Dr NEETHU VARGHESE

General Information:

Designation : Assistant Professor

Mobile : 9847139534

Email : [email protected]

Address : House No:34, Ambady Gardens, Ambady Kavala, Kudamaloor Po, Kottayam

Department : English

Area of Specialization : Women’s Studies

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • Ph.D, University of Kerala, English, 2019
  • M.A., University of Kerala, English, 2008
  • B.A., University of Kerala, English, 2006

Membership In Academic Bodies

  • Deputy Chairman, BoE, MG University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Experience : 13 years

TEACHING METHODOLOGY

Interactive, Flipped Classrooms, Google classroom, Seminars, Presentations, Role plays, Debates, Reviews, Project Based Learning.

INVOLVEMENT IN ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

  • Question Paper Setting and valuation of internal as well as University exams
  • College Union Advisor for 2018-19, 2019- 20, 2020-21, 2021-2022
  • Member of Admission Committee for 2018-2019, 2019- 20, 2020-21, 2021-2022
  • Member of Walk with A Scholar Committee- 2019-2020
  • Member of Ethics Committee- 2019-2020
  • Member of Research & Development and Journal Club- 2020-2021, 2021-
  • Class tutorship:

II DC M1 – 2018-19
III DC M1- 2019-2020
I DC M2- 2020-2021
II DC M2- 2021-2022

  • Department of English Alumni Secretary – 2019- 20, 2020-21, 2021-22.
  • Organizing Committee member, VYKHARI International Lecture Series (September 15 to October 1 2021)
  • Coordinator of the National Seminar titled “Public Intellectual” organized by Department of English, BCM College, Kottayam.

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS : PAPER/ CHAPTER

S.No Year Publication Title Name of
Journal		 National/International
Vol & Issue		 Page
No(s)
1 2019 Re-weaving the
Legends		 International
Journal of
English
Language and
Literature in
Humanities		 Volume 7, Issue 7
ISSSN 2321-7065		 1-7
2 2019 In the wake of the
memoir boom New rhetoric of
woman’s identity		 International
Journal of English
Language and
Literature in
Humanities		 Volume 7,
Issue ISSN – 2321-7065
Volume 7, Issue 7		 42-50
3 2018 Engaging Hamlet
and Moby Dick:
A case Study in
Inter-generic
Affinity		 International
Journal of
English
Language and
Literature in
Humanities		 Volume 6, Issue 8
ISSN 2321-7065		 57-64
4 2018 A Space of Her

Own

 ROOTS,
International
Journal of
Multidisciplinary
Researches		 Volume4,
ISSN:2349- 8684
March 2018		 118-120
5 2019 Creating
“Counter
Canons”:
Reconfiguring
Autobiographic
al Canons		 ROOTS
International
Journal of
Multidisciplinary
Researches		 Volume 5 ISSN:
2349- 8684
Special
Issue 3 February
2019 (29-32)		 29-32
6 2019 Breaking
the moulds:
Re reading
of Dalit
Women’s
autobiogra
phies		 ROOTS
International
Journal of
Multidisciplinary
Researches		 Volume 6
ISSN:2349- 8684
August
2019		 1-5

S.N 
o.		 Project 
Title		 Funding 
Agency 
and 
Amount		 Year of 
Commencement		 Status 
Completed/ongoi ng		 Collaboration if any
1  Emerging  
Womanhood: Malayali  
Women  
Writings		 UGC 
1,50,000/-		 2012  Completed  Nil

