Dr. David Paul S

@chennai.vit.ac.in

Assistant Professor of English
Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai

Dr. David Paul S


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EDUCATION

Ph.D. English
Vellore Institute of
Technology (VIT), Chennai.
2025
CGPA/Percentage : 9.29

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Arts and Humanities, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory, Religious studies
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Scopus Publications

6

Scholar Citations

2

Scholar h-index

Scopus Publications

  • Schizoanalytic pedagogical framework: A rhizomatic approach to teaching languages
    Daisy Gohain, David Paul
    Methodsx, 2025
    The Schizoanalytic Pedagogical Framework (SPF) is one of the revolutionary reconceptualizations of language pedagogy based on the poststructuralist, anti-Oedipal thought of Deleuze and Guattari. The present paper empirically substantiates SPF using its demonstration in multilingual English classrooms across both quantitative and qualitative outcomes. The rhizomatic structure of the framework dismantles central authority, values affective intensity, and enables students to collectively create meaning through four processes: Break, Map, Connect, and Create. These stages foster the dismantling of dominant linguistic regimes, enabling learners to craft individualized, interdisciplinary assemblages of meaning. Through affect-mediated, creative engagements, learners are positioned as desiring-subjects rather than passive recipients, rendering the pedagogical space a site of expressive experimentation rather than disciplinary normalization. The framework supports learner-focused, affectively charged encounters with language, privileging expression, multiplicity, and relationality. Empirical applications within English language classrooms reveal marked improvements in learner motivation, cultural resonance, and communicative competency. Being an adaptive and generative model, SPF repositions language learning back into an ecosophic and minoritarian pedagogy where language learning occurs not as a codified system to be mastered but as a lived aesthetic practice of collective sense-making and transversal becoming. • Advances an affect-mediated, learner-centric paradigm in language acquisition. • Incorporates rhizomatic and schizoanalytic theoretical models to inform language instruction practices. • Endorses the generation of dynamic, adaptable, and creatively situated learning outputs.
  • Decoding posthuman realities in the post-apocalyptic context: a schizoanalytic study of human and robot in Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built
    David Paul, G. Alan
    AI and Society, 2025
  • The Global Catastrophic Impact of 9/11 Attack: Analyzing the Mental Condition in the Postmodern Novels and Media in the Post-Apocalyptic Context
    David Paul, G. Alan
    Studies in Media and Communication, 2023
    Post-Apocalyptic novels unveil the disasters that traumatize the psyche of the people. Apparently, such a catastrophe has an excruciating impact. This paper analyses the impact of the World Trade Centre (9/11) attack on American postmodern characters, it’s representation through Media and as a result, the reverberating references in Indian novels as well. Don DeLillo’s novel Falling Man presents the dreadful effects of the 9/11 attacks through the complex life of the Postmodern characters. The title, “Falling Man” is identical to the name given to a photograph released on The New York Times, “The Falling Man” taken by Drew, Associated Press. It is the media’s representation of the 9/11 American fall. Along with the postmodern tenets, themes, and techniques, the paper probes into the mental condition of the postmodern characters in the Post-Apocalyptic context. Horney's psychoanalytic social theory is an effective tool for comprehending how catastrophic events influence people psychologically as well as how they interact and behave. The impact of the catastrophe is traced in the American novel, in the Media’s photograph and in the Indian Novel.
  • Problematizing the Postmodern Condition in Em and the Big Hoom
    David Paul, G Alan
    Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2022
    This paper investigates and problematizes the postmodern condition in Jerry Pinto's novel, Em and the Big Hoom. The complex, medical, psychoanalytic, and psychiatric history of the characters’ psyche is traced out in the novel. Postmodernism is an outgrowth of Modernism. It denotes the status of contemporary society, the revolutions, modifications, and shifts in science, literature, and arts. Taking into account all of the significant shifts from Modernism to Postmodernism, the study explicates Postmodernism as a movement, the Postmodern era along with the postmodern condition, and the postmodern tenets. The Psyche of the postmodern characters as presented by the author in his psychological fiction is profoundly probed in the paper. There is an intense focus on how important tenets like fragmentation, non-linearity, intertextuality, and playfulness are inherent in the novel.
  • A Comparative Analysis Of Violence In Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party: An Awareness Towards Peace
    David Paul, G Alan
    Ecs Transactions, 2022
    Literature is a powerful medium to comprehend the factors affecting the Sustainable Developmental Goals framed by the United Nations. This Paper examines violence in modern literature especially in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party. The violence in the plays demonstrates the effect of the World Wars during which there has been a drastic change in people’s psyche. The two consecutive World Wars had contributed to the extreme form of violence. Through the modernist approach to the plays, the forms of violence are traced out. Verbal, physical, and psychological violence are explored in the plays. Violence is undetachable from these plays to an extent that the playwrights have incorporated humor as a powerful tool to hide its impact. The atmosphere, language, tone, tools, and attitude are loaded with violence. The violence addressed in the plays illustrates how peace is destroyed. The paper elaborates on the reason behind a comparative analysis of these literary works, the violence portrayed in the plays reflecting the psyche of a modern human being in a Post-World War II scenario, and it helps in creating awareness on violence prevailing in the society and the necessity for peace.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Schizoanalytic Pedagogical Framework: A Rhizomatic Approach to Teaching Languages
    D Gohain, D Paul
    MethodsX, 103484 , 2025
    2025.0
  • Decoding posthuman realities in the post-apocalyptic context: a schizoanalytic study of human and robot in Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built
    D Paul, G Alan
    AI & SOCIETY 40 (4), 2851-2858 , 2025
    2025.0
  • Education, teaching, and learning: discourses, cultures, conversations: edited by Azra Razzack, Padma M. Sarangapani and Manish Jain, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2023, 400 pp …
    D Paul, G Alan
    Contemporary South Asia 32 (3), 455-457 , 2024
    2024.0
  • A Postmodern Psychoanalytic Critique of Narrative Disruptions and Subversions in Dalit and Post-apocalyptic Narratives: A Comparative Study
    D Paul, G Alan
    Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 2455328X231200313 , 2023
    2023.0
    Citations: 1
  • Diary of the Fall
    D Paul, G Alan
    DEMENTIA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 22 (6), 1314-1316 , 2023
    2023.0
  • The Global Catastrophic Impact of 9/11 Attack: Analyzing the Mental Condition in the Postmodern Novels and Media in the Post-Apocalyptic Context
    D Paul, G Alan
    Studies in Media and Communication 11 (1), 136-142 , 2023
    2023.0
  • Problematizing the Postmodern Condition in Em and the Big Hoom.
    D Paul, G Alan
    Theory & Practice in Language Studies (TPLS) 12 (6) , 2022
    2022.0
    Citations: 3
  • A Comparative Analysis of Violence in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party: An Awareness Towards Peace
    D Paul, G Alan
    ECS Transactions 107 (1), 9183 , 2022
    2022.0
    Citations: 2
  • NEUROTIC PERSONALITIES, UNCONSCIOUS CONFLICTS, AND REPRESSED EMOTIONS: A POSITIVE PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY OF THE POST-APOCALYPTIC CONDITION IN CORMAC MCCARTHY’S THE ROAD
    D Paul, G Alan
  • Literary Cognizance
    D Paul, G Alan
  • Rethinking Modernism: A Critical Evaluation of Modern Psyche with reference to Beckettian Journey in the Novel Watt
    D Paul, G Alan

