DR. DONA ELIZABETH SAM

General Information:

Designation : Assistant Professor

Mobile : 9497359944

Email : [email protected]

Address : LILLIES, 27/A ROSE NAGAR, SREEKARIYAMTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA – 695017

Department : ENGLISH

Area of Specialization : WOMEN’S STUDIES, WRITINGS OF THE SELF, TRAUMA LITERATURE

  • Ph.D, THE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES UNIVERSITY, INDIAN AND WORLD LITERATURES,  2017
  • M.A., HYDERABAD CENTRAL NIVERSITY, ENGLISH, 2013
  • B.A., KERALA UNIVERSITY, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, 2011

Teaching Experience : 4 YEARS

Research oriented, ICT Enabled

S.No  Year  Publication  
Title
Name of Journal  National/International Vol& Issue Page  
No(s)
2018  “Afghan  
Women,  
History,  
Personhood and  Literary  
Representation”
Online 
International  
Interdisciplinary  Research Journal
International  222- 230
2018  ““Muslim”  
Women:  
Representations  in  
Contemporary  Women’s  
Writings”
International  
Journal of Higher  Education and  
Research  
(IJHER)
International  454- 
468
2018  “The Woman,  Voice and the  Subject of  
Freedom in The  Patience  
Stone”
International  
Journal of  
English Language  & Literature in  Humanities
International  932-940
2017  “Self Assertion  and  
Subjecthood  
through Nature:  A Study of 
Mary Oliver’s  Poems”
Environmental  Literature:  
Research Papers  and Poems
Book
2015  “Tales of  
Madness and War: A Brief  Literary
History of
Afghanistan”
Literary Quest  National  30-40
2015  “Womanhood”:  Images in Post  9/11 Afghan  
Fictional  
Narratives”
Literary Herald  National  82-89
S.No  Name Of the Book  Year of  
Publication
Name of Publisher
Discourses of  Freedom 2021  CoText Publishers
S.No Title of Seminar/ Conference etc Title of Paper Invited/Participatio n/Contribution Agency/ Venue Date National/ International/
Regional
1 National Webinar Series Gender Studies: Definitions, Narratives and Conflicts Invited Lecture Al-Azhar College of Arts and Science, Thodupuzha,
Kerala
October 12,
2020
National
2 Extending Postcolonialism: Precarity and Precariousness “Self-Imposed Victimhood of Cipriano in Jose
Saramago’s The Cave
Paper presentation Christ University, Bangalore 4th and 5th of Februar y, 2019 National
3 Movements and Migrancies “Questions of Temporality, Existence and Identity: An Exploration of Afghan – American
Women’s Poetry”Poetry”
Paper presentation University of Toronto, Canada 27th and 28th of April, 2016 International
4 Multicultural India: Inclusiveness and New Humanities “Multiculturalis m, its Nature and Accommodativ eness in India: A Reading of
Rape Poems”
Paper presentation Pondicherry University 22 and 23rd of Februar y, 2016. International
5 Transitions: Literature, Language, and Culture – Post 1980 “Contesting Borders: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender in Gloria
Anzaldua’s Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza”
Paper presentation Garden City College, Bangalore 6-7
Februar y 2015
International
6 Postcoloniality, Globalization and Transnationality in Literature “Women in Between: An Analysis of Expatriate Afghan
Women’s Poems”
Paper presentation Amal College, Nilambur 29-30
October 2014
National
7 Life and Literature in the Post 9/11 World ““Womanhood”
: Images in Post 9/11 Afghan Fictional
Narratives”
Paper presentation St.Teresa’s College, Ernakulam 23-24
Septem ber 2014
National
8 Representations of Subalternity in Cinema: Issues and
Challenges in a Globalized India
“The Woman, Voice and the Subject of Freedom in The
Patience Stone”
Paper presentation SN College, Chempazhanty
, Trivandrum
28-29
August 2014
National
S.No  Semester  Paper Code  UG- Title  PG – Title
EN1CC01  Fine-tune Your  
English
EN1CC02  Pearls from the Deep
III  EN3CC05  Literature and/as  
Identity
III  EN3CR03  Harmony of Prose
EN5CROP03  English for Careers
6 EN010102  Literatures of the English  Renaissance
II  EN010201  Modernity and Modernisms 
III  EN010304  Literature and Gender