change. Play adaptation of Girish Karnadâs Hayavadana. Museum Theatre, Chennai, 6 April, 2002. 2002 âBow down wonât you oh headâ Mother Change. Play adaptation of Girish Karnadâs Hayavadana. Museum Theatre, Chennai, 6 April, 2002. 2002 âHeads Got Mixed Up.â Mother Change. Play adaptation of Girish Karnadâs Hayavadana. Museum Theatre, Chennai, 6 April, 2002. 1992 'yaar veeNTum col naaTanee', Vanam, Madras: Department of Tamil, Madras Christian College, 1992, pp. 36-37.
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1989 *'Curacati' (a musical opus), Madras Christian College Magazine, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai, LV,
87. 1985 *'Vatuvai Valttu' (A Wedding Song), Madras Christian College Magazine, Madras Christian College,
Tambaram, Chennai, LIV, 82.
MUSIC, THEATRE & PERFORMANCE 2015 âPerformabiltity of Cagkam Compositions.â School of Art and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 19 March 2015.
âContemporary tiNai Music.â tiNai Eco Film Festival, organized by BITS-Goa, at Rajiv Gandhi National Institute for Youth Development, Chennai, 7 February, 2015.
2014 Playing the guitar for the performance, âPier Windos,â a performance in Hong Kong, from 29 October to 2 November, 2014. 2014 Art Residency at Dakshinchitra, East Coast Road, off Chennai, 1-15 August, 2014, Composing Music
and Playing the Guitar for a performance event called âPier Windowsâ in Kwun Tong Pier, Hong Kong, organized by Dr. Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, University of Washington-Bothel, USA. <www.pierwindows.com/?page_id=10>
âWater!: Theatre Workshopâ conducted by Dr. Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren and Dr. Nirmal Selvamony,
18-22 March, 2014, Central University of Tamil Nadu. Music Composition, Direction, and Guitar, Nirmal Selvamony.
2011 Contemporary tiNai music. Musical Discourse. Rojah Muthiah Library, Chennai, 29 July 2011. âThe Music of the Landscapes.â Guitar Musical Discourse. Carleton College, Minnessota, USA.
tiNai music. North East Ohio Tamil Sangam, Ohio, USA, 21 May 2011. 2009 Performance of cankam poems, Department of Music, Elmhurst College, Chicago, USA, 4 May. "The Singing Land" A Guitar Recital at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA, 8 April. 2002 Scripted, directed and scored music for Mother Change, an adaptation of Girish Karnadâs Hayavadana, staged at Museum Theatre, Chennai, 6 April, 2002. 2001 Composed music for cenniir (Blood), a play directed by Bharatiprabhu, performed at Museum Theatre,
Egmore, Chennai, on 6 March 2001, and sponsored by paalam, an NGO. 1995 âDreaming of Home: A Cross-Cultural Collaborative Performance of Music and Poetry, Department of Music, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 28036, USA, 21 March. 1981-1982 Professional Guitarist in the music band at Fort Aguada Beach Resort Hotel (Taj Group), Goa. VISITING FACULTY 2015 Carleton College, Minneapolis, 26, 28 April. Lectures through Skype
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âTamil Christian Music.â Course on South Asian Religion. Carleton College, Minneapolis, USA, 2015 (though skype on 29 April)
âThe Sacred in Dravidian India.â Course on South Asian Religion. Carleton College, USA (though skype on 26 April)
2014 Hong Kong University, 23 October 2011 Carleton College, Minneapolis, 15-19 May. 2010 Visiting Professor, Department of English, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Spring 2010. 2009 University of Hawaii, USA, 8-10 April. Queenâs University, Belfast, N.Ireland, 6-9 May. Elmhurst College, Chicago, USA, 4 May. 2006 Karnatak University, Dharwad, 17-31 January. 2005 University of Klagenfurt, Austria, 28 April-2 May. Universitat Dortmund, Germany, 22-23 November. Freie Universitat , Berlin, Germany, 24 November. 1995 Rutgers University at Newark, USA, 18 April. 1994-1995 Davidson College, NC, USA INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC VISIT 2015 Visiting Ne Na Contemporary Art Space (Chiang Mai, Thailand) and meeting artists, 12-19 Februrary 2015. CITING NIRMAL SELVAMONY
Buell, Lawrence. âEcocriticism: Some Emerging Trends.â Qui Parle 19.2 (Spring/Summer 2011): 87-115.
Patrick D Murphy, Transversal Ecocritical Praxis: Theoretical Arguments. Literary Analysis and Cultural Critique. Lexington Books, 2013, 160. Garard., Greg. âProblems and Prospects in Ecocritical Pedagogy.â Environmental Education Research, 2010 (16:2)
Slovic, Scott. âGreen Trends in International Literary Studies: Many Voices, Same Songs.â
Association of Swedish Teachers and Researchers in America, Washington, DC, 15 October 2010.
Christine Gerhardt. A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World. U of Iowa P, 2014, x. Ingram, Annie Merill. âPreface.â Words for a Small Planet: Ecocritical Views. Nanette Norris. Lexington Books,
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Bloomer, Kristin. âTamil Tropes, Modern Selves: The Poetics of Possession in Urban Tamil Nadu.â Paper in 40th Annual Conference on South Asia. Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 2011.
Kochhar-Lindgren, Kanta. âDramatizing Water: Performance, Anthropology and the Transnational.â The Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities V 2 (2013): 22-33. ISSN 0975-2935 Tharaud, Barry and Elizabeth Pallito, ed. âIntroduction.â The Endangered Planet in Literature: Selected
Proceedings. An International Conference at Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey, 16-18 November, 2005, 5-14.
Krishnaswamy, Revathi. âToward World Literary Knowledges: Theory in the Age of Globalization.â
Comparative Literature 2010 62. 4 (2010): 399-419. pancaangkam. âcuuzhaliyal tiRanaayvu.â (Environmental Criticism). ilakkiyamum tiRanaayvuk
kooTpaaTukaLum (Literature and Critical Theories). 352-262. (Tamil essay) Caprioli, Leonella Grasso and Conservatorio di Musica di Vicenza âEcomusicology: A Key to Understand
Harmony,â 3rd International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Venice, 19-23 September, 2012.
Desai, Hemang A. âSong of Subaltern: Arun Kolatkarâs Kala Ghoda Poems.â 2008.
Source: www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=92027 TEACHING EXPERIENCE COURSES INTRODUCED MUSIC 2004-5 Music and Literature, an Interdisciplinary Course for all the Undergraduates, Madras Christian College, Chennai. 1985 Tamil Musicology, an optional course, MA, Department of English, Madras Christian College, Chennai LITERATURE 1994 Ecoliterature, an optional course for IV Semester, M.A., English Literature, Madras Christian College, Tambaram,
Chennai. 1985 Tamil Poetics, an optional course, MA, Department of English, Madras Christian College, Chennai
SHORT COURSES OFFERED
2006 Semiotics and Tolkaappiyam, Karnatak University, Dharwad, 17-31 January, 2006. A course organized by the Central
Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.
2000 Languages and Culture, a unit of the 3-credit course, People and Cultures of India, for students of Concordia University,
Nebraska, USA, at the Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 10 March to 7 April, 2000.
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Beginning Tamil Course to students from Europe, UK and USA for more than 20 years.
Short Courses on Tamil Classics to students from Study Abroad Programmes at Madras Christian College, Chennai.
COURSES TAUGHT 1) Undergraduate Level English: Literature MUSIC Music and Literature, Interdisciplinary Course, II UG Tamil Musicology, Interdisciplinary Course, III UG Tamil Poetry and Music (USA) LITERATURE Practical Introduction to Literature, I BA Indian Writing in English, III BA Womenâs Writing in India, III BA Modern Period (Prose), III BA American Literature (Prose), III BA European and Tamil Classics, III BA Indian Ecocriticism (USA) Introduction to Comparative Literature Non-Dravidian Indian Literature Introduction to Dravidian Literature English: Language General English both Remedial and non-Remedial Value Education Social Ethics (Convenor at MCC ) Art Indian Art (USA) 2) Postgraduate Level English: Literature Literary Interpretation Age of Elizabeth (Prose) Neo-Classical Age (Prose) Modern Period (Poetry) Literary Criticism General Essay Critical Theory Since 1965 Ecoliterature (formerly, Tamil Poetics) Postcolonial Literature Critical Theory (Theory and Cultural Criticism) Interdepartmental Classes Tamil Literature (cilappatikaaram) for Tamil Postgraduates Intercollegiate Classes
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Tolkaappiyam for Postgraduates and Research Scholars of other colleges 3) Continuing Education Coordinator, PG Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication, Madras Christian College. 4) M.Phil.Level (since 1990) Research Methodology Twentieth Century Criticism Critical Theory 5) Ph.D. Level (since 1990): Advisor; member of doctoral committees of several
colleges; external examiner for doctoral students of Madras University and other universities as well ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE MUSIC & THEATRE 2013 Member, Advisory Committee, Tamizh Icaic Cangam, Chennai; meeting on 9 September, 2013. 2014 Organised Theatre Workshop with Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, at Central University of Tamil Nadu,
18-23 March 2015 2002 Secretary, tamizicaiyiyal uyarnilai aayvu manRam. (Forum for Advanced Research in Tamil Musicology),
Madurai, 2002. 1991-1992 Secretary, tennaka icaittamiz aayvup peeravai (Academy for Research in South Indian Musicology),
Chennai, 1991-1992. OTHER 2016 Registrar (Acting), Central University of Tamil Nadu, 6-7 January 2016 2015 Member, Sectional Committee, GIAN, MHRD, India. From November 2015
Vice-Chancellor-in-charge, Central University of Tamil Nadu, 12-14 March; 7-9 January, 2015. Nodal Officer, Unnat Bharat Abhiyan. Central University of Tamil Nadu. From 2015-
Consultant, Project funded by US Embassy, New Delhi, on âWindows At The Edge of Water: Toward Our Future Citiesâ coordinated by Dr. Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Macalaster College, St. Paul, MN, USA.
2014 Editorial Advisor, Editorial Board, Literary Explorer: An Annual Publication of Critical Studies in English Language and Literature. Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli. (Since December 2014-;
see Literary Explorer 12. 1 (December 2014). ISSN 0973 0524 2014 Member, Board of Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Central University of Kerala, Kerala. Till present 2014 Deputy Superintendent, Central University Common Entrance Test, 26, 27 April, 2014,
Central University of Tamil Nadu.
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2014 Member, Internal Quality Assessment Cell, Central University of Tamil Nadu, since 9 October, 2013. 2013 Member, Academic Council, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Tiruvarur, Tamil Nadu. 2013 Member, Executive Council, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Tiruvarur, Tamil Nadu. 2013 Member, Board of Studies, Department of English, Sadakatullah Ayya College, Tirunelveli, 2013-2015. 2013 Member, Board of Studies, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore. 2013-Till present. 2012 Member, Panel of Experts, Faculty Recruitment for Central University of Tamil Nadu, at Madras School of
Economics, Chennai, 10-18 May 2012, at Central University of Tamil Nadu, Tiruvarur, on Sunday 3 June, 2012. 2012 Member, Panel of Experts, Administrative Staff Recruitment for Central University of Tamil Nadu,
at Central University of Tamil Nadu, Tiruvarur, on Sunday 4 June, 2012. 2012 Member, Academic Council, Periyar Maniammai University, 8.3.2012â8.3.2014 2011 Head-in-charge, Department of English Studies, Central University of Tamil Nadu. Till present. 2010 Member, Advisory Committee for English at Central University of Tamil Nadu. Coordinator, Language Studies, Central Universities Common Entrance Test. Programme Director and Coordinator, Study Abroad Programme of Queenâs University, Belfast, N.Ireland,
January-February, 2010 in India. 2010 Member, District Level Committee on the Creation of marutam tiNai Genetic Park, State Agriculture Department,
GO 221, dated 30/09/2010
2009-2011 Coordinator of Language Programmes, Head, Department of English, Central University of Tamil Nadu 2009 Eco Advisor, PeeVee Inc., 1587, Bluebell St., Livermore, California 94551. 2008 Member, Academic Council, Madras Christian College, Chennai, 2008. 2008 Founder, Indian Journal of Ecocriticism, the official journal of OSLE-India, 2008. 2007 Conducted a Workshop on Ecoliterature at Meenakshi College for Women, Chennai, 2 February, 2007. 2007 Chairperson, II International Conference of OSLE-India, Bangalore, 8-9 June, 2007. 2007 General Secretary, Indian Association for Studies in Contemporary Literatures in English, Allahabad, 2007. 2006-7 Member, Board of Studies in English, Meenakshi College for Women, Chennai, 2006-2007. 2006 Academic Coordinator, Davidson Semester-in-India Programme, Madras Christian College, 2006.
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NAAC Committee Member, Faculty Performance Assessment Committee, Meenakshi College for Women, Chennai, 2006. Organiser with Prof. Vincent. I International Conference of OSLE-India, Chennai, 18-19 September, 2006.
Member, Expert Committee for assessing the performance of the faculty of English, Meenakshi College for
Women, Chennai, for NAAC requirement, 2006. Conducted Faculty Development Programme, Acharya Institute of Management and Sciences, Bangalore,
11 November, 2006. 2005 Member, Expert Committee Meeting, Project titled, âBhasha Mandakiniâ of Central Institute of Indian Languages,
Mysore, 2-5 May, 2005. 2005 General Secretary, IASCL (Indian Association for Studies in Contemporary Literature XII All-India English Teachers
Annual Convention and International Conference on âContemporary Thought and New Literatures in Englishâ at Department of English, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, UP, on December 15, 16, 2005. Founded OSLE-India (Organisation for Studies in Literature and Environment-India) and serve as its President, 2005.
2004 Organiser with Prof.Victor Frederick, III World Conference of XI All-India English Teachers Annual Conference
on Contemporary Literatures in English, 20-21 December, 2004. 2004 English Expert, National Screening Committee, Fulbright Visiting Lecturerships, USEFI, Chennai, 9 Sept. 2004. 2003 Organiser, Seminar on Diversity and Identity in Tamil Narrative Tradition, sponsored by Katha, New Delhi,
12 September, 2003. 2002 English Expert, National Screening Committee, Fulbright Visiting Lecturerships, USEFI, Chennai, 28 August, 2002.
Member, Journal Committee, Service and Research Institute on Family and Children (SERFAC), Chennai. Chief Guest & Speaker, Awareness Programme for Irular Community in Kancheepuram District, 14 August, 2002. Title of Lecture: âGovernment Policies and Initiatives for Irular.â
2000 Organiser, Workshops on "The Impact of Environmental Degradation", Madras Christian College, Chennai, July, August, 2000. 'Tamil Ecopoetics' UGC Refresher Course for English Teachers, Madras Christian College,
Chennai, 12 February, 2000. 1998 Editorial Committee, Self-Study 1997-1998, Madras Christian College, Chennai, 1998. 1997 Panelist, Translating Genres other than the short story, Katha, 1997. 1995-1996 Course Supervisor, PG Diploma in Journalism & Mass Communication, Department of Continuing Education, Madras Christian College, Chennai, 1995-1996. Member of Committee to discuss UGC requirements concerning Workshop on Autonomy, 3 November 1995. 1991-2000 Member (from 1991-2000), Tamil Bhasha Samiti, K.K.Birla Foundation, New Delhi. Saraswati Samman: 1991-2000.
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Ed. B.N. Tandon. New Delhi: K.K.Birla Foundation, 2003, 674. ISBN: 81-8143-019-0
Coordinator of Independent Study Projects, Davidson Semester-in-India Programme, Madras Christian College, Chennai. September-November., 1991
Organised several Workshops, Seminars and Conferences during the past 27 years of service at Madras Christian College, Chennai.