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Problematizing the Postmodern Condition in Em and the Big Hoom.
    D Paul, G Alan
    Theory & Practice in Language Studies (TPLS) 12 (6) , 2022
    2022.0
    Citations: 3
  • A Comparative Analysis of Violence in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party: An Awareness Towards Peace
    D Paul, G Alan
    ECS Transactions 107 (1), 9183 , 2022
    2022.0
    Citations: 2
  • A Postmodern Psychoanalytic Critique of Narrative Disruptions and Subversions in Dalit and Post-apocalyptic Narratives: A Comparative Study
    D Paul, G Alan
    Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 2455328X231200313 , 2023
    2023.0
    Citations: 1
  • Schizoanalytic Pedagogical Framework: A Rhizomatic Approach to Teaching Languages
    D Gohain, D Paul
    MethodsX, 103484 , 2025
    2025.0
  • Decoding posthuman realities in the post-apocalyptic context: a schizoanalytic study of human and robot in Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built
    D Paul, G Alan
    AI & SOCIETY 40 (4), 2851-2858 , 2025
    2025.0
  • Education, teaching, and learning: discourses, cultures, conversations: edited by Azra Razzack, Padma M. Sarangapani and Manish Jain, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2023, 400 pp …
    D Paul, G Alan
    Contemporary South Asia 32 (3), 455-457 , 2024
    2024.0
  • Diary of the Fall
    D Paul, G Alan
    DEMENTIA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 22 (6), 1314-1316 , 2023
    2023.0
  • The Global Catastrophic Impact of 9/11 Attack: Analyzing the Mental Condition in the Postmodern Novels and Media in the Post-Apocalyptic Context
    D Paul, G Alan
    Studies in Media and Communication 11 (1), 136-142 , 2023
    2023.0
  • NEUROTIC PERSONALITIES, UNCONSCIOUS CONFLICTS, AND REPRESSED EMOTIONS: A POSITIVE PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY OF THE POST-APOCALYPTIC CONDITION IN CORMAC MCCARTHY’S THE ROAD
    D Paul, G Alan
  • Literary Cognizance
    D Paul, G Alan
  • Rethinking Modernism: A Critical Evaluation of Modern Psyche with reference to Beckettian Journey in the Novel Watt
    D Paul, G Alan

Publications

Paul, David. “Fragmentation and Hybridity in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children”
International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities. Vol.7, ,
2019.
2. Paul, David. “Personality of Woman beyond Religion in Rabindranath Tagore’s A Story
of a Muslim woman” In Voices from the Margins: A Diverse understanding of Margins
and Marginality. (Book Chapter)
3. Paul, David, and G Alan. “Rethinking Modernism: A Critical Evaluation of Modern
Psyche with reference to Beckettian Journey in the Novel Interdisciplinary
Research in Science, engineering & system management, Special Issue of International
journal of mechanical engineering (Multidisciplinary), edited by Uttam Roy, vol. 7, no.
1, 2022, pp. 114-117.
4. Paul, David, and G. Alan. "A Comparative Analysis of Violence in Samuel Beckett’s
Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party: An Awareness Towards
ECS Transactions, vol. 107, no. 1, 2022, pp. 9183-9188. (Scopus Indexed)
5. Paul, David