Sl  
No		 Title of  
Seminar/  
Conference		 Title of Paper  Invited/  
Participation/  contribution		 Agency/ Venue  Date  National/  
International/  Regional
1  One day  
International  
Conference on  “Radiance of  
Feminism in the Contemporary  
Society”		 “Writing the  
Gendered  
Subaltern”		 Presented  
Paper		 Namakkal,  
Tamil Nadu		 16 March 
2018		 International
2  National  
Seminar on  
Literature and  
Ecology: 
Ecocritical  
Discourses on  
English and  
Sanskrit  
Literatures		 Women and  
Nature		 Invited  
Lecture		 KKTM 
Government  
College, Pullut  sponsored by  
DCE, Govt of  Kerala		 21 and 22  November  2019 National
3  Two Day  
National Seminar  on 
Blurring the 
Boundaries:  
Theory as an  
Intetext		 Destabilising  
the notion of 
Malayali  
Womanhood  
through the acts  of narrative 
Resistance: A  Reading of  
Women’s Self Writing in  
Kerala		 Invited  
Lecture		 Alphonsa  
College, Pala		 19- 20 
February  
2020		 National
4  Autobiographical Writings Lecture on 
Malayali 
Women 
Autobiographies		 Invited  
Lecture		 MG University, Kottayam 23 April 
2020		 Regional
5  National Seminar  on Contemporary  Shakespeare:  
Culture,  
Language and 
Politics		 Engaging  
Hamlet and  
Moby Dick: A  Case Study in  Inter- generic  
Affinity		 Presented  
paper		 School of  
Distance  
Education,  
University of  
Kerala in  
support of  
ELTAI and  
British Council		 7 
September  2016		 National
6  National Seminar  on Crime against  Women: A 
growing menace  to society		 Is this a boy or a  girl: A study 
based on  
transgender  
journey		 Presented  
paper		 Department of Sociology,  
BCM College,  Kottayam		 19th and 
20 th  
January 
2015		 National
7  National  
Conference on  Breaking the  
Silence:  
Empowerment of  Women		 Performing  
Gender and  
Identity: A  
reading of  
Select Women  Narratives		 Presented  
paper		 Research  
Department of  English,  
Nirmala College  for Women		 30 August 2019 National
8 International  
Conference on 
New Waves in 
Language and 
Literature		 Articulating  
Resistance: A 
Critique of the  Personal 
Narratives of 
Dalit Women		 Presented a  
paper		 Sri  
Krishna  
Arts and  
Science 
College, 
Coimbatore on		 9th 
February 
2019		 International
9  International  
Conference on  the  
representation of Marginalized  
Identities in  
Literature		 Canons: 
Reconfiguring Autobiographical Canons		 Presented a  
paper		 N M S Vasan  
College,  
Madurai		 7th  
February 
2019		 International
10  National  
Workshop and  Seminar on		 A Politics of  
scripting Lives:  Personal  
narratives of		 Presented a  
paper		 Institute 
of  
English,  
University  
of 
Kerala,  
Trivandrum		 14 to 19 
March  
2016		 National
11  National Seminar  on The Public 
Intellectual		 Coordinator  Department of English, BCM  College,  
Kottayam		 3 August 
2018		 National
12  National seminar  on Narrating 
Travel, Mapping  Identities		 Chaired a  
session		 Institute of  
English,  
Trivandrum		 5-7 
March  
2018		 National
13  National Seminar on  
Body, text and  
Performance: 
Theory and  
Praxis		 Chaired a  
session		 Post  
Graduate  
Department  
and Centre  
for 
Research in  
English		 30 th  
January  
2019.		 National
14  National Seminar  on Critical  
Theory and  
Ecological  
Interconnectedness		 Chaired a  
session		 Postgraduate  
Department of  English, BCM College,  
Kottayam		 2 
December  2019		 National