1989 Member of a team of University teachers to prepare a Prose Anthology for I year UG of the University of Madras, 1989. 1988-1994 Member, Academic Council. Madras Christian College, Chennai, 1988-1994. 1988-1994 Convenor, Social Ethics, Madras Christian College, Chennai, 1988-1994. 1987 Organiser, a session of UGC Summer Institute on English Literature Teaching at the British Council, Madras,
20 August, 1987. 1986-88 Secretary, Community of English Language Teachers (CELT), University Grants Commission (UGC), Summer
Institute Follow-up group for teachers of English, 1986-88. 1986 Director of the COHSSIP (College Humanities and Social Science Improvement Programme), Department of English,
Madras Christian College, Chennai, 1986. 1983- 1985 Founder, tiNai (discussion group), Madras Christian College, Chennai, 1983-85. 1977 Member of a team for planting 500 saplings in IAF in collaboration with IAF, Tambaram & A-TEEAM, a voluntary
youth group to celebrate World Environment Day on 5 June 1977. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 2015 Visiting Ne Na Contemporary Art Space (Chiang Mai, Thailand) and meeting artists, 12-19 Februrary 2015. 2011 Reviewer, The Journal for English Language and Literature Studies (TJELLS), 2011. 2006 Peer Reviewer, âEnvironmentalism and Imperial Manhood in Jim Corbettâs The Man Eating Leopard of Rudrapryag submitted for publication in Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. RESEARCH SUPERVISION 1990- M.Phil. (29 June) and Ph.D. Guidance Permission (7 December) from University of Madras
Ph.D Ph.D. Awarded
MUSIC, THEATRE, PERFORMANCE
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1. Lilian Charles, âPlay Element in Albee and Pinter,â full-time, registered; awarded, July 1997 2. Suja Pothen, âWomen in the Agricultural Folksongs of Central Kerala,â full-time, registered 2000; awarded 2008 3. Rayson K. Alex, âSymbiosis in the Songs of Mudugar,â full-time, registered 2005; awarded 2010 Ph.D. in progress
Shobhana P. Devadasan, âTowards Reading Song in Performance as Aural Narratives: A Study of the Work of Mark Knopfler.â Christ University, Bangalore, part-time, registered 2010
EXTERNAL EXAMINER
1.Anjana Puri, âVoice, Rhythm and Movement: Towards a Pedagogical Model for Training the Actor with special reference to Indian Music Traditions,â June 2007
2. Nagaradhika, R. â Standinâ Up And Telling It As It Is: An Approach to Australian Aboriginal History and Identity
Through Text, Interview and Performance,â University of Madras, June 2005 3. Koo. Canmukaveel. cilampil arankeerru kaataiyinicaippakutikal. Ph.D.diss. submitted to Madurai Kamaraj
University, Madurai, March1994. 4. Karmegam, âSacrificing Dissent, Celebrating Tragedy: Revisiting Theatre, Ritual, and Performance with reference to
Kalari Festivals of TamilNadu,â Jawaharlal University, New Delhi, 2015. (viva voce:19 March 2015) DOCTORAL COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR NON-SUPERVISED CANDIDATES Koo. Canmukaveel. cilampil arankeerru kaataiyinicaippakutikal. Ph.D.diss. submitted to Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, March1994. Ph.D. Awarded
LITERATURE & LANGUAGE
1. N.C.Rama, âImagery in the poetry of Ci.Mani and Es. Vaitisvaran: A Comparative Study,â 2001;
full-time registered; awarded 2003 2 .Priscilla Josephine Sarah, âA Study of the Intelligibility of Spoken English Among B.Ed. Trainees in Tamil Nadu,â full-time, registered 1999; awarded 2005 3. Radha Bhat, âEthnic Conflict in Harper Leeâs To Kill a Mocking Bird and Arundhati Royâs
The God of Small Things,â April 2005; part-time, registered 1999; awarded 2006 4. Bernadine Mary Antony, âHybrid Identities: A Study of the Fiction of Two Late Twentieth Century Writers
of the Indian Diaspora, Meera Syal and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, part-time, registered 2004; awarded 2007
5.Jayashri, K. âThe Enchanted Forest in Patricia Wredeâs The Enchanted Forest Chronicles is Representative
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of the Bilaterally Interrelational Oikos of the Secondary World,â full-time, registered 2002; awarded February 2009
6.Aleena Manoharan, âA Bioregional Reading of Select Plays of Jack Davis,â full-time, registered 2002; awarded 2008
7. Susan Deborah, âAn Ecocritical Reading of the Narratives of aRavaaNikal of T.kalluppaTTi,â University of Madras; full-time, registered 2007; awarded 2014 Co-Guide 2015 Co-guide, Arivalagan, âForests, Environmental Change and Tribal Communities in Colonial Tamil Nadu.â (Supervisor: A. R. Venkatachalapathy), Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. 2009-2015 Ph.D. in progress 1. Subarna De, âA Bioregional Reading of Select Novels on Coorg.â Central University of Tamil Nadu, full-time
registered 2012. 2. Sayantan Chakraborty, âAn Ecotheoretical Reading of Khasi Poetry.â Central University of Tamil Nadu, full-time
registered 2012. 3. Shobhana Mathews. âTowards Reading Song in Performance as the Aural Narratives: A Study of the Work of
Mark Knopfler.â Christ University, Bangalore, registered 2010; submitted Synopsis in 2016. 4. Padmakumar, Department of English, âCultural Politics of Sports and Nationalism in Popular Indian Cinema.â
Christ University, Bangalore; part-time, registered 2011 5. Tana Trivedi, Department of English, Christ University, Bangalore; part-time, registered 2011. 6. Sreyashi Dhar, âRepresentation of Women in Select Films of Rituparno Ghosh and Shyam Benegal.â
Department of English, Christ University, Bangalore; part-time, registered, 2011.
EXTERNAL EXAMINER Ph.D. in English
1. Padmini Bernard Fenn, âThe Sea in the Plays of Eugene OâNeill,â April 2009, (Manonmaniam Sundaranar University)
2. R. Sreelatha, âIndian Literature from an Ecofeminist Perspective with special reference to Mahaswetha Deviâs works,â 18.2.2005 3. K.M.Robert Sam Raj, âJohn Bunyanâs The Pilgrimâs Progress and H.A. Krishna Pillaiâs Iratcaniya Yaattirikam:
A Comparative Study,â June 2000
4. V.K. Venkata Lakshmi, âAn Ecocritical Reading of Some Contemporary Tamil Poems in English,â Annamalai University, M.Phil., May 2007
5. Jasmine Sally Devadhas, âBetrayal and Affirmation of Faith in Graham Swiftâs Novels,â University of Madras, 2007
DOCTORAL COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR NON-SUPERVISED CANDIDATES 1. Co-guide, Arivalagan, âForests, Environmental Change and Tribal Communities in Colonial Tamil Nadu.â
(Supervisor: A. R. Venkatachalapathy), Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. 2009-2015
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2. Co-guide, Nitha G. Nair, âCritiquing Participation: A Reflection on Womenâs Inclusion in Forest Management.â (Supervisor: Ajith Menon), Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. From 2009-
3. Mrs. R. Sreelatha, Indian Literature from an Ecofeminist Perspective with special reference to Mahaswetha Deviâs works,â 18.2.2005
4. K.N.Shoba, âTowards Ecoethnicism: Converging Indigenous and Ecological Consciousness in Select Native
Canadian Fiction,â 10.2.2006 5. T.Sumathy Tamizhacci Tangapandian, âDiasporic Writing of the Srilankan Tamil Migrants in Australia.â
Ethiraj College, Chennai, 2005. Ph. D. Dissertations on Nirmal Selvamonyâs theory of tiNai Poetics (Oikopoetics) 1. G. Ruby, âPoems of Robert Frost: Oikopoetic Dimension.â Bharatidasan University, August 2007.
Supervisor: Suresh Frederick.
2. Jayashri, K. âThe Enchanted Forest in Patricia Wredeâs The Enchanted Forest Chronicles is Representative of the Bilaterally Interrelational Oikos of the Secondary World,â full-time, registered 2002; awarded February 2009.
M.Phil. MUSIC &THEATRE 1996-97 Suja Pothen, âAgricultural Folksongs of Central Kerala.â 2001-02 B.Devi Kamala, âAustralian Indigenous Theatre: A Study of Three Aboriginal Plays: Stolen,
Box The Pony, The 7 Stages of Grieving,â April 2004 EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR M.Phil.
Mudasir Ahmad Mir, âHarold Pinterâs Contribution to the Theatre of the Absurd.â M.Phil. diss. Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, 2014.
1990- M.Phil. (University of Madras); Awarded: 16 LITERATURE, LANGUAGE
1. 1990-91 E. Anbarasan, âDeep Ecological Study of Thoreau.â 2. 1991-92 Beneson Thilagar Christudoss, A Structuralist Analysis of the Folktales of Narikkuravar,â June 1993 3. 1992-93 Bindu V. Nair, 4. 1993-94 Annie Mary Sam, âWoman as portrayed in Ibsenâs A Dollâs House and N.Krishna Pillaiâs Kanyaka,â 1993-94. 5. 1993-94 K.S. Usha Nair, âIndianization of English in Indian English Fiction with Special Reference to
Raja Raoâs Kanthapura,â 1993-94. 6. 1995-96 K.M. Shyni, âUntouchability in Mulk Raj Anandâs Untouchable and Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillaiâs
tooTTiyuTe makan: A Comparative Study,â August 1998 7. 1997-98 Raj Bushan Chakravarthi 8. 1998-99 K. Deepa 9. 1998-99 R. Anupama, âProblems of Translation in M.T.Vasudevan Nairâs Kaalam, The Demon Seed
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and Second Turn,â December 1999 10. 1999-2000 James Peter 11. 2002-03 J. Frederick Allen Chandran, âChinua Achebeâs Things Fall Apart: An Ecocritical Analysis,â November 2004 12. 2003-04 Susan Deborah, âRegeneration and Four Myths,â May 2006 13. 2004-05 Valerie Kiran Raj, âWriting Skills in the English Classroom with reference to the ICSE and CBSE Syllabi of Classes IX and X,â May 2007 14. 2006-07 B. Bhavani 15. 2009-10 Bijoyini Mukherjee, âWuthering Heights: An Ecocritical Study,â February 2010
GUIDE FOR RESEARCH CANDIDATES IN OTHER UNIVERSITIES
M.Phil. in Journalism and Mass Commuication 1. N. Watson Solomon, âA Quantitative Analysis of Media Language,â December 2006, Madurai Kamaraj University,
M.Phil in English 1. G. Franklin Wilfred, ââNature-centred or Man-centred: A Study of Ted Hughesâs Poetry,â Department of English,
(DDE), Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, May 2006 2. Monsingh Daniel, âThe Territorial Imperative in Ice-Candy Man and Train to Pakistan: An Ecocritical Reading,â
November 2009 EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR M.A.
University of Madras, from 2000.
PAPER SETTER FOR OTHER COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES M.Phil. A Course in Fiction (2ME1), Thiagarajar College, Madurai, 2002. PG British Literature III, The Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, 2003. RESEARCH CONSULTANCY MUSIC, PERFORMANCE
2012 With Kanta Kochhar, University of Washington, and Inder Salim, SARAI, Centre for Studies in Developing Societies
(CSDS), New Delhi. Planning for a two-week programme in Delhi on Performance on the theme of Water, at SARAI, CSDS, New Delhi, 24, 25 July 2012.
2011 Consultant, Ragamala Dance, a dance troupe in Minneapolis, USA, 2011. 1994 Faculty Advisor for Dr.Joseph Gardner, Department of Theatre, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, USA, 1994.
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OTHER 2014 For Siffo Kumeds working on tiNai poetics, supervised by Dr. Suresh Frederick, Bishop Heber College,
Tiruchi, 7-17 March. 2013 Skype-Interviewed by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Associate Vice-Chancellor for Undergraduate Learning, Professor,
Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Washington at Bothell, USA, on DESIGN on 8 January 2013,
as part of a thread of University of Washington at Bothellâs Forum on Innovation: Engaging Design.
2013 Formation of syllabus for Ecocriticsm course in the Department of Modern Indian Languages,
University of Delhi, Delhi, 2013. 2013 Peer Review of âTigers, Trees and Environmental Visions: A Look at Indian Nature Writing.â
For Viruses and Weeds: Ecopoetics After Postmodernism by Cordula Lemke and Jennifer Wawrzinek to be published
by WVT, Trier, 2013.
2012 Preetha Mani, Rutgers University at New Brunswick, USA.
Remi Tournebize, Agronomy scholar, SupAgro, Montpellier, France.
2010 Faculty Advisor to Raphaela Holinsk, School of English, Queenâs University, Belfast, Ireland, 2010. 2008-2009 N.Komala, âAnalysis of Self-Realization in the Psalms of Thirumangaialwar,â M.Phil.Diss., 2008-2009.
University of Madras, 2008-2009. 2007-8 Faculty Advisor to Ms.Heidi Danzl (Department of English, Salzburg University, Austria) who audited my Ecoliterature Course at Madras Christian College, Chennai, and obtained research guidance, 2007-2008. 2005 Advised E.D.Israel Oliver King, âSacred Forests of Kolli Hills, Tamil Nadu, India: A Study on Botany, Ecology and
Community Interactions,â April 2005
2003 Faculty Advisor to Miss Leyla Knittweiss, Newcastle University, UK, 2003. 1999 G. Lakshmi. âLandscape in Modern Indian Poetry in English.â University of Madras. Registered as a full-time
doctoral scholar in 1999 and later discontinued. 1994 Peer-reviewed essay for Trumpeter, a Canadian journal of Ecocriticism, 1994. 1991 Advised Lakshmi Ramachandran, âThe Gothic Mode in Fiction.â Several discussions in 1991-1992. SHORT COURSES OFFERED 2006 Semiotics and Tolkaappiyam, Karnatak University, Dharwad, 17-31 January. A course organized by the Central
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Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. 2000 Languages and Culture, a unit of the 3-credit course, People and Cultures of India, for students of Concordia University, Nebraska, USA, at the Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 10 March to 7 April.
Beginning Tamil Course to students from Europe, UK and USA for more than 20 years. Short Courses on Tamil Classics to students from Study Abroad Programmes at Madras Christian College, Chennai.
1994 Ecoliterature, an optional course for IV Semester, M.A., English Literature, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai. 1985 Tamil Poetics, an optional course, MA, Department of English, Madras Christian College, Chennai. PUBLICATIONS BOOKS MUSIC
Introduction to Tamil Musicology. Monograph submitted to Central Institute for Classical Tamil, Chennai. (Unpublished)
1989 The Unsung Melodies: The Story of Palavecam Ceervaikkaaran. (A Tamil Ballad) Trans. V.Murugan. Eds. Nirmal Selvamony, R.Nirmala Devi and Thasarathan. Madras: Institute of Asian Studies.
OTHER Paripaatal. A Critical Edition of English Translations submitted to Central Institute for Classical Tamil,
Chennai. 2009 Value Education Today: Explorations in Social Ethics. Eds. J.T.K.Daniel and Nirmal Selvamony. Chennai: New Century Book House, reprint, 2009. 2007 Essays in Ecocriticism. Eds. Nirmal Selvamony, Watson Solomon and Rayson K. Alex. Chennai: OSLE-India, New Delhi: Sarup and Sons. 1999 Living and Feeling: An Anthology of Indian Womenâs Writing in English. Eds. P.Rajani, V.Rajagopalan and Nirmal Selvamony. Chennai: Department of English and Centre for Womenâs Studies, Madras Christian College. (textbook) Changing Face of the Coastal Zone Between Chennai and Mamallapuram Eds. Nirmal Selvamony, Bagavandas, Rajani and Dayanandan. Chennai: Madras Christian College. Who Says My Hand A Needle Better Fits: An Anthology of American Women Writers. Eds. P. Rajani, V. Rajagopalan and Nirmal Selvamony. Chennai: Department of English & Centre for Womenâs Studies, Madras Christian College. (textbook) 1998 Persona in Tolkaappiyam. Chennai: International Institute of Tamil Studies.
