Dr. Blessy John

I started my teaching career as Higher Secondary School Teacher in the Higher Secondary Directorate, Government of Kerala in 2005. I have been serving as Assistant Professor (English) in St. Stephen’s College, Pathanapuram since 2010. I received Ph.D. Degree in 2021 from the University of Madras after pursuing research at the Department of English, University of Madras on the topic “Cultural Mediations of Experiencing the Sacred: Literary and Visual Representations”

EDUCATION

M.A, B.Ed. University of Kerala
Ph. D. University of Madras

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Eco criticism

Publications

Journals

1. Writing Back to the Centre: Treatment of Adivasi life in Narayan’s Kocharethi (The Araya Woman) July 2018 (P 79-85), IJELLH (International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities) -UGC approved journal list Serial . SJIF Impact Factor: 5.7 ISSN: 2321-7065

2. Misrepresentations Label a Marginalised Community: An Interview with Narayan (P 45-54), July 2018, PILC Journal of Dravidic Studies (PJDS), a bi-annual on-line research journal, is published in English in January and July by the Puducherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture (PILC). UGC approved journal list Serial . ISSN 0971 – 0957

3. The Significance of Trans- nationalism in a Globalised Milieu: An Overview (P 55 – 59), New Frontiers in Education, International Journal of Education and Research. , No.1, January – March 2019. ISSN: 0972 – 1231


Books
1. “Paradigms of Deprivation and Marginalization: Treatment of Adivasi life in Narayan’s Kocharethi (The Araya Woman)” (P 147-150), Moving the Centre: Black and Dalit Literatures, Edt. Dr. P.Usha, ISBN 978-93-81423-31-8, Post Graduate and Research Department of English, T.K.M. College of Arts and Science & Poornna Printing and Publishing House, March 2016
2. “Gender Identity as a Site of the Sacred in Post-Colonial Tribal Writing”. Edit. Maria Preethi Srinivasan. Multiculturalism and the Social Fabric in Australia, America & India. ISBN: 978-81-7966-4964. Chennai, 2018. Print. (P 305 – 311)