Sl  
No		 Title  Funding  
Agency		 Venue  Date  Regional/ 
National/  
International
1  National Webinar  on Literature after  Pandemic :  
Conjectures and  
Consideration s		 Participation  St Xavier’s College for  women, Aluva 15 July 2020  National
2  National Webinar on Literature and  Language : Are  
they Poles Apart?		 Participation  NSS college,  
Pandalam		 30 May 
2020		 National
3  Webinar on Impact  of Covid on Higher  education Participation  St Mary’ s College,  Manarcaud and Kerala  History Congress 31 May 
2020		 Regional
4  National  
Webinar on  
Spoken  
Writing or 
Written Speech		 Participation  Department of  
English, BCM  
College, Kottayam		 18 May 
2020		 National
5  National Webinar  on Preparing for  Online Teaching Participation  SH College, Thevara  21 May 
2020		 National
6  Webinar on  
NAAC 
Accreditation  
for 
Autonomous/ 
Affiliated Colleges		 Participation  St Thomas College,  Pala 22 May 
2020		 National
7  National  
Webinar on  
Academic E  
content  
Development and Online
Course
Delivering		 Participation  Bishop Abraham  
Memorial College,  Thuruthicaud		 30 May 
2020		 National
8  National Webinar  Series on 
Pandemic and Post Pandemic  
Reflection		 Participation  Bharat Mata College,  Trikkakara 15,19,30 
May 20		 National
9  Webinar on  
“Rebuilding  
Kerala: Re  
visioning  
Landscape  
management		 Participation  St Thomas College,  Kozhencherry 12 May 
2020		 National
10  Webinar on Post  Corona Facelift of Religion and 
Culture: An 
Anthropological  Analysis of the 
pandemic		 Participation  Baselius  
College,Kottayam		 8 May 
2020		 National
11  National Lecture  Series Participation  Baselius College,  
Kottayam		 11 May 
2021		 National
12  National Webinar  on Gender and  
Society		 Participation  Department of  
English, St  
George’s College, 
Aruvithura		 29 July 2020  National
13  National Webinar  Series on The 
Emergence of the  Embedded Self in  Disability  
Narratives		 Participation  SB College,  
Changanacherry		 29 July 2020  National
14  Gendered Sites,  
Everyday Lives		 Participation  CWS Cotton  
University		 12 July 2020  International
15  Mental Illness in  Indian Cinema:  
Stigma and  
Stereotypes”,		 Participation  St Xaviers College,  Aluva 26 June 
2020		 National
16  National Seminar  on Contemporary Feminism: Politics  and Priorities Participation  HHMSPBNSS 
Neeramankara  
College, 
Neeramankara		 22 July 2020  National
17  CAS and  
UGC 
Regulations		 Participation  Marthoma College,  Chungathara 3 August 
2020		 Regional
18  “Women, Art and  Indian Society: A Reading of 
Women’s 
paintings”		 Participation  Gurudev Artsand  
Indian Society		 14 July 2020  National
19  MEDHA 
Webinar Series		 Participation  DB College, 
Thalayolaparambu		 7 May 
2020		 Regional
20  National  
Webinar on  
outcome 
based Education		 Participation  BCM College,  
Kottayam		 14 May 
2020		 National
21  Public Lecture  
on A new  
multiculturalism  in Latin  
American 
Societies 		 Participation  KCHR, School of  
Environmental  
Science Kottayam		 14 
October 2019		 International
22  National Seminar  on Multiculturali  sm in Australia Participation  Centre for Australian  Studies 27 to 28 October  2016 National
23  National  
Seminar on  
Dalit 
Literature, Art and  Aesthetics: The  
Kerala Experience		 Participation  Institute of English,  University of Kerala 16 to 18 
March 2017		 National
24  National Seminar  on Diaspora re  
imagined: the  
Politics of Representation		 Participation  Centre for Cultural  Studies, Institute of  English, University of  Kerala 11- 13 
October 2017		 National
25  National Seminar  on Ruminations on  Calamities and  
Beyond		 Participation  PG Department of  
English, Girideepam  Institute of Advanced Learning		 8 February 
2019		 National
26  National Webinar  on Academic 
Quality 
Enhancement 
Through Outcome  based Education		 Participation  St Teresa’s College,  9 May 
2020		 National
27  National Webinar on Understanding  Cinema: 
Intersections in  
Indian Horror 
Films		 Participation  St Xavier’s College for  Women, Aluva 18 May 
2020		 National
28  National Webinar  on Subaltern  
Literature		 Participation  GVG Visalakshi  
College for Women,  Bharathiar University		 30 May 
2020		 National
29  Webinar on How to  be secured in 
Digital Era		 Participation  SRM Institute of  
Science and 
Technology		 5 may 
2020		 National
30  National Webinar  on Academic 
Quality 
Enhancement 
through outcome Based Education		 Participation  St Teresa’s College, Ernakulam 9 May 
2020		 National
31  National Webinar  on Being in  
Humanities: What  does it Entail?		 Participation  Department of  
English, St  
Paul’s 
College, Kalamassery		 28 May 
2020		 National
32  National Webinar  on Positive 
Communication  
Beyond Pandemic  Grief		 Participation  St Cyril’s College,  
Adoor		 30 May 
2020		 National
33  Regional Seminar  on Musings on  
Reading and  
Writing		 Participation  PG Department of  
English, Baselius  
College, Kottayam		 13 March 
2018		 Regional
34  National  
Seminar on Post Truth and  
Literature: New 
Perspectives in 
Postmodern 
Reading		 Participation  Department of  
English, Government  College, Kottayam		 30 January 
2019		 National
35  National Seminar  on The Public 
Intellectual		 Participation  Department of 
English, BCM  
College, Kottayam		 3 August 
2018		 National
36  International  
Seminar on  
Renewable Energy  Utilisation		 Participation  BCM College,  
Kottayam		 10 July 2018  International