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1996 Other Eyes and Other Voices: An Anthology of Women's Writing. Eds. P.Rajani, V.Rajagopalan and Nirmal Selvamony. Madras: Department of English, and Centre for Women's Studies, Madras Christian College. (textbook) tamizhk kaaTci neRiyiyal. (Methodology in Tamil Philosophy). Chennai: International Institute of Tamil Studies. 1990 Value Education Today: Explorations in Social Ethics. Eds. J.T.K.Daniel and Nirmal Selvamony. Madras:
Madras Christian College and All-India Association for Christian Higher Education (AIACHE), New Delhi. (in use as Course Book for Value Education in some colleges in India).
1986 Coursebooks for English as Second Language (4 volumes). Tambaram : Madras Christian College.
(produced by me as Director of the UGCâs COSSHIP programme of the Department) (unpublished textbooks). TRANSLATION Tamil Translation of O.Henry's "Ransom of the Red Chief, for Katha, New Delhi, and the USIS, Chennai.
Selected poems of Mayuram Vedanayagar (1826 - 1889) (to be published)
1991 âCome Out O Panther.â Selected Poems of Bharathidasan, Tiruchirapalli: Bharathidasan University, pp. 249-50. 1990 The Story of Palavecam Cervaikkaran (translation of a long Tamil folk ballad) (unpublished).
3 poems of Bharathidasan, for Department of Tamilology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchi, March 10. (unpublished). 'Seventy Poems on the Plough' in Er Elupatu, Tirukkaivalakkam, ed. C.Karalacinkam, Madras: Aintinaip Patippakam,
pp. 117-136 d. 1989 The Unsung Melodies: The Story of Palavecam Ceervaikkaaran. (A Tamil Ballad) Trans. V.Murugan. Eds.
Nirmal Selvamony, R.Nirmala Devi and Thasarathan. Madras: Institute of Asian Studies. 1989.
Akattinai Iyal, (of Tolkappiyam), Nagercoil: Sobitham Pathippakam.
Assisted in the translation of Teen Malarkal by Murugatasan, Pumpukar: Tenral Patippakam, 1989.
1988 Selected Poems (14) of Alandur Ko.Mohanarangam (to be read at the X World Congress of Poets, Thailand, Nov.
(unpublished).
Improved the translation of Porul Atikaaram of Tolkappiyam for International School of Dravidian Linguistics,
Trivandrum. 1987 'Shadow'. English: A Research Journal, Department of English, Madras Christian College, Tambaram,
1987-88, 30-34 (translation of author's Tamil Play nizhal).
*Tamil Translation of O.Henry's "Ransom of the Red Chief, for Katha, New Delhi, and the USIS, Chennai. Selected poems of Mayuram Vedanayagar (1826 - 1889), for The United Theological College, 63 Miller's Road, Bangalore 560046 (to be published)
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BOOK SECTION EDITOR 2014 Section: âLogic in the Tamil Tradition.â Ed. Springer Handbook on Indian Logic. Ed. Sundar Sarukkai.
To be published by Springer. ESSAYS IN BOOKS MUSIC, THEATRE 2014 âOn Barmanâs Translational Tryst Through a kuRuntokai Song.â Kurndoheir Kabita. Trans. Bijoy Sankar Barman.
Guwahati: Panchajanya, 2014, 119-121. ISBN 978-81-921779-1-5 2011 âpaN.â Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Vol. VIII. Ed. Kapil Kapoor. New Delhi: Rupa & Co., 2011, 1.
ISBN HB: 9788129115881 âpaaNar.â Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Vol. VIII. Ed. Kapil Kapoor. New Delhi: Rupa & Co., 2011, 1-2.
ISBN HB: 9788129115881
2009 âniilakaNTa yaazhppaaNarin yaazh.â kireekkattiRkuppoona tamizhicai. Ed. ka.vicayakumar. koovai: tamizhoocai patippakam, 2009, 11-15.
2006 âkaLam as Heterotopia.â Folklore as Discourse. Ed. M.D. Muthukumaraswamy. Chennai: National Folklore Support Centre, 2006, 165-190. Print. ISBN 81-901481-6-8. 2003 *"Icaip peerarinar V.P.K.Sundaranaar", Tamil Valarcciyil Kirictavac Caanroor. Eds.P.S.Yesudasan, Michael Faraday.
Chennai: Tamil Ilakkiyat Tamilp Peeravai Veliyiitu. 1999 âTamil Christian Hymn: A Postcolonial Critique.â On Translation. Ed. M.Valarmathi.
Chennai: International Institute of Tamil Studies, 1999, 357-372. 1997 âtaamparam eekamparanarin nurru ettut taalat tiruppukal nuul.â (about Mr.Ekamparam's book entitled tiruppukal
songs in 108 musical timings) T.Ekamparam. nuurru ettut taalat tiruppukal. Tambaram: Iraipani Manram. 1991 âArunagiri Through Tolkappiyam.â Madhura Kala: Silver Jubilee Commemoration Volume. Eds. K.Lakshminarasimhan, M.Hariharan, and Sharada Gopalan. Trivandrum: CBH Publications and Madurai: Sri Sathguru Sangeetha Vidyalayam, 1991, 193-204. ISBN 81 85381 14 3 OTHER
2016 Interweaving Performance Cultures. Workshop in International Research Center, Berlin, W.Germany,
11-16 October. (To be published)
âLogic in tolkaappiyam.â Springer Handbook on Indian Logic. Ed. Sundar Sarukkai. Springer (Submitted; To be published)
âLogic in Tamil Tradition.â Springer Handbook on Indian Logic. Ed. Sundar Sarukkai. Springer (Submitted;
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To be published) âDevelopment Poetics: A tiNai Aesthetic View.â Aesthetics of Development. Ed. John Clammer and
Ananta Kumar Giri. Palgrave Macmillan. (To be published) /* âwhat is A fig?â Ecodocumentaries: Critical Essays. Ed. Rayson K. Alex. Palgrave Macmillan. (To be published)
2015 âPossession as Address.â Ecocriticism and Religion. Ed. Animesh Roy. (To be published) âThe Ecocritical Turn of Theory.â Ecocriticism at Threshold. Ed. Robert Marztec. (To be published) âTheory Gazes At tiNai: New Directions in Tamil Poetry and Poetics.â Literary Criticism Today: Texts, Trends
and Issues. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2014. (to be published)
âCommunitas Harmonia in Wordsworth: A Musicosociological Glance.â Transformative Harmony. Ed. Ananta Kumar Giri. Cambridge Scholars Press. (to be published)
âEcorights and Responsibility.â New Horizons of Human Development. Ed. Ananta Kumar Giri. New Delhi: Studera Press, 2015.
âVikram Seth and the New Poetics.â Critical Essays on Indian English Poets. Ed. Joseph Dorairaj and Hema
V. Raghavan. Wordsworth India, 2015. âAn Ecolinguistic Window on Globalization.â Globalization and the Teaching of English. Sanjay Goyal
and N. Krishnaswamy. Delhi: Vijaya Books, 2015, 100-117. ISBN 978 9381480 793 2014 âNew Flowers on an Old Tree: Colonial Development and Contemporary Tamil Poetry.â Aspects of
South Indian History: A Reawakening. A Commemoration-Volume in Honour of Dr. T. Sundararaj. Ed. V.M.Selvamony. Nagercoil: Jama Foundation, 2014, 59-67 .
âAuthorship in the Light of tiNai.â Culture and Media: Ecocritical Explorations. Ed. Rayson K. Alex, Susan Deborah and Sachin Dev. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, 170-188. ISBN-10: 1443859710 ISBN-13: 978-1443859714 2012 âtiNai as Tree: Revisiting Tree Worship in tiNai societies.â Ecology and Life Writing. Hornung, Alfred
and Zhao Baisheng. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2012, 89-104. ISBN: 978-3-8253-5892-1 âtiNai and Language Theory.â Contemporary Contemplations of Ecocriticism. Ed. Suresh Frederick.
New Delhi: Authors Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-81-7273-642-2 âTinai Social Order: One of the Origins of Indian Ecological Literature.â Ecological Literature. Ed. Liu Qinghan. Peopleâs Publishing House, 2012, 109-120. ISBN: 978-7-01-010912-1
âDravidian Religion.â Oxford Encyclopedia of South Asian Christianity. Vol.1. Oxford UP, 2012, 232-234.
2011 âtiNai poetics and Tamil Poetry.â Horizons: Critical Perspectives on Language and Literature. Ed. Suresh Frederick. Thanjavur: Amirthamani Publications, 2011. (ISBN 978-81-920985-1-7)
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2010 âEsthetic Approach to Nayak Art.â Recent Researches in Archaeology, History and Culture: Festschrift to Prof.K.V. Raman. Vol. 2. Ed. P. Chenna Reddy. Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 2010. ISBN 8173200874; 9788173200878.
âSacred Ancestors, Sacred Homes.â Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril. Eds.Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P.Nelson. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2010, 137-140. (Includes contributions from The Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Pope John Paul II, Barack Obama among other distinguished world leaders)
2009 âIraamalinga Vilaasa Eyinar Ezhuttil Iyaypuc Citaivu.â Cithiramaadam: Tamizhakac Cuvarooviyangal Kuritta Katturaikal. Ed.Bhartiputhiran. Chennai: Maatru Veliyeetagam, 83-93. With Daniel, J.T.K. âIntroduction.â Value Education Today: Explorations in Social Ethics. Eds. J.T.K.Daniel
and Nirmal Selvamony. Chennai: New Century Book House, rpt., 2009, xii. âDe-development: A Case for Tradition.â Value Education Today: Explorations in Social Ethics. Eds. J.T.K.Daniel and Nirmal Selvamony. Chennai: New Century Book House, rpt., 2009, 86-97. âAn Alternative Social Order.â Value Education Today: Explorations in Social Ethics. Eds. J.T.K.Daniel and Nirmal Selvamony. Chennai: New Century Book House, rpt., 2009, 215-236.
2008 âWater in Contemporary Tamil Literatureâ. Words on Water. Eds. Maureen Devine and Christa Grewe- Volpp. Trier: Wissenschftlicher Verlag Trier, 89-101. âThe Two Paradises of the American Imagination.â Critical Perspectives on American Literature. Ed S.P.Dhanavel.
New Delhi: Sarup & Sons, 2008, 8-25. 2006 âTamil-English: Literary Relations: An Oikocritical Approachâ. Tamil and English: Mutual Influences.
Ed.V.Jayadevan. Chennai: Jayadevan.
âEndangering Ontology: A Critique of Humanistic Ecocriticismâ. Proceedings of the IV International Conference of Literatures in English on the The Endangered Planet in Literature. Nov.16-18, 2005. Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey. âMigrancy in Literature.â Migrant Voices in Literatures in English. Ed. Sheobushan Shukla, Anu Shukla. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons, 2006, 115-126.
2005 âMigrancy in Literatureâ. Contemporary World Literatures in English. Volume II. Migrant Voices in Literatures in
English. Eds. Sheobushan Shukla and Anu Shukla. New Delhi: Sarup and Sons (for World Association for Studies in Literatures in English). 115-126.
âFrom Environmental Aisthesis to Ecopoiesisâ. Environmental Aesthetics. Ed.S.Vanathu Antoni. Department
of Philosophy, Arul Anandar College, Karumathur, Madurai District, Tamil Nadu, 35-44. âPoetry as Ecopoetryâ. Some Perspectives in Indian Writing in English: Papers Presented at the UGC-sponsored
National Conference, 2nd & 3rd September, 2005. Ed. The Department of English, SNDB Vaishnav College for Women, Chennai 600 044. Chennai: The Department of English, SNDB Vaishnav College for Women, Chennai 600 044, 32-48.
2004 "The Ontology of the Work of Art: An Introduction to Tamil Poetics", Critical Theory: An Oriental Perspective. Ed.Naqi
Hussain Jafri. New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia, and Creative Books, 2004, 334-359.
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*âForeword.â Tamizarivoom. By Ku.Araceendiran. Cennai: Kaaviri Patippakam. 2001 âEcorights.â Current Issues in Bioethics and Environment. Eds. Gabriel, Joshua, Jayapaul Azariah. Chennai:
Department of Philosophy, Madras Christian College, 2001, 265-291. 2000 Preface. The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. By P.Rajani. Orient Longman, viii-xii.
â Post-coloniality and the Discourse of Development.â Post-coloniality: Reading Literature. Eds. C.T.Indira and Meenakshi Shivram. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing Pvt.Ltd. 59-70.
*âtonmam: oor iyankiyal aayvu.â (A Dialectical Study of Myth) putiya nuuRRaaNTum tamizc cuuzalum (The Twenty-
first Century and the Tamil Context). Chennai: Madras Christian College, 2000, 41-57. (in Tamil) Commentary. Lakshmi Kannanâs âIndia Gate.â Living And Feeling. Eds. P.Rajani, V.Rajagopalan and Nirmal Selvamony. Chennai: Department of English and Centre for Womenâs Studies. 120-130.
Commentary. Lakshmi Kannanâs âIslanders.â Living And Feeling. Eds. P.Rajani, V.Rajagopalan and Nirmal Selvamony. Chennai: Department of English and Centre for Womenâs Sturdies. 87-90.
With Aparna Srinivas. Commentary. âImtiaz Dharker.â Living And Feeling. Eds. P.Rajani, V.Rajagopalan and Nirmal Selvamony. Chennai: Department of English and Centre for Womenâs Studies. 255-266.
Commentary. Flannery OâConnorâs âEverything That Rises Must Converge.â Who Says My Hand A Needle Better Fits? Eds. P.Rajani, V.Rajagopalan and Nirmal Selvamony. Chennai: Department of English and Centre for Womenâs Studies. 120-129.
Commentary. Joyce Carol Oatesâs âWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?â Who Says My Hand A Needle Better Fits? Eds. P.Rajani, V.Rajagopalan and Nirmal Selvamony. Chennai : Department of English and Centre for Womenâs Studies. 152-158.
1999 *âtamilk kumukaayattil meelainaattavarin aan-pen uravu nilai parriya karuttukalin celvaakku.â (The influence of the
western ideas of man-woman relationship on Tamil Society) aan-pen uravu nilai: naataka valakkinum ulakiyal
valakkinum (Man-women relationship: In Art and in Life) Ed. Livingstone, David Prabhakar & George, Chennai: Bharati
Manram, Madras Christian College, 48-54. 1997 *'tolkaappiyak kalaiyiyal.' (Aesthetics in tolkaappiyam) tolkaappiya ilakkiyak kootpaatukal (Literary Principles of tolkaappiyam). Eds. S.Jean Lawrence, K.Bhagavathi. Chennai: International Institute of Tamil Studies, 284- 309.
*âetirkaalat tamilar panpu.â (The character of the future Tamils) tamilar etirkaalaviyal (The Future of the Tamils). Ed.
David Prabhakar.Chennai: Bharati Manram. 70-82. Commmentary. Shashi Deshpande's âMy Beloved Charioteer.â Other Eyes and Other Voices- II. Eds. P.Rajani,
Felix Moses and Manohar Samuel. Chennai: Department of English and Centre for Womenâs Studies. 90-97.
Commentary. S.Usha's 'To Mother.' Other Eyes and Other Voices â II. Eds. P.Rajani, Felix Moses and Manohar Samuel. Chennai: Department of English and Centre for Womenâs Studies. 123-127.
Commentary. Ajeet Courâs âMaami.â Other Eyes And Other Voices-I. Eds. P. Rajani, V.Rajagopalan and Nirmal
Selvamony
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Contributor to Metaphor and Translation (to be published) by Katha, New Delhi.
1993 *âtinaippeyar: An Inquiry into the relation between Anthroponymy and Toponymy.â Studies in Dravidian Place Names. Thiruvananthapuram: Place Name Society. 48-63.
âIntroduction.â Fables (The Stories of Kaasi Aanantan). By Kaasi Aanantan. Cennai: Kasi Anandan Kudil. 1990 âTowards An End of Education.â National Consultation on Indian Higher Education: Thrusts Into Future. Ed. Michael Lockwood. Tambaram: Madras Christian College. 37-43.
With Daniel, J.T.K. âIntroduction.â Value Education Today: Explorations in Social Ethics. Eds. J.T.K.Daniel and Nirmal Selvamony. Chennai: Madras Christian College and AIACHE, 1990, xii. âAn Alternative Social Order.â Value Education Today: Explorations in Social Ethics. Eds. J.T.K.Daniel, Nirmal Selvamony. Tambaram: Madras Christian College and AIACHE, 1990, 215-236. 'De-development: A Case for Tradition.â Value Education Today: Explorations in Social Ethics. Eds. J.T.K.Daniel, Nirmal Selvamony. Tambaram: Madras Christian College and AIACHE. 86-97.
1989 *'vinaayakan' (Ganapati), aayvukkoovai (of 21st Symposium), Annamalai Nagar: All - India University Tamil
Teachers' Association, 367 - 72. *'pramman' ,aayvukkoovai. (3rd Symposium) Tanjore: All India Tamil Literary Association, 184 - 88. âIntroductionâ. Fables (The Stories of Kaasi Aanantan). By Kaasi Aanantan. Cennai: Kasi Anandan Kudil.
1985 *âtolnerik katavuliyal.â (Theology in tolkaappiyam) tamil kirictava marapu (Tamil Christian Heritage). Ed. Gnana Robinson. Madurai: Tamil Theological Book Club, Tamilnadu Theological Seminary. 236-59. 1984 âModern Womanhood: A New Caste?.â A Vision for India Tomorrow. Eds..J.T.K.Daniel, R.Gopalan. Tambaram: Madras Christian College. 28-34. WEB PUBLICATIONS 2014 âThe Cries of Water.â Dividing Waters: The Valley in Distress. Lila Interactions: An Online Medium of Translocal Dialogues. www.lilainteractions.in/dividing-waters/
âA Tentative List of Birds of naakakkuTi campus of Central University of Tamil Nadu.â www. cutn.ac.in "Tamil Studies". Website on the late Prof. Gift Siromoney. "http://www.emi.ac.in/gift/Tamil Studies.htm"
http://www.emi.ac.in/gift/Tamil Studies.htm 2004 âTribute to a Musicologist.â (V.P.K.Sundaram). Journalism Online
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âDe-development: A Case for Tradition.â http://www.angelfire.com/nd/nirmaldasan/journalismonline/dacft.doc October 27, 2013.
JOURNAL ESSAYS MUSIC 2014 âpaNNaayvu aaRRuppaTai: tiNai icai nookkum tirumuRai icai.â (Guiding paN Research: tiNai music-oriented
Saivite Hymnal music). 71st Annual Report of pan Research. cennai: tamiz icaic cagkam, (Academy of Tamil Music), 2014.
1998-1999 âkuuttu (Dance / Drama) in tolkaappiyam.â The Samskrita Ranga Annual IX 1988-90 on Indian
Classical Theatre Tradition. Ed. S.S.Janaki. Madras: The Samskrita Ranga. 1998-99, 82-116. 1998 Rev.of Ilango Atikal's The Cilappatikaram. Trans. R.Parthasarathy. Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi's Bi-monthly
Journal) Jan-Feb 1998: 246 - 251. ISSN: 0019580-4 1998 *âtinai icai iyal: tamilicai marapum piranaattu icai marapukalum.â (tinai Musicology: the musical traditions of the
Tamils and the people of the other nations) 47th Annual Report of the pan (raga) Research Conference, Chennai: Tamil Icaic Cankam,, 73-83.
1995 With S.Shankar (Dept. of English, Rutger's State University, USA). Rev. of âR.Parthasarathy's The Tale of an Anklet:
A New Translation. (R.Parthasarathy's The Tale of an Anklet: A New Translation Brings Back an Old World') South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection. 5 (Summer, 1995): 43-44.
1995 'tolkaappiya icai marapum pira naattu icai marapum.' (Music traditions of tolkaappiyam and other nations)
46th Annual Report of the pan (raga) Research Conference. Chennai: Tamil Icaic Cankam,1995, 99-112. 1993 'tolkaappiyat tamil icai iyal.' (Tamil Musicology in tolkaappiyam) Annual Report of the pan (Raga) Research Conference. Chennai: Tamil Icaic Cankam, 1993, 77-96. OTHER 2016 âSpeaking the Truth about the Liberalist Public Intellectual to Power.â Humanities Circle 4. 1 (2016) (Abstract
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âFrom the Anthropocene to the Neo-tiNaicene.â Humanities Circle 3. 2 (July-December 2015): 115- 130. ISSN 2321-8010
âTeriiTaa kaaNaata maiyam.â (The Centre Derrida Did Not See). putuppunal (Annual Issue) 8. 1 (January 2016): 19-25. ISSN 2278-1641
2015 âFrom the Anthropocene to the Neo-tiNaicene.â Humanities Circle 3. 2 (Winter 2015): 115-130.
ISSN 2321-8010 âkaLam and Free Space in Nongkynrihâs The Yearning of Seeds.â Kavyabharati 27 (2015): 199-221.
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3D IBA Journal of Management and Leadership 5. 2 (January âJune 2014): 136-149. ISSN 2230-7524 2014 âConsidering the Humanities Ecotheoretically.â Journal of Contemporary Thought 40 (Winter 2014): 5-20. âA New Approach to Indian Art: The Pan Indian Scrubland tiNai Paradigm.â Journal of Tamil Studies 85
(June 2014): 47-53. ISSN 0022-4855
2013 âServing Flesh and Fish Blood as Neopostcolonial Poetics.â A Review Essay on S. Shankarâs Flesh and Fish Blood: Postcolonialism, Translation and the Vernacular. U of California P, 2012; Orient Blackswan Private Limited, 2013. ISBN 978 81 250 49883. In Journal of Contemporary Thought 37 (2013): 95-112. ISSN 0971-4731 âLyre, Violin and Harp: Reading Seth, Ezekiel and Derozio Against the tiNai Grain.â Eclectic Representations 3: 1 (July 2013): 19-76. ISSN 2231-430X
2012 âInterrelatedness: tiNai, Ecocriticism and Envirocriticism.â Gandhigram Literary Review 1.1 (Summer 2012): 61-80. ISSN: 2278-8170 âRevisiting Greenness: A tiNaiological Approach.â Eclectic Representations 2 (March 2012): 172-197. ISSN: 2231-430X 2010 âThe tiNai Way.â Jeevadhara. XL.235 (2010): 37-46. ISSN 0970-1125 2009 Deborah, Susan and Nirmal Selvamony. âHome in cagkam Love Poetry.â Indian Journal of Ecocriticism
I.2 (2009):100-107. ISSN 0974-2840 with Susan Deborah. âDisplacement of Niche in Su. Samuthiramâs The Third Gender. Scott Light: Journal of
English Studies 2 (October 2009): 57-68. ISSN 0975-0819 Alex, Rayson K. and Nirmal Selvamony. âNiche in Select Short Stories of Jhumpa Lahari.â Indian Journal of
Ecocriticism I.2 (2009):108-115. âIntroductory Remarks on Oikosemiotics.â Literary Explorer 8.2 (December 2009): 1-12. ISSN: 0973-0524 2008 âtiNai in Primal and Stratified Societies.â Indian Journal of Ecocriticism I.1 (2008): 38-48. 2006 âPower, Agency and the Oikos.â Tamkang Review. Vol.XXXVII No.1 (Autumn 2006): 199-212. ISSN 0049-2949 2005 âHuman Identity in Some Contemporary Asian Poemsâ, Akshara: Annual Research Journal of Critical and Creative Writing in English. Vol.1.1 (March 2005): 1-18. 2002 âEcoaesthetics: A Noteâ. PILC Journal of Dravidic Studies Vol. 12:1, 12: 2 (January & July, 2002): 215-224. ISSN 0971-0957 2001 âtalaiâ (ancient Tamil grass skirt), kolam. 8 (July 2001). http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/journal/kolam/vols/kolam www.fas.nus.edu.sg/journal/kolam/vols/kolam 8/IA-old Lit/Talai-An%20ancient%20Tamil%20Grass skirt.html 2000 "The Syllogistic Circle in Tolkaappiyam". Journal of Tamil Studies. 57&58 (June &Dec.2000): 117-134.
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1999 With Lakshmanan Sabaratnam. âAwareness Gendered.â English: A Research Journal VII (1999): 5-11.
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âThe Feminity of the Poem: An Introduction to kalam Poetics.â English: A Research Journal VII (1999): 35 -42.
1998-99 *'ariviyalaa? Ilakkanamaa? ' (What is the apt Tamil term for science?) aayvukkoovai (of 22nd Symposium) of All India
University Tamil Teachers' Association. Pondicherry: Pondicherry University. 530 -35. 1997 Selvamony, Nirmal and A.Rukmani, "Land Health: The Bioethical Approach of the Foragers", Bioethics in India:
Proceedings of the International Bioethics Workshop in Madras, 16-19 Jan.1997, University of Madras, Eds. Jayapaul Azariah, Hilda Azariah, and Darry R.J.Macer, Christchurch, N.A.: Eubios Ethics Institute, 275-279. http://www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/index.html
With E.P.S.Thyagaraju and Shanthakumari Rajan. âThe Changing ELT Scene in India: Teacher Development Groups.â
Focus on English 5:1 (1989): 11-20. 1996 âElements of Axiology in tolkaappiyam.â Journal of Tamil Studies 49&50 (1996): 171-187. ISSN 0022-4855 1994 âWomanhood in Early Tamil tinai society.â English: A Research Journal, Department of English & Centre for Women's Studies, Madras Christian College (1993 â 1994): 67-77.
*âtiNait tolilnuTpamâ (Technology of the Ancient Tamil Societies known as tinai) Valar Tamil Ariviyal (papers of the 3rd symposium): engineering - technology). Eds. Dr.Rama Sundaram, Dr.A.Ilankovan. Tanjavoor: All India Association for Scientific Tamil. 80-87.
âEducation through the Environment.â Peace Education II.3. 41-44.
1993 *âtalaiyutai.â aayvukkovai All India University Tamil Teachersâ Association. Pondicherry: Pondicherry University. 506-510. *âpotiyil.' (Ancient Tamil Structural Edifice) ayvukkoovai (of 23rd symposium) Vol.2 of All India University Tamil
Teachers' Association. Pondicherry : Pondicherry University. 44-48.
1989 'alavai (Criterion of valid knowledge) in tolkaappiyam', Journal of the Department of Philosophy. Madras Christian
College, Tambaram, March, 14-15. âmanram.â Tamil Civilization. 7. 2-4 (1989): 39-57. 'ca-Initial Words in Tamil', Journal of Asian Studies, Sept., 1989, Vol. VII, No.1, 137-148. * 'vinaayakan' (Ganapati), aayvukkoovai (of 21st Symposium), Annamalai Nagar: All - India University Tamil Teachers'
Association, 367 - 72.
1988 âtinaippeyar (The People of tinai regions): An Inquiry into the relation between anthroponymy and toponymy.â PLANS Bulletin. Thiruvananthapuram: Place Name Society (PLANS). 31-32. 1987-88 How Moral Can A Play Be?' English: A Research Journal. Department of English, Madras Christian College, Tambaram (1987-88): 24-29. 1986 'The Study of Literature.' The English: A Research Journal (Department of English, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, 1986-87) : 59-60.
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1985 * 'ceyyul. ' (Art) Journal of Asian Studies 2 : 193 - 202. 1979 'An Overview of Dialogue in Madras Christian College.' Religion and Society. (Christian Institute for the Study of
Religion and Society, Bangalore, 1979) : 88-90.
FULL PAPER IN PROCEEDINGS 2005 âEndangering Ontology: A Critique of Humanistic Ecocriticism,âThe Endangered Planet in Literature:
Selected Proceedings. Ed. Barry Tharaud, Elizabeth Pallitto. International Conference, Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey, 16-18 November, 2005, 107-121. âPower, Agency and the Oikos.â The Third Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse. Tamshui, Taipei County, Taiwan, R.O.C.: Tamkang University, 27-28 May, 2005, 106-120.
2004 âEcocriticism at Tambaramâ. III World Conference and XI All India English Teachersâ Annual Conference on
âContemporary Literatures in English: Theory and Practice with focus on Environment and Literary Studies.â 20-21 December 2004, Madras Christian College, Chennai, 40-41.
âEnvironment and Literatureâ. III World Conference and XI All India English Teachersâ Annual Conference on âContemporary Literatures in English: Theory and Practice with focus on Environment and Literary Studies.â 20-21 December 2004, Madras Christian College, Chennai, 41-46.
1997 With A.Rukmani, "Land Health: The Bioethical Approach of the Foragers", Bioethics in India: Proceedings of the International Bioethics Workshop in Madras, 16-19 Jan.1997, University of Madras, Eds. Jayapaul Azariah, Hilda Azariah, and Darry R.J.Macer, Christchurch, N.A.:Eubios Ethics Institute, 275-279. BOOK REVIEW IN FOREIGN JOURNAL 1995 With S.Shankar (Dept. of English, Rutger's State University, USA). Rev. of âR.Parthasarathy's The Tale of an Anklet:
A New Translation. R.Parthasarathy's The Tale of an Anklet: A New Translation Brings Back an Old World.' South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection. 5 (Summer, 1995): 43-44.
UNPUBLISHED REVIEW 2016 Peer Reviewed a forthcoming volume on Ecocriticism: Sarah Nolanâs Unnatural Ecopoetics. To be published by University of Nevada Press. BOOK REVIEW IN INDIAN JOURNALS 2009 âPortable Homeland: Robin Ngangomâs Takes on the Dying Tinai Tradition of the Indian North East.â Rev. of
Robin Ngangomâs The Desire of Roots. Cuttack: Chandrabhaga, 2006. for Kavyabharati 2007 âOcular Noise: Poetising the Semele-Zeus Syndrome.â Rev. of Sampurna Chatterjeeâs volume of poems, Sight May
Strike You Blind. Kavya Bharati 19 (2007): 179-190.
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2006 Rev. of R.Narasimhanâs Characterizing Literacy: A Study of Western and Indian Literacy Experiences. Review of Development and Change XI.1 (January-June 2006): 85-95.
ABSTRACTS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 2014 âThe Ontic Quandary of Theory.â Two-day International Silver Jubilee Seminar on âTheorizing Today: 25 Years Later.â Jointly organized by the Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda, and the Department of Political Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, 10-11 February, 2014. 2013 âRegion in The Guide.â XVI International Conference on âTranslation, Comparatism, and the Global South.â
Organized jointly by The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda and the Department of Studies in English, University of Mysore, at the Hotel Regaalis, 15-18 December, 2013.