Name of the Course  Place  Duration  
and Date		 Name & Details of  
Institution/MOOC
UGC Sponsored  Refresher  
Course in  
Women’s  
Studies		 HRDC,  
University of  
Kerala		 1.10.15 to  
21.10.15		 HRDC, University of Kerala
UGC Sponsored  Refresher  
Course in  
Women  
Studies and  
Women  
Empowerment  
85th Online  
short term  
course on E  
content  
development		 HRDC,  
University of  
Kerala  
Online 		 1.11.2019 to  
14.11.2019  
09.07.20 to  
15.07.20		 HRDC, University of Kerala  
UGC- HRDC, Gujarat University,  Ahmedabad
23rd Online  
Short term  
course on E  
content  
development		 Online  28.05.20 to  
03.06.20		 UGC- HRDC, Gujarat University,  Ahmedabad
One week STTP  on Teaching and  Learning  
Pedagogy		 Online  18 May  
2020 to 22  
May  
2020		 RSRI, Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu
Faculty  
Development  
programme in  
Humanities and  
Social  
Sciences(Cultur  
al Studies)		 Kannur University, Thavakkara,  
Kannur		 7 May 2019  
to 11 May  
2019		 Kannur University, Thavakkara,  Kannur
Short term  
Course on ICT  
Enabled  
Learning		 UGC HRDC and  Government Law  College,  
Trivandrum		 18 December to  24 December 
2019		 Government Law College,  
Trivandrum
One Week  
National  
Online FDP  
on ICT  
tools for  
Effective,  
Teaching  
Learning		 Swami Ramanand  Teerth Marathwada  
University ,  
Nanded,  
Maharashtra		 11 May to  
16 May  
2020		 Online
One week FDP  
Online  
Education in  
HEI’s		 Online  03.08.2020  
to 07.  
08.2020		 KSHEC, Trivandrum
One Week  
FDP on Open  
Source tools  
for Research		 Online  8.6.20 to  
14. 06.20		 MHRD, Government of India
One Week  
STTP on  
Advanced  
Research  
Methodology		 Online  11 May  
2020 to 15  
May  
2020		 RSRI, Krishnagiri, TamilNadu
One week FDP  
on Skills for  
next  
generation teachers		 Online  1.12.20 to  
7.12.20		 Guru Dev Angad TLC, 
University of Delhi and  
Vimala College, Trissur
One week FDP  
on Innovation  
and  
Entrepreneursh  
ip  
Development		 Online  15.04.21 to  
21.04.21		 STRIDE, UGC- MHRD and MG  University
Two weeks FDP  on Managing  
Online Classes  
and Co  
Creating MOOCS		 Online  18 May  
2020 to 3  
June 2020		 MHRD, Government of India