2013 âAn Ecolinguistic Window on Globalization.â International Conference on Globalization and the Teaching of English, Department of English, Jain Vishva Bharati Institute, Ladnun, Rajasthan, 19-20 October, 2013. 2013 âRegion and Regionization.â Abstracts of the Two-day National Seminar on âTheorizing the Region.â Department of English, Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga University Campus, 27-28 March, 2013. 2012 âCan The Hungry Tide Be Human Home?â Abstracts of the National Conference on âTowards Ecological Perspectives
on Water.â Department of English, Central University of Tamil Nadu, 26-27 October, 2012. 2007 âRevisiting Greenness: An Oikological Approach.â Abstracts of the Second International Conference of OSLE-India, AIMS, Bangalore, 8, 9 June, 2007, 17. 2005 âPower, Agency and the Oikosâ. The Third Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse. 27-28 May 2005, Tamkang University, Tamshui, Taipei County, Taiwan, Republic of China, 106-120.
âEcotechnology: A Reading of Susan Swanâs The Man Doll and Marlene Nourbese Philipâs Burn Sugar.â XXI IACS International Conference on Canadian Studies on âSociety, Environment and Technology: Canada and Indiaâ. 24-26 February 2005, Canadian Studies Centre, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 83.
2004 âLiterary Migrancy in the Light of tinai poeticsâ. II World Conference and X All India English Teachersâ Conference on âThe Migrant Voices in Literatures in Englishâ. 30-31 January 2004, Dhanwate National College, Congress Nagar, Nagpur, 49-50.
âtinai, an Early Ecocritical Theoryâ. III World Conference and XI All India English Teachersâ Annual Conference on âContemporary Literatures in English: Theory and Practice with focus on Environment and Literary Studies.â 20-21 December 2004, Madras Christian College, Chennai, 17.
1999 "Holistic Land Ethics". Abstracts. Regional Seminar on Land Alienation Among Rural And Tribal Societies, 13-14 March 1999, sponsored by UGC. Dept.of Anthropology, Univesity of Madras, Chennai. 1997 "Development Poetics and Contemporary Tamil Poetry". Abstracts of Silver Jubilee Symposium. International Institute of Tamil Studies, Chennai. WRITINGS IN MAGAZINES
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MUSIC 2003 "Irupataam Nuurraantu Icaittamil Dr.V.P.K.Suntaram", Nilal 7 (May 2003): 9. 1995 'naattiyat tamil allatu aatarramil.â (theatre/dance tradition in Tamil) Souvenir of the 12th year Ceremony, Association Tamilar Oli, Montreal, Canada, 1995. 1989 'cakoota yaal.' (An ancient Tamil stringed musical instrument) taru 3 (1989): 14-19. OTHER 2011 âMr.S.A.Thomas: The Motto of My School.â Headmaster of Margoschis High School, Nazareth:
S.A.Thomas: A Commemorative Volume, 2011, n.p. 2010 âcelvamaNiâ teecoopakaari 2007 âInterview with Nirmal Selvamony.â tiiraanati 6.7 (December 2007): 32-40. 2000 *An Interview with Prof. Nirmal Selvamony on the theory of tiNai. ootam 1.1 (2000) : 8-13. (a privately circulated journal from Chennai) *âtolkaappiyat tinaai nutpankal.â (The Implications of the tinai concept in tolkaappiyam) Retell. Tiruchirappalli:
St.Joesphâs College. 27-28. 1998 *âtinaippaaviyal.â (ecopoetics) taru 3.2 (1998): 13-14. 1997 âLiterature Studies in India in 2000, A.D.â Semester Harvest I. 1 (1997, Madras Christian College School of Continuing
Education, Chennai): 31-32. âNew Flowers on an Old Tree: Colonial Development and Contemporary Tamil Poetry.â Souvenir of the First
World Christian Tamil Conference. New York, Hofstra University, 15-18 August. 1994 âThe Future of Tamil Indigenes.â Our Voice. Chennai: Department of Social Work, Madras Christian College. 9-11.
âEnvironment: Our Responsibility.â Our Voice. Chennai: Dept. of Social Work, Madras Christian College. 16-19. 1993 *'kaatci iyal.' (Philosophy) centamilc celvi (March): 258-63.
*'kaatci iyal.' (Philosophy). centamilc celvi (April) : 298-302.
1991 *'vinaayakan.' centamilc celvi. (Feb. 1991): 227 - 237. 1990 * 'ampalam.' (Ancient stone shelter) taru. 4, 27-32.
1989 *'pramman.' aayvukkoovai. (3rd Symposium) Tanjore: All India Tamil Literary Association, 184 - 88.
"Back to tinai" . Seventh International Tamil Conference Souvenir. 1989 Mauritius. Chennai: World Tamil Poetsâ Association, 1989, 129-30.
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1988 *ancirait tumpi.â (Butterfly) taru, 2 24-26. 1985 * 'icaiyiyal: vaayil neertal.' (Musicology: Introduction) Madras Christian College Magazine LIV (1985) : 82-85. 1983 * 'tamilar kanta katavuliyal.' (The Theology of the Tamils) iraiyiyal malar 14 (Tamilnadu Theological Seminary,
Madurai): 48-48. 1981 * 'tamil netunkanakku.' (Tamil Alphabet) centamilc celvi 55: 331.
* "matamaarrattin mutal murkol.' (The primary presupposition in religious conversion) iraiyiyal malar 9 (Tamilnadu
Theological Seminary, Madurai): 45-48. 1979 'Lady Godivia: The Robe Myth.' Annual of United Theological College, Bangalore. 22-23. ESSAYS IN MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE MUSIC, THEATRE 2002-3 *"tamizharallaarin tamizhicaip paNi (The contribution of non-Tamils to Tamil Music). Madras Christian College
Magazine. Vol.LXIX (2002-2003):110-119. 2001 *"mupparat cilampu" (Anklet with three gems). Madras Christian College Magazine LXVII (2000-2001):
129-131. 2000 *âmeyyaattiyal.â (includes an English translation of meyppaattiyal of tolkaappiyam) Madras Christian College Magazine LXVII (2000): 100-107.
1999 *âpakavatiyaa pacca?â Madras Christian College Magazine LXV (1999) : 53-54. 1994-1995 âtamilk kuuttiyal.â Madras Christian College Magazine LX (1994-1995): 68-71. 1990 *'ampalam' Madras Christian College Magazine LVI (1990): 103-7. OTHER 2004 âEcoregional Education,â Madras Christian College Magazine. Vol.LXX (2003-2004):60-66. 2003-4 *âteriitaa kaaNaata maiyamâ (The Centre Derrida did not see). Madras Christian College Magazine.
Vol.LXX (2003-2004): 94-106. 2001-2002 âEcosculpture.â Madras Christian College Magazine LXVII (2001-2002) :30-35. 2001 âFree Verse.â Madras Christian College Magazine LXVII (2000-2001): 62-69. 1999 âDecolonising The Literary Mind: Literature Curriculum for the free and the brave.â Madras Christian College Magazine LXV (1999): 36-41.
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1996 'A Few moments with Takazhi', Madras Christian College Magazine LXIII (1996-97) : 246-251.
1995 *'tamil icaipputaiya moliyaa?'â (Is Tamil a Tone Language?) Madras Christian College Magazine, 1995-1996, 96-99.
'Value Education.â Madras Christian College Magazine LVI (1990-1991) : 15-19. 1994 'Education Through the Environment.' Madras Christian College Magazine LV (1988-1989): 46-49. 1991 *'meypporuliyalaa? kaatciyiyalaa?' (What is the apt Tamil term for philosophy?) Madras Christian College
Magazine LVII (1990-1991): 57-64.
1989 âFrom Stateliness To Clownishness: The 'Changing' Role of English Education in India.â Madras Christian College Magazine. 25-31.
1985 *'icaiyiyal: vaayil neertal.' (Musicology: Introduction) Madras Christian College Magazine LIV (1985) :
82-85.
1984 *'ceyyul aarruppatai.' (Guide to Art) Madras Christian College Magazine LII and LIII (1983-84) : 109 â 113.
CONFERENCE PAPERS PAPERS IN CONFERENCES/SEMINARS ABROAD MUSIC 2016 Paper on Performance in Indian Tradition. International Research Center, âInterweaving Performance Cultures,â
Berlin, W.Germany, 11-16 October. 2015 âMusic in âTo a Skylark,â âkuyil paaTTuâ and âaantaip paaTTu.â âRereading Romanticism: Imagination,
Emotion, Nature and Things.â Biennial Conference of the Romantic Studies Association of Australia, University of Melbourne, Australia, 23-25 July, 2015. (paper accepted but could not present in the conference)
2005 âTamil Music Today.â Institut for Musik und Musikwissenschaft, Universitat Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, 22 November, 2005.
1995 âKalam: The Sacred Space.â Fourth Annual British Common wealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference,
Georgia Southern University, Georgia, USA, 13-15 April, 1995.
âKalam: ritual.â Faculty Seminar, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, USA, 10 May. OTHER 2015 âPossession and Community.â Paper in a Panel on Spirit Possession. Annual Meeting of the American Academy
of Religion, 21-24 November 2015, Atlanta, USA. (was accepted as panelist but could not attendance conference)
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2014 âEcocriticism, Envirocriticism and tiNai Criticism.â Seminar Series. School of English. University of Hong Kong. 23 October 2014. 2011 âPossession As Address.â Panel on âAltered States: Spirit Possession, Modernity and Other Dangerous Crossings in India.â 31 March-4 April 2011, Association for Asian Studies, Convention Center, Honolulu, 3 April. (Moderator: Prof. Wendy Doniger) 2010 âTinai as Tree: Revisiting Tree Worship in Tamil Tinai Societies.â International Conference on Ecology and Life Writing.
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 24-27 June.
2009 âIl: The Oikological Human.â âEcological Literature and Environmental Education.â Beijing University, Beijing, PRC, 14-21 August, 2009. âBeyond Envirocriticism and Ecocriticism: The Concept of tinai and the critique of modernity.â 26th Annual Spring Symposium of the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA, 9 April.
âWomen in tinai and state societies.â Women and Religion, Department of Religion, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA, 10 April. âThe Dying Tinai Tradition in the Poetry of the Indian North East.â Department of English, Queenâs University,
Belfast, Northern Ireland, 10 May. 2006 âWater in Contemporary Tamil Literature: An Oikocritical Approachâ. 2nd Biennial Conference of European
Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment, on âWater: Literary, Cultural and Environmental Perspectivesâ. Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt, Austria, 28 April-1 May, 2006.
âEcocriticism and Oikos: Early Tamil Literature.â Graduate Seminar in âNature in Narrativeâ at Institut fur Anglistik
und Amerikanistik, Universitat Klagenfurt, Austria, 2 May, 2006. 2005 âA Heaven of Blue Glass and the Jasmine Bower: American and Tamil Paradises.â John F.Kennedy Institut
fur Nordamerikastudien, Abteilung fur Literatur, Berlin, Germany, 24 November. âLiterature, Nature, India: From Tinai to Oikocriticism.â Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik,
Universitat Dortmund, Germany, 22 November. âEndangering Ontology: A Critique of Humanistic Ecocriticism.â IV International Conference of Literatures
in English, organized by The World Association for Studies in Literatures in English, and The Department of English Language and Literature, Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey, 16-18 November, 2005.
âPower, Agency and the Oikos.â The Third Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse,
Tamkang University, Tamshui, Taipei County, Taiwan, Republic of China, 27-28 May, 2005. 1995 âEcological Poetry: Nature in the Ancient Poetry of the Tamilsâ Dept. of English, Rutger's State University, NJ,
USA, 18 April. ' âColonial Development and Contemporary Tamil Poetry.â Fourth Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial
Studies Conference, Georgia Southern University, Georgia, USA, 13-15 April.
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1994 âThe Feminine Frame of Honour: Through Female Narration in Early Tamil Poetry.â International Conference of the Association de Literature Feminina Hispanica, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, USA, 20 October.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION ABROAD 1995 ASIA Network Conference, St.Petersburg Beach, Florida, USA, 21-23 April, 1995. PAPERS IN FILM FESTIVAL IN INDIA 2014 âEcocriticism and Indian Ecocriticism.â Tinai EcoFilm Festival 2014, BITS-Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, 31 January, 1 February, 2014. 2014 âDevelopment from a tiNai Perspective.â Tinai EcoFilm Festival 2014, BITS-Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, 31 January, 1 February, 2014 PAPERS IN CONFERENCES IN INDIA MUSIC, DRAMA 2016 âtiNai Rights.â Plenary paper in the National Seminar on âRedefining Gender and Environmental Ethics:
A Discoure on Green Literature.â Annamalai University, 4 March, 2016. 2015 âReconstruction of Tamil Musicology: The Contribution of V.P.K.Sundaram.â International Conference on
âReconstructing Classical Tamil Traditions: A Global Quest.â Organized by the Department of Tamil, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu, 25-27 March 2015. (International/I)
âThe Seeds of Drama in tolkaappiyam.â National Seminar on âContemporary Indian Drama,â Sahitya Akademi, Bangalore, 18-21 January 2015. (National/N)
2014 âtolkaappiyat tamiz icaiyiyal: putityatoor aNukumuRai.â (A New Approach to the Musicology of
tolkaappiyam).Three-day Conference on âcevviyal ilakkiya ilakkaNagkaLil icai nuNukkagkaL.â (Musicological Nuances in Classical Literature and Grammar). Jointly organized by Tamil Music College at tamiz icaic cagkam and Central Institute for Classical Tamil, cennai, at Raja Annamalai Hall, cennai, 4-6 March, 2014. (Invited Paper) (N)
2008 âTinai Musicology.â Workshop-cum-Training Programme on the concept of Tinai in Sangam Literature.
Conducted by the Centre for Excellence for Classical Tamil, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. 10 January, 2008 (Invited Paper) (N)
2007 âIs Musical Sound Meaningful?â National Seminar on the Legacy of Saussure and Contemporary Indian Experience, organised by CIIL, Mysore, at ASSM College, Mukandpur, Punjab, 9-11 February, 2007 (Invited Paper) (N)
2006 âMusicology in Tolkaappiyam: An Oikomusicological Approachâ. âTolkaappiyattil Icaikkurippukalâ (References to
Music in Tolkaappiyam), Musicological Conference organised jointly by the Music Department of Tamil University,
Tanjavur, and Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, at Tamil University, Tanjavur, 27, 28 July, 2006. (N) 2003 "American Jazz and Popular Culture", UGC Refresher Course for Teachers of English, Dept. of English,
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University of Madras, 7 August, 2003 (Invited Paper) (N)
'Tamil Christian Hymn: A Translational Cloned Mantis', UGC National Seminar on Translation, International Institute of
Tamil Studies, Chennai. 24-26 Feb., 2003 (Invited Paper) (N) 2001 'Tinai Icai Iyal: Tamil Icai Marapum Pira Nattu Icai Marapum' (Tinai Musicology): Musicological traditions in Tamil and of other nations), 47th annual Pan (raga) Research Conference, Chennai, 23 December, 2001 (Invited Paper) (Regional/R) 1996 âTinai Icai Iyal: Tamil Icai Marapum Pira Nattu Icai Marapumâ (Tinai Musicology): Musicological traditions
in Tamil and of other nations), 47th annual Pan (raga) Research Conference, Chennai, 23 December, 1996 (Invited Paper) (R)
1995 Tolkaappiya icai marapum pira naattu icai marapum' (The music traditions of South India and other nations), 46th
paN (raga) research conference, Tamil Icaic Cankam, Madras, 25 December, 1995 (Invited Paper) (R)
1993 * 'Tolkappiyamum cantaviyalum' (Tolkaappiyam and Cantam prosody), 44th Pan (raga) Research Conference, Tamil icaic cankam, cennai, 23 December, 1993 (Invited Paper) (R)
1992 'Tinai Icai Iyal: Tamil Icai Marapum Pira Nattu Icai Marapum' (Tinai Musicology): Musicological traditions
in Tamil and of other nations), 47th annual Pan (raga) Research Conference, Chennai, 23 December, 1992 (Invited Paper) (R) 1991 'Tolkappiyat tamiz icaiyiyal.â (Tamil Musicology in Tolkaappiyam), 42nd Pan (raga) Research Conference, Tamil icaic cankam, cennai, 24 December, 1991 (Invited Paper) (R) 1990 âKaLam: An Ancient Tamil Acting Areaâ 10th session of the South Indian History Congress, at Rajuâs College, Rajapalayam, 10-12 January, 1990. (N)
'Manram' (Ancient Tamil Village Square), All India Conference on Folklore, Telugu University, Hyderabad, 22-24 Nov.,
1990. (N) 'Kalam in Paantiyan Peruvaluti Sacrificial Coins', XVI Annual Epigraphical Society of India Congress, Mysore, 16-18
February, 1990. (N)
1989 âKalam (Ancient Tamil Acting Area): An Ancient Tamil Acting Areaâ, X Session of the South Indian History Congress,
Raju's College, Rajapalayam, Tamilnadu, 10-12 Jan., 1989. (N) *'Tolkaappiyattil Kuttu' (Drama in Tolkaappiyam), Seminar on Tol Tamilakam (Ancient Tamilnadu), St.Thomas's Hall,
Madras Christian College, Tambaram. (N)
1987 âKalam as Heterotopiaâ. National Conference on âFolklore as Discourse.â National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai, 1987 (Invited Paper) (N)
1981 'A Method for Musicology', Sri Sathguru Sangeetha Samajam, Madurai. (R) OTHER
2015 âtiNai As Tree and Tree as tiNai.â tiNai Eco Film Festival organized by BITS-Goa, at Rajiv Gandhi National
Institute for Youth Development, Chennai, 6-7 February, 2015. (I)
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âThe Way of our Primal Home.â Workshop on Culture, Sustainability and Creativity: Rethinking Business Today.â Indus Business Academy, Bangalore, 10 April 2015.
2014 âConsidering the Humanities Ecotheoretically: The Case of Theory.â Plenary Paper in the Silver Jubilee Conference
on âRe-imagining Theory: New Horizons for the Humanities and the Social Sciencesâ of the Forum on Contemporary Theory, Goa, 20-24 December 2014. (Invited Paper) (I)
âPerspectives on Ecocriticism.â Seminar, Department of English, Bharatiyar University, Coimbatore, 12 Sept. 2015. (Reg)
âVarieties of Ecocriticism.â Seminar in the department of English, Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore, 12 Sept. 2015. (Reg) âTheory Gazes At tiNai: New Directions in Tamil Poetry and Poetics.â Paper presented at the National Seminar on Literary Criticism Today: Texts, Trends and Issues.â Organized by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 13-15 March 2014. (Invited Paper) (N)
âThe Ontic Quandary of Theory.â Silver Jubilee Seminar of Forum on Contemporary Theory on âTheorizing Today.â at M.S. University of Baroda, 10, 11 February, 2014. (N) 2013. âRegion in the Guide.â Plenary Paper in the XVI International Conference on âTranslation, Comparatism and the
Global South.â Jointly organized by the Forum on Contemporary Theory and the Department of Studies in English, University of Mysore, Mysore, 15-18 December, 2013. (Invited Paper; I)
2013 âAn Ecolinguistic Window on Globalization.â International Conference on âGlobalization and the Teaching of English.â Department of English, Jain Vishva Bharati Instititue, Ladnum, Rajasthan, 19-20 October, 2013. (Invited Paper) (I) 2013. âEcoliterature and the Region.â Two-day national seminar on âTheorizing the Region.â Department of English,
Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga University Campus, 27-28 March, 2013. (Invited Paper) (N) 2013 âThe Possibility of Ecocriticisms.â UGC-sponsored National Seminar on âGreen Words for a Green World:
Ecoconsciousness in Literature.â PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, in collaboration with tiNai. 12 February 2013. (Keynote Address as President of tiNai) (N)
2012 âHoming as Ecocriticism and Spiritual Praxis.â International Workshop on âSpiritual Pragmatics.â Conducted by Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, at the Indus Business Academy, Kanakapura, Bangalore, 13 February. (Invited Paper) (I)
Keynote Address. UGC-sponsored National Conference on âEcocriticism: Developing Environmental Consciousness through English Studies.â Anand Niketan College, Anandwan-Warora, Chandrapur District, Maharashtra, India, 2 February. (Invited Paper) (N) 2011 âEcocritical Reading of Indian River Texts.â Keynote Address in the UGC-sponsored National Seminar on âGreen Perceptions: Ecology and Texts.â St.Paulâs College, Kalamassery, Kerala, India, 15-16 September. (Invited Paper) (N) Keynote Address. National Conference on âTowards Indian Ecocriticism.â Central University of Tamil Nadu, India, 2-3 December. (N)
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2010 âThe Name and Nature of Ecocriticism.â International Conference on âThe Name and Nature of Ecocriticism.â Central Universityof Tamil Nadu, India, 6-7 December. (I) 2009 âTamil Ecology.â National Conference on âNatural Resources: A Multi-Religious Approach.â Asian Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, 14-16 October, 2009, Panayur, Chennai 600 119. (Invited Paper) (N) âHome: The Tryst of the Ecocritical and the Postcolonial.â IV International Conference of OSLE-India. National
College, Tiruchi, 25-26 September, 2009. (I) 2008 âDevelopment Aesthetics.â Workshop on âNew Horizons of Human Development, Art, Spirituality and Social
Transformations. â Madras Institute of Development Studies. 28-29 March. (Invited Paper) (I) âHome, Identity and Universality: Dialogic Explorations.â Workshop on âIdentity and Universality.â Madras
Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, 28 July, 2008. (Invited Paper) (I) Response to the Lecture on âThe Religious Roots of Communal Violenceâ by Rev.Dr.Gnana Robinson, at the Faculty
Seminar, Madras Christian College, Chennai, 23 October, 2008. (Reg)
âAn Introduction to Ecocriticism.â UGC-sponsored National Seminar on Literary Theories. Lady Doak College, Madurai. 7-8 February. (Invited Paper) (N)
âLand in Ecocriticism.â Changing Landscapes: Towards a New Eco-culture.â Two-day Interdisciplinary National Seminar on Literature and Environment. Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, Kerala. 1-2 February. (Invited Paper; N) âFrom Landscape to Land: A Case for Tinai.â Changing Landscapes: Towards a New Eco-culture.â Two-day Interdisciplinary National Seminar on Literature and Environment. Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, Kerala. 1-2 February. (Invited Paper) (N)
âTinai Social Order.â Plenary Session of the International Seminar on Sangam Literature. Emeneau House, Dravidian University, Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh. 23 January. (Invited Paper) (I)
âLand, Culture and Knowledge Systems.â Keynote Address. III International Conference of OSLE-India,
St.Annâs College, Hyderabad, 4-5 January. (I) âCulture is a matter of Land Use.â Panel, III International Conference of OSLE-India, St.Annâs College,
Hyderabad, 4-5 January. (I) âWater in Tamil Literature: An Oikocritical Approach.â UGC-sponsored National Seminar on âNature in Literature.â Research Department of English, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli, 12 December. (Invited Paper) (N)
âEcocriticism and Tinai Ecocritical Theory.â UGC-sponsored Refresher Course on âEnvironmental Sciences.â Academic Staff College, Goa University, Goa. 23 November. (Invited Paper) (N)
âOikocriticism.â UGC-sponsored Refresher Course on Environmental Sciences. Academic Staff College, Goa University, Goa. 23 November. (N) âTowards a Tinai Society.â Conference on Tinai. Madras Christian College, Chennai, 2 November. (Reg)
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2007 âLand, Culture and Knowledge Systems,â Workshop on Ecocriticismâ St.Annâs College, Hyderabad, 7 September. (Reg) âOikological Approach to Ecoaesthetics.â Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Chennai, 28 August. (Invited Paper) (Reg) âIntroduction to Ecocriticism,â Department of English, Vaishnav College for Women, Chromepet, Chennai, 9 August. (Invited Paper) (Reg) âRevisiting Greenness: An Oikological Approach.â Second International Conference of OSLE-India on âTowards a
Greener Era: Interdisciplinary Approachesâ, AIMS, Bangalore, 8, 9 June. (I) (Organizer) âGender and Development in Three Literary Texts: An Oikic Reading.â International Workshop on Gender and
Development in Asian Literature, SCILET, American College, Madurai, 16-20, May. (Invited Paper) (I) âEcocentrism.â State Level Seminar on âEcocentrism: A New Vision,â St.Johnâs College, Palayamcottai, 17 February. (Invited Paper) (Reg) (Co-organizer) âEcoliterature.â Workshop on Ecoliterature, Meenakshi College for Women, Chennai, 2 February. (Reg)
âTowards a Definition of Literature.â UGC-SAP-DRS sponsored Workshop on the âFormation of Literary Theoriesâ, Department of Tamilology, Pondicherry University, 28-30 January. (Invited Paper) (N)
2006 âAlternatives to Modern Science.â Faculty Development Programme, Acharya Instittute of Management
and Sciences, Bangalore, 11 November. (Reg) (Co-organizer)
? âOikotechnologyâ, XXI IACS International Conference on âSociety, Environment and Technology: Canada and Indiaâ, Canadian Studies Centre, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 24-26 February. (I)
âTamil-English Literary Relations: An Oikocritical Approach.â Seminar on Tamil and English: Mutual
Influences.â Department of Tamil Language, University of Madras and The Madras English Association. Marina
Campus, University of Madras.12 December. (Invited Paper) (N) 2005 Keynote Address on âEcocriticismâ, National Conference on âCurrent Theories and their Impact on Teaching of
Literatureâ, St.Josephâs College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, 9-10, February. (N)
âIntroduction to Ecocriticismâ. UGC-sponsored State Level Seminar on âRecent Approaches to Modern English Literary Criticism and Their Impact on Reading and Teaching Practicesâ. PG & Research Department of
English, Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchirappalli, 15 September. (Invited Paper) (Reg) âOikolinguistics,â National Seminar on the Pillars of Vision India: Panini, Bharthrihari and Tolkaappiyar,
University of Madras, Chennai, 31 March-3 April. (Invited Paper) (N) âFrom Environmental Aisthesis to Ecopoesisâ, National Symposium on Environmental Aesthetics, Department of
Philosophy, Arul Anandar College, Karumathur, Madurai District 625 514, 16-17 March. (Invited Paper) (N) âOikotechnologyâ, XXI IACS International Conference on âSociety, Environment and Technology: Canada and Indiaâ,
Canadian Studies Centre, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 24-26 February. (I) 2004 âLiterary Migrancy in the Light of tinai Poetics.â World Conference on "The Migrant Voices in Literatures in
English", Nagpur, 30-31 January. (Invited Paper) (I)
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âAn Introduction to Ecocriticism.â Department of English, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli, 21 February.
(Invited Paper) 2003 âIntroduction to Ecopoetics.â UGC Refresher Course on "Modernism and Postmodernism" for Teachers of English,
Dept. of English and Comparative Literature, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 22 May. (Invited Paper) "Human Identity in Some Contemporary Asian Poems". Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, 5.12. 2003.
(Invited Paper)
Organiser with Lakshmi Narayan, National Conference on Chaos Theory, Madras Christian College, 31 October. "Diversity and Identity in Tamil Narrative Tradition", Seminar on Tamil Narrative Tradition. Dept. of English, Madras Christian College, 12 Sept. 2003.
2002 'Ecopoetics in Tamil Tradition', International Seminar of Tamil Studies, International Institute of Tamil Studies,
Chennai 600 113, 28-30 Dec. (Invited Paper) 'Land Ethics: An Ecological Model', Workshop cum Seminar on Bioethics, Department of Zoology, University of Madras,
18 January. 'Ecopoetry in Translation', Department of English, Shrimathi Devkunvar Nanalal Bhatt Vaishnav College for Women,
Chennai 600 044, 28 January. (Invited Paper) 16 'Land Ethics' Seminar on "The Changing Face of the Coastal Zone Between Madras and Mamallapuram",
Madras Christian College, Madras, October 12. âContemporary Tamil Ecopoetry,â Postgraduate Seminar, Department of Zoology, Madras Christian College, 8, Oct.
(Invited Paper) âEcopoetry.â Seminar on Curriculum Development, Centre for Women's Studies, Madras Christian College and Department of English, University of Madras, at Madras Christian College, Madras, 11 & 12 March. 'An Introduction to Indian Ecopoetics', National Concerns in Indian Writing in English / Translations, Refresher Course for College Teachers of English in Tamilnadu, 10 August. (Invited Paper) 'Womanhood in Early Tamil Tinai Society', Seminar on woman and family in literature, Department of English, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, 3 Mar. (Co-organizer) Poetic Order and Chaos Theory." Dynamics of Order and Disorder in Nature and Society: Chaos, Systems Theory and Chaocomplexology. 6th Annual Conference of NEST, University of Goa, at Kalyanapuram, Tamilnadu, 2-4 November, 2002. (Invited Paper) âUnderstanding Aboriginal Art: The Case of Australia", International Conference on "Understanding Australia:
Culture, Society and Polity". University of Madras, Chennai, 9-11 January. (Invited Paper) 2000 'Tamil Ecopoetics' UGC Refresher Course for English Teachers, Madras Christian College, Chennai, 12 February.
(Invited Paper)
"Canka kaalat tirunerikalil Tirunilam" (The Sacred Space in the Spiritual Traditions of Cankam Age). UGC-sponsored
Refresher Course for Teachers of Tamil, Tamil Department, Tamil University, Tanjavur, 10 March. (Invited Paper) 1999 âProblems of Translating Christian Tamil Hymnsâ Seminar on Translation, International Institute of Tamil Studies, Chennai, 24-26 February, 1999 (Invited Paper)
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âPreliminary Remarks on Narrative Dalit Theology'.â Seminar on Narrative Dalit Theology, Dhyana Ashram, Santhome, Chennai 6, 7 March. (Dalit Literature). (Invited Paper)
âAwareness Gendered.â National Seminar on Women and Social Justice, Department of English, and Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai, 1, 2 March. (Co-organizer)
âCulture Translation.â Keynote Address in Workshop on Teaching Translation. Stella Maris College, Chennai, 23 Jan. (Invited Paper)
Consultative Workshop on the preparation of a Tamil Prose Reader, Mozhi Trust, Chennai, 23 June.
1998 âVerse Grammar Translation.â Workshop on Translation, Stella Maris College, Chennai 10-12 Nov. âBanoak: A figure of Culture Translation.â International Conference on The Banyan and the Oak:
Translation and Cultural Representations, organised by the British Council at Chennai. Hotel Grand Orient, Chennai 29-31 Oct. (Invited Paper)
âBiographical Element in Early Tamil Tradition.â National Seminar on "Towards a Critical Biography in India", Chennai: India Studies Programme, University of Madras, 24-25, Mar. (Invited Paper)
1997 âEcopoetics in Tamil Tradition.â International Seminar of Tamil Studies, International Institute of Tamil Studies, Chennai 600 113, 28-30 Dec. (Invited Paper)
âLand Ethics: An Ecological Model.â Workshop cum Seminar on Bioethics, Department of Zoology, University of Madras, 18 January.