S.No Title  Title Funding  
Agency		 Venue  Date  Regional/  
National 
/International
1  One Day National  Workshop on Research  Design and Academic  Writing Methods- A  new 
Perspective		 Department of Economics,  BCM 
College, 
Kottayam in  collaboration  with Kerala Economic  
Association		 BCM College,  Kottayam 26 
February  
2019		 National
2  Training 
Programme on  
Centralized Allotment  Process for teachers		 Mahatma 
Gandhi  
University,  Kottayam		 Mahatma 
Gandhi  
University,  
Kottayam		 22 June 
2018		 Regional
3  Multidisciplin ary 
Annual  
Research Conference		 School of  
English and  Foreign  
Languages		 School of  
English and  
Foreign  
Languages		 16 
December  
2018		 National
4  South Asian 
Region Preconference  of G20 Interfaith  
Summit 2016		 The Centre 
for Interfaith  and Cultural Dialogue, 
Griffith 
University		 Griffith 
University,  
South East  
Queensland,  
Australia		 27 July 2016 International
5  National Conference on Peace and Harmony:  India and Canada UGC Area  Study Centre  for Canadian  Studies,  
University of  Kerala		 UGC and Shastri Indo- Canadian  Institute, New  Delhi 17-18 
February  
2017		 National
6  Short term workshop  on Research College  
Development  Council,		 College  
Development Council,		 20 January 
2020 to 24 
January		 Regional
7  One week Online  
national Workshop on  Creative Adaptation  Reaching out through  Digital Classrooms		 St Thomas  College,  
Pala in  
association  with UGC  
HRDC, 
University of  Kerala		 Online  19 to 25 
May 2020		 National
8  Three day Workshop  on Curriculum and  Syllabus Revision ,PG C.S.S English Mahatma 
Gandhi  
University,  Kottayam		 Mahatma Gandhi University,  
Kottayam		 29,30,31 
January 2018		 Regional

PAPERS HANDLED AS PER UNIVERSITY SYLLABUS

S.No  Semester Paper Code UG- Title  PG – Title
1 EN1CR01 Methodology of Humanities  Up Until Chaucer: Early  Literatures in English – 
Sem 1- EN010101
2 EN2CR02 Introducing Language and  
Literature		 Literatures of the English  Renaissance- Sem1- 
EN010102
3 ENCR04 Symphony of Verse  19th Century English  
Literatures- Sem 1- 
EN010104
4 ENCR03 Harmony of Prose  Modernity and  
Modernisms Sem  
II-EN010201
5 EN4CR06 Language and Linguistics  Reading India- Sem 3- 
EN010301
6 EN4CR05 Modes of Fiction  Body, Text and  
Performance Sem3- 
EN010303
7 EN3CR05 Indian Writing in English  Cultural Studies- Sem 4- EN010401
8 EN6CR11 Women Writing  Postcolonial Poetry  
Sem4- EN010402
9 EN6CB04 Regional Literatures in Translation
10 EN5CR08 Literary Criticism and Theory
11 EN6CR10 Postcolonial Literatures

  1. Completed SWAYAM ARPIT Online Course on Gender/Women Studies conducted by Jamia Islamia University, Delhi on 16.2. 2020
  2. Communication in the 21st century Working place, University of California
  3. Understanding Memory, Wesleyan University
  4. Feminism and Social Justice, University of California
  5. Queering Identities, University of Colarado
  6. Women in environment biology, University of Barcelona