âEcopoetry in Translation.â Department of English, Shrimathi Devkunvar Nanalal Bhatt Vaishnav College for
Women, Chennai 600 044, 28 January. (Invited Paper)
âLand Ethics.â Seminar on "The Changing Face of the Coastal Zone Between Madras and Mamallapuram,â Madras Christian College, Madras, October 12.
âContemporary Tamil Ecopoetry.â Postgraduate Seminar, Department of Zoology, Madras Christian College,
8, Oct. (Invited Paper)
âEcopoetry.â Seminar on Curriculum Development, Centre for Women's Studies, Madras Christian College and Department of English, University of Madras, at Madras Christian College, Madras, 11 & 12 March.
âAn Introduction to Indian Ecopoetics.â National Concerns in Indian Writing in English / Translations,
Refresher Course for College Teachers of English in Tamilnadu, 10 August. (Invited Paper)
âWomanhood in Early Tamil Tinai Society.â Seminar on woman and family in literature, Department of English, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, 3 Mar.
âPostcoloniality and the Discourse of Development.â National Conference on the Configurations of Culture,
Post-coloniality, and Nationalism in Literature in English, Department of English, University of Madras, Chennai, 6 February. (Invited Paper)
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âLiterary Translation.â Seminar on Certificate Course in Translation, Ethiraj College, Chennai, 22 Nov. (Invited Paper)
Co-ordinator, with M.Bagavandas, "Who Suffers when the Environment is Degraded?" Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai. Sponsored by United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, New York.
1996 Investigator, "The Changing Face of the Coastal Zone between Madras and Mamallapuram: An Interdisciplinary
Study of Environmental and Ethical Issues", Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai. Sponsored by United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, New York.
âArt, Imagination, Culture: The Making of a Story.â Katha National Workshop, co-sponsored by Department
of English, University of Madras, and Madras Book Club, Chennai, at F-50, Century Building, University of Madras, Chennai 31 March and 1 April. (Invited Paper)
1994 âAncient Tamil Grass Skirt.â National Conference on Indigenous Science and Technology, Bharatidasan University, Tiruchi, 24-25 February. 15 (3N+7S+5L) Presidential Address on âAn Ecocritical Approach to Nayak Art.â Seminar-cum-Workshop on âMural Paintings:
Significance and Conservationâ. Jointly sponsored by Government Museum, Chennai, and Centre for Plants, People and Environment, Chennai, 9 October. (Invited Paper)
âEcocriticism to Oikopoetics.â Refresher Course in English, Department of English, Pondicherry University, 12 March. (Invited Paper)
Workshop on Project Kanchi: Katha's Interface with Academia (regarding preparation of textbook on Ecopoetics) organised by Katha, Sanskriti, Anandgram, New Delhi, 2-3 August. (Invited Paper)
'Tamil Ecopoetics' UGC Refresher Course for English Teachers, Madras Christian College, Tambaram,
Chennai, 12 February. (Invited Paper) * Otta kaatci (Tamil Philosophy), Tolkappiyam symposium, Department of Tamil, Bharatidasan University,
Tiruchirappalli, 28, Jan.
1992 * 'Methodology of Ancient Tamil Philosophy', Maraimalai Atikal Endowment Lecture-4, Chennai: International Institute of Tamil Studies, 6, 7 Sept. (Invited Paper)
'Kaatciiyal or Tamil Philosophy', Department of Philosophy, Madras Christian College, 19 December. (Invited Paper) Tiruvalluvar Aruliya Muppaal (The Three ultimate values of Tirukkural), Tamil research forum, Maraimalai Nagar,
Madras, 16, Jan. 'Ancient Tamil grass skirt', Seminar on Indigenous Science and Technology, Bharatidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 25
Feb. 'Womanhood in Early Tamil Tinai Society', Seminar on woman and family in literature, Department of English, Madras
Christian College, Tambaram, 3 Mar. 'Making another Tolkaappiyam: A verse grammar translation', Indo-British symposium on Literary translation into English, Madras, 5-9 Apr. (Invited Paper) (I)
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1991 âTaLai: An Ancient Tamil Garmentâ in the 11th session of the South Indian History Congress, University of Calicut, 1-3 February. 'A Response To Fr.Felix Koikara's Paper, "Culture and Values" Sophia Centre, Kottyam, 16 March. 1990 âThe case for an Alternative Social Order.â Seminar on Witnessing to the Faith in the context of Cultural Pluralism (AIACHE-sponsored), Madras Christian College, Tambaram, 28 Dec. - 1 Jan. (Invited Paper) 'Towards an End of Education', National Consultation on Indian Higher Education: Thrusts Into Future, 17-21 Sept.,
Madras Christian College, Tambaram. (Invited Paper) âThe Syllogistic Circle in Tolkaappiyamâ in the 65th session of the Indian Philosophical Congress, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 27-29 December. (I) âFree Verseâ at the 39th All-India English Teachersâ Conference, University of Madras, 28-31 December. 'Value Education', Seminar on Autonomy, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, 23-24 April.
âTinaippeyarâ (The people of tinai regions): An Inquiry into the relation between anthroponymy and toponymy', National Seminar on Dravidian Place Names, 11-12 March, Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore.
âDe-Developing Society: A case of the traditional social order.â National Workshop on Value Education, 13-18 June, Danishpet, Salem, Tamilnadu. (Invited Paper)
âEnvironment.â National Workshop on Value Education, 15-22 June, Danishpet, Salem, Tamilnadu. (Invited Paper)
âMass Communication.â National Workshop on Value Education, 15-22 June, Danishpet, Salem, Tamilnadu. (Invited Paper)
1988 âTolkaappiyam on Ca-Initial words', xiv All-India Conference of Dravidian Linguists, 13-15 January, ISDL, Trivandrum.
'Ca-Initial words in Tamil', Third Conference of the All India Association of Tamil Linguists, 25-27 Feb., Department of
Linguistics, Tamil University, Thanjavur. 'Tinaippeyar' (The people of tinai regions): An Inquiry into the relation between anthroponymy and toponymy', National
Seminar on Dravidian Place Names, 11-12 March, Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore. 'Elements of Axiology in Tolkaappiyam', International Seminar on South Indian Contribution to Indian Philosophy, 19-
21 Nov., International School of Dravidian Linguistics (ISTL), Trivandrum. (I) *'Tol Nerik Katavuliyal' (Theology in Tolkaappiyam), State Seminar on Tamil Christian Heritage,
Tamilnadu Theological Seminary, Arasaradi, Madurai, 28-30 Sept. (Invited Paper) 1987 'Values Among the Scrubs of Tambaram', Staff Study Circle, 19 March, Madras Christian College, Tambaram. 'Source of Indian Values', National Workshop on Value Education, 15-22 June, Danishpet, Salem, Tamilnadu.
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'Mass Communication', National Workshop on Value Education, 15-22 June, Danishpet, Salem, Tamilnadu. 1986 âModernization.â (with Arivudai Nambi), Seminar on the Javadi Hills of the Eastern Ghats of India, 21 April,
Madras Christian College, Tambaram. 1984 'Social Values in English Novels', Workshop in Social Ethics, CIRDS Centre, Madras Christian College, Tambaram. 1983 'Another Presupposition?' The problem of Identity in the context of (higher) education in Tamilnadu, Staff
Study Circle, 14 Oct., Madras Christian College, Tambaram. 1982 'Towards Capitalization of the '1' in literature', Seminar on Curriculum Development, 5 July, P.G. Department
of English, Madras Christian College, Tambaram. CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION/RESOURCE PERSON MUSIC 1990 âTamil Naattiyap Panpaatuâ (Tamil Drama Culture), International Institute of Tamil Studies, Taramani, Adyar. OTHER 2014 âTea For David.â In honour of Prof. David Washbrook, Trinity College, Cambridge, One-day conference
organized by Humanities and Social Sciences department, IIT-Madras, 8 December 2015. 2013 Forest, Livelihood. Organized by the Department of Social Work, Madras Christian College, 3-5 October, 2013. 2013. One-day workshop on âTeaching Grammarâ and âTeaching of English in Post-Independence India.â Central University of Tamil Nadu, Tiruvarur, 5 February, 2013. 2007 Resource Person, State Level Seminar on âEcocentrism: A New Visionâ at St.Johnâs College, Palayamkottai,
17 February. 2006 Participant, Regional Conference on âQuality Improvement and Sustenance In Higher Educationâ, at Madras
Christian College, Chennai, 20 -21 February.
Workshop on âOral Historyâ at National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai, 10 January. Regional Conference on Quality Improvement and Sustenance in Higher Education, sponsored by NAAC and
UBCHEA, at Madras Christian College, Chennai, 20-21 February, 2006.
Resource Person/Participant, Conference on Translators, at Tamil University, Tanjavur, organised by the Department of Translation, Tamil University, Tanjavur, and Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, on 26, 27 June.
Panelist. âContemporary South Asian Poetryâ for Students from Earlham College, Indiana, USA, at Womenâs Christian College, Chennai, 14 September.
2005 Participant, International Study Conference on Human Rights and Water, Department of Social Work, Madras Christian College, Chennai, 9-12 October, 2005.
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Moderator, Ramachandra Guhaâs session on âHistory and Literature,â Workshop on Literature Teaching, organized by the British Council, Chennai, at Stella Maris College, Chennai, 7 July.
National Seminar on the Pillars of Vision India: Panini, Bharthrihari, and Tolkaappiyar, organsied by the Central
Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, at University of Madras, 31 March-3 April.
Consultative Workshop on Folklore Teaching, National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai, 25 June. Resource Person, Two-day National Conference on Current Theories and Their Impact on Teaching of Literature,
St.Josephâs College, Tiruchi, 9-10 February. Chaired the seminar and responded to Dr.Venkatachalapathyâs paper, âThe Making of the Literary Canon in Colonial
Tamil Naduâ, at Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, 31 October. 2004 Two-day Symposium on âFormative Phase in South Indian History: The Earliest Tamil (Brahmi) Writings and Recent
Archaeological Discoveriesâ at Madras Institute of Development Studies, 6-7 February, 2004. Chaired a session in the II World Conference on "The Migrant Voices in the Literatures in English,â Nagpur, 30, 31 January. 2003-6 Co-Investigator, "Nayak Paintings". Funded by Ford Foundation. 2003 International Conference on âColonialism and Modernity: Mediated through Theoryâ at the Department of English,
University of Madras, 18-19 December, 2003. Chaired a session in the International Conference on "Colonialism and Modernity: Mediated Through Theory,â
Department of English, University of Madras, 18, 19 Dec. Panelist, National Workshop on the "Voice of the Voiceless,â Department of English, Loyola College, Chennai,
10-11 January. Moderator, National Workshop on the "Voice of the Voiceless,â Department of English, Loyola College, Chennai,
10-11 January.
Workshop on Translation, Katha, New Delhi, at the Department of English, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai, 28 February & 1 March.
Workshop on Planning and Teaching Courses in Translation studies, Katha, New Delhi, and Department of English, University of Madras, at the Department of English, University of Madras, 21 March.
2001 Seminar on âLiterature, Culture and Translationâ Department of English, University of Madras, 7 March, 2001. Seminar, Department of English, University of Madras, Chennai, 11 January. Inter-University Seminar on Intersection of Identities in Canadian Literature, at the Research Department of English,
Bharati Womenâs College, Chennai, 1-2 March. 2000 Special Lecture Programme and Workshop at the Department of English, University of Madras, Chennai,
29 August, 2000.
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All-India Conference of Dravidian Linguists, conducted by the International School of Dravidian Linguistics,
at Idayangudi, 22-24 June. Seminar on âIntersection of History and Fiction in Canadian Literatureâ organized by the State Institute of English,
Tamil Nadu, 27-28 March. Chaired the Session, âThe Dilemmas of the Translator: Truth in Negotiation and Fidelity in Translation.â Katha
International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Short Story, Sanskriti Kendra, Anandgram, Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road, New Delhi, 20 December.
Workshop on English Language Teaching for teachers in Indian institutions of higher education sponsored by the
United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia conducted by Clifford Hill of Columbia University and Kathleen Hill of Sarah Lawrence College, USA, at Stella Maris College, Chennai, 7-9 May.
1997 Coordinator, with M.Bagavandas, "Who Suffers when the Environment is Degraded?â Madras Christian College,
Tambaram, Chennai. Sponsored by United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, New York. Workshop on Networking of Autonomous Colleges, University Grants Commission, Hyderabad, and Stella Maris College, Madras, 26 & 27 October.
Workshop on "Teacher Development", British Council Division, Madras, 28-30 Nov. National Seminar on âHigher Education in India: Relevancce and Challengesâ at the Departments of Arts and Commerce, Stella Maris College, Chennai, 31 January, 1 February.
Panelist, Translating Genres other than the short story, Vak-Utsav, Katha South, Anna University, 3 May. 1996 Workshop on âArt, Imagination, Culture: The Making of a Story,â organized by Katha and the University of Madras,
at the University of Madras, 31 March, and 1st April, 1996.
Investigator, "The Changing Face of the Coastal Zone between Madras and Mamallapuram: An Interdisciplinary Study of Environmental and Ethical Issues,â Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai. Sponsored by United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, New York.
Seminar on Curriculum Development, Madras Christian College, Chennai, 11, 12 March. In-service Teacher Development Seminar-cum-workshop for Teachers of English on Teaching of Literary Criticism
and Critical Theory, State Institute of English, Tamilnadu, Department of English, University of Madras, at the Centenary Building, University of Madras, Chennai, 5-7 February.
1995 Delegate from Madras Christian College (MCC) with the Principal of MCC, UGC Southern Regional Workshop
on Networking of Autonomous Colleges, at Stella Maris College, Chennai, 26-27 October. 1994 Conserving our Ecological Heritage: The Tamil Tradition, C.P.Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation, 1 Eldams Road,
Madras - 600 118, 14 September.
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Lectures on the Nature of Science, Technology and Society in Pre-British India, Vidhya Mandir School, Mylapore,
Madras (organised by Patriotic and People-Oriented Science and Technology) 22 & 29 March.
Workshop on Project Kanchi: Katha's Interface with Academia (regarding preparation of textbook on Ecopoetics)
organised by Katha, Sanskriti, Anandgram, New Delhi, 2-3 August.
1993 Interdisciplinary Seminar on Bio-ethics, Max Muller Bhavan Library, Chennai, 21 October.
Workshop on Futurology: Sustainable Society: Scan and Plan, Department of Zoology, University of Madras, 26-28 June.
Lectures on the Nature of Science, Technology and Society in Pre-British India, Vidhya Mandir School, Mylapore, Madras (organised by Patriotic and People-Oriented Science and Technology) 22 & 29 March.
Presidential Address on âAn Ecocritical Approach to Nayak Art.â Seminar-cum-Workshop on âMural Paintings: Significance and Conservation.â Jointly sponsored by Government Museum, Chennai, and Centre for Plants, People and Environment, Chennai, 9 October.
âEcocriticism to Oikopoetics,â Refresher Course in English, Department of English, Pondicherry University, 12 March.
âAn Introduction to Ecocriticism,â Workshop on Modern Literary Theory and Criticism, Gandhigram Rural Institute-Deemed University, 29 January.
Workshops on âThe Impact of Environmental Degradation.â Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai, July, August. (Co-organizer)
"Colloquium on Globalisation of Mass Media: Consequences for Indian Cultural Values,â United Theological College, Bangalore, 29, 30, 31 July.
Workshop on Project Kanchi: Katha's Interface with Academia (regarding preparation of textbook on Ecopoetics)
organised by Katha, Sanskriti, Anandgram, New Delhi, 2-3 August. 1991 "Tamilnadu in 2000 A.D.", St.Thomas's Hall, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai, 16 September. Workshop on Futurology: Sustainable Society: Scan and Plan, Department of Zoology, University of Madras, 26-28 June. Resource Person, Mass Action for National Regeneration programme, Mudichur, Tambaram, 5 May. Lectures on the Nature of Science, Technology and Society in Pre-British India, Vidhya Mandir School, Mylapore,
Madras (organised by Patriotic and People-Oriented Science and Technology) 22 & 29 March. 1990 Workshop on Teaching Grammar Communicatively. Organised by Orient Longman and the British Council Division,
Madras, conducted by Judith Baker of Pilgrims Language Courses Centre at Canterbury, UK, 5-6 March, Teachersâ Centre, Church Park, Madras.
Seminar on Tamil Dramatic Tradition, International Institute of Tamil Studies, Chennai, 13 February.
Moderator, Seminar on American Women Writers, English Association, Department of English, Madras Christian College, Madras, 20 February.
Resource Person for âSocial Order and Faith,â Institute for Advanced Christian Studies, Madras Christian College,
Chennai.
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Director, Workshop on Social Ethics, 30 June, Anderson Hall, Madras Christian College, Chennai.
1989 Workshop on âFuturology: Sustainable Society: Scan and Planâ Department of Zoology, University of Madras,
26-28 June, 1989. Workshop on 'Syllabus Design and ELT Materials Production for Teachers of English,â Presidency College,
Madras, 25 Jan. Member of team of University teachers invited to prepare a Prose Anthology for 1 year UG for the University of Madras. Director, Workshop on Social Ethics, 1 July, CIRDS, Madras Christian College, Chennai. 1988 Workshop on Teacher Development conducted by Rod Bolitho, Deputy Director, International Education Centre,
College of St.Mark and St,John, Plymouth, UK, 28-30 November. Seminar on 'The Changing ELT Scene in South Indiaâ, conducted by C.J.Brumfit, Prof. of Education, University of
Southampton, UK, at the British Council Division, Madras, 27 August. Workshop on Value Education, Danishpet, Salem, Tamilnadu, 13-18 June. (Co-organizer)
Workshop on English Literature Teaching in India: Background and Case for Curriculum Development, British Council, Madras, 16-20 Feb.
Seminar-cum-Workshop on Discourse Analysis, 19-21 March, British Council, Madras.
Faculty Improvement Programme: In-service Training Course for Professors/Assistant Professors of English in
Tamilnadu Colleges, 16-18 Nov., British Council, Madras. 1987 14th Symposium of Writers and Readers, Friends Literary Circle, 25-26 Jan., Inter-Church Service Agency, Madras. Workshop on Value Education, Danishpet, Salem, Tamilnadu, 15-22 June. (Co-organizer) Director (with Dr.J.T.K.Daniel), Training Course in Value Education, 2-12 May, Krishtu Jyoti College, Bangalore. 1986 Remedial English. A University Grants Commission-sponsored project called COHSSIP, Madras Christian College,
Tambaram. 1985 In service Training Seminar-cum-workshop on the Techniques of Teaching Drama for College Teachers of English,
16-25 Sept., Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai.
Workshop on Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), 9-10 Feb., British Council, Madras. 1984 âSocial Values in English Novels,â Workshop in Social Ethics, CIRDS Centre, Madras Christian College, Tambaram. (Co-organizer) Ethical Reflections on the play Nilal, study material for Social Ethics, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai. Consultation on Value Education in Autonomous Colleges, All India Association for Christian Higher Education,
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23-28 April, Kristu Jyoti College, Bangalore. 1983 âWorkshop on Human Rights and Womenâ Gurukul Campus, Madras, 11-13 September. ENDOWMENT LECTURES 2016 Dr. Lourdu Memorial Endowment Lecture on âceyyuLiyal allatu kalaiyiyalâ (On the theory of art).
Department of Folklore, St.Xavierâs College, Paalayamkoottai, 1 March 2016.
2015 Endowment Lecture on the renowned Musicologist V.P.K. Sundaram and Tamil Musicology in honour of Dr. V.P.K.Sundaram. Department of Performing Arts, Bharatidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 26 March 2015.
2014 âThe Ecotheoretical Turn of Theory Through the Literary Lens.â Seventeenth Endowment Lecture in the name of Padma Bhushan Dr. Rajah Sir M.A. Muthiah Chettiar of Chettinad. Department of Modern Indian Languages,
University of Delhi, 7 March, 2014. 1999 âTolkaappiyattin tinai nuTpankaLâ (The Nuances of tinai in Tolkaappiyam). AruLmiku MaNivaLan aTikaLaar Endowment Lecture, St.Josephâs College, Tiruchi, 31 August, 1999. 1992 âTamizhk kaaTci neRiyiyal.â ( 'Methodology of Ancient Tamil Philosophy'), Maraimalai Atikal Endowment Lecture-4, Madras: International Institute of Tamil Studies, 6, 7 Sept. INVITEE OF CELEBRITY LECTURES
Deepak Nayyarâs Distinguished Lecture at Queenâs University, Belfast, N.Ireland. Noam Chomskyâs Lecture on Language and Linguistics in Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. Jane Goodallâs lecture at the British Council Division, Chennai. David Crystalâs lecture on Linguistics at the British Council Division, Chennai. V.S.Naipaulâs reading from his work, Landmark, Chennai. Umberto Ecoâs Talk at the Institute of Indology, Pondicherry. A.R.Ammonsâs Poetry reading at Davidson College, Davidson, USA, 1994. Sudeep Senâs Poetry reading at Davidson College, Davidson, USA, 1994.
INVITED LECTURES ABROAD MUSIC 2015 âTamil Christian Music.â Course on South Asian Religion. Carleton College, USA, 2015 (though skype on 29 April)
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2011 â Tamil Christian Hymn.â Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA. 2009 âThe Carnatic Epiphyte on the Tamil Music Tree.â Department of Music, Elmhurst College, Chicago, USA, 4 May.
âTamil Music Todayâ. Department of Music, Universitat Dortmund, Germany, 22 November.
OTHER 2015 âThe Sacred in Dravidian India.â Course on South Asian Religion. Carleton College, USA (though skype on 26 April) 2014 âEcocriticism, Envirocriticism and tiNai Criticism.â Seminar Series, School of English,
University of Hong Kong, 23 October 2014. 2011 âPossession in tiNai society.â Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA, 2011.
âtiNai and the Tamils.â North East Ohio Tamil Sangam, Ohio, USA. 21 May. âIndian Art: A New Perspective.â Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 7 June 2011.
âRegional Paradigms in Indian Art.â India Scholar Reception, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 26 April 2011.
2009 "Women in tinai and state societies." Women and Religion, Department of Religion, University of Hawaii at Manoa,
10 April. 1995 âEcological Poetryâ Department of English, Rutgerâs State University, NJ, USA, 18 April.
INVITED LECTURES IN INDIA MUSIC 2015 âPerformability of cagkam Compositions.â School of Art and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 5.30 pm, 19 March 2015. 2005 âMusic and Culture.â Good Earth School, Naduviirappattu, Chennai, 30 June, 2005. OTHER 2015 âThe Way of Our Primal Home.â Lecture-Workshop on âCulture, Sustainability and Creativity: Rethinking Business Today.â Indus Business Academy, Bangalore, Friday, 10 April 2015. (I) 2014 âVarieties of Ecocriticism.â Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore, 12 September, 2014 2014 âEcocriticism and Indian Ecocriticism.â Department of English, Bharatiyar University, Coimbatore, 12 September, 2014
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2013 âEcocriticism.â Christ University, Bangalore, 22 June 2013. 2012 âtiNaikaLil uRaiyum tamizhar ulakam.â (The world of the Tamils in tiNaikaL). A Public Lecture at Sangam 4: maarkazhit tamizhar vizha, CSI Synod Hall, Royapettah, Chennai. 22 December 2012. 2011 An Appraisal of M.L.Thangappaâs Red Lilies and Frightened Birds. Trans. of muttoLLaayiram. New Delhi: Penguin, 2011. Book Release Event, Putuvait tamizhc cankam, Pondicherry, 9.10. 2011. âOverview of the Diversity of Indian Cultures and Diverse Perceptions of the Environment.â Guest Lecture at the Semester-in-India programme for Davidson College, at Madras Christian College, Chennai, 7 September, 2011. 2007 Resource Person, UGC-SAP-DRS sponsored Workshop on the âFormation of Literary Theoriesâ, Department of Tamilology, Pondicherry University, 28-30 January, 2007.
Resource Person, National Seminar on âThe Legacy of Saussure and Contemporary Indian Experienceâ, organized by CIIL, Mysore, at ASSM College, Mukandpur, Punjab, 9-11February, 2007.
2006 Five Lectures in the Course in Semiotics on Tolkaappiyam and Semiotics, Karnatak University, Dharwad, 17-31 January, 2006.
Public Lecture: âThe Ontological Principle in Ecocriticism.â National Folklore Support Centre, Nungampakkam, Chennai, 16 June, 2006.
âEcoliterature.â Meenakshi College for Women, Chennai, 24 February, 2006.
âEcological Criticism.â Semester- in-India Programme of Davidson College, NC, USA, at Madras Christian College, 28 September.
2005 Resource Person, Five-day Workshop on âModern Literary Theory and Criticismâ, Faculty of English and Foreign Languages, The Gandhigram Rural Institute-Deemed University, Gandhigram, Dindigul, 27-31 January, 2005. 2004 âPart II English: Quality Improvement.â Refresher Course, Madras Christian College, Chennai, 11-15 October, 2004.
âThe Centre Derrida Did Not See.â A Public Lecture on Jacques Derrida, Hall for Tamil Nadu Government Workers Union, Triplicane, 25 November, 2004.
1990 âSocial Order and Faith.â Institute for Advanced Christian Studies, Madras Christian College, Chennai.
UGC Refresher Course Lectures at University of Madras (1994, 1996, 2000, February 2001 at Stella Maris College, November 2001at Ethiraj College, 2003, 2005, 2006), Bharatidasan University (2002), Madurai Kamaraj University (2003), Tamil University (2004), Pondicherry University (2005), Goa University (2007).
PROJECT MUSIC & PERFORMANCE
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2015 Consultant, Project funded by US Embassy, New Delhi, Performance on âWindows At The Edge of Water:
Toward Our Future Citiesâ coordinated by Dr. Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Macalaster College, St. Paul, MN, USA. 2015
2014 Composing music and playing the guitar for a performance project in Indian and Hong Kong,
coordinated by Dr. Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, University of Washington, Bothell, USA, 1-15 August 2014; 9 October â 2 November 2014.
2010-2012 Project Advisor, Collection of Oral Literature of Mudugar and Kurumbar of Attappaadi, India,
World Oral Literacy Project, U of Cambridge, 2010-2012. 2006 A Monograph on Tamil Musicology. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 2006. OTHER 2010-2012 Project Advisor, Creation of Digital Dictionary of Mudugar Language, Firebird Foundation for
Anthropological Research, USA, 2010-2012.
2006 âEditing the Translations of paripaaTal.â Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 2006.
2005 Member, Project on Tamil Prose Reader, MOZHI Trust, Chennai, 2005.
2005 Member, Expert Committee Meeting, Project titled, âBhasha Mandakiniâ of Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 2-5 May, 2005.
2004-2006 Co-investigator, âNayak Paintings in Tamil Nadu.â Funded by Ford Foundation, 2004-2006.
1998 Translator of O.Henryâs Stories, a project of Katha, New Delhi, 1998. 1997-1998 âWho Suffers When the Environment is Degraded?â Project funded by United Board for Christian
Higher Education, USA; project budget Rs.2,00,000. 1996-1997 "The Impact of Environmental Degradation", funded by United Board for Christian Higher Education, USA;
Madras Christian College, Chennai, 1996-1997.
Contributor to Katha-IRD project on âMetaphor and Translation,â 1996-1997.
1995 Translator, Select Songs of Mayuram Vedanayagar, United Theological College, Bangalore, 1995.
1994 Translation of select poems of Bharatidasanâs into English, Sahitya Akademi, 1994.
1989 Editing a Prose Anthology, Department of English, University of Madras, 1989.
1988 Director of the COHSSIP (College Humanities and Social Science Improvement Programme), Department of English, Madras Christian College, Chennai, 1988.
1981 Religious Word Book, Tamil Theological Book Club, Madurai, 1981.
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EXPERT PANEL MEMBER In more than a dozen books on the English language published by Thomson and Vijay Nicole Imprints
Private Limited, 2004. OTHER EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE 1997 Editorial Committee. Self-Study Project 1997-1998, Madras Christian College, Tambaram. 1995 with Michael Lockwood, Michael Faraday, Mathivanan edited Madras Christian College Magazine LX (1994-1995). 1993 Editor. Newsletter. Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai. 1987 Co-edited with P.Rajani. English: A Research Journal. Department of English, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai. (1987-88).
Assistant Editor. Journal of the Department of Philosophy, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai, March.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES Society for Ethnomusicology (annual member)
Forum on Contemporary Theory (life member)
Association for American Geographers (annual member) American Academy of Religion (annual member) Association for Asian Studies (annual member)
Indian Association for Canadian Studies (life member) Association for Studies on Australia (life member) Honorary Life Member, North American Ohio Tamil Sangam, USA Founder, tiNai (formerly, Organisation for the Study of Literature and Environment-India) International Association for the History of Religions (annual member) CREATIVE WRITING
THEATRE
2002 Mother Change. Chennai: Madras Christian College, 2002. (Playscript; adaptation of Hayavadana)
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1999 *pakavatiyaa pacca? Madras Christian College Magazine LXV (1999) : 53-54. (playlet) 1982 Shadow (nizal). English: A Research Journal. Department of English, Madras Christian College, 1987-1988,
30-34. A street play (nizal) I wrote in Tamil, directed and acted. Staged in various parts of Chennai. (My essay based on this play, âHow Moral Can A Play Be?â appeared in English: A Research Journal. Department of English, Madras Christian College, 1987-1988, 24-29. POETRY 1994-5 tiNai haikus and two other poems in Vaanam Pirantatu (A volume of poems), Madras: Department of Tamil, Madras
Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai.
Ten Haikus in Tamil, South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection, Winter, 4, 50-51. 1984 Six verses in the present author's article, 'ceyyuL aaRRuppaTai' (Guide to Art), Madras Christian College Magazine, LII and LIII (1983-84): 109.
*A verse in the present author's article, 'Icaiyiyal: Vayil Nertal' (Musicology: Introduction), Madras Christian College
Magazine, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai, LIV, 82. 1983 *Six verses in the present author's article, 'Ceyyul Arruppatai' (Guide to Art), Madras Christian College Magazine, LII
and LIII (1983-84), 109. STUDY MATERIALS 1978 T.S.Eliot: An Introduction (for correspondence Course), Madurai Kamaraj University. MEDIA PROGRAMMES RADIO TALK 2012 *âIntroduction to paripaaTal.â FM Rainbow, Chennai, All-India Radio, 10.02 A.M. 27 July, 2012. (in Tamil) 2007 âcaanRoor cintanaikaL.â (Words of the Wisemen) on Chennai A, February 2007. 2006 âSleep in English Literatureâ (Tamil), All India Radio, Chennai A, 8 pm, 12 February. TELEVISION TALK 2012 âDo We Give Undue Importance to English?â niiyaa naanaa? (You or Me?). Vijay TV. Chennai.
30 Oct.2012. 2007 Television interview on âTinai,âin âCevvi,â Makkal Television, September, 2007 2006 âRed Earth and the Pouring Rainâ (On Monsoons in India), NDTV. 2000 âOn Literatureâ Jaya Television, 13 October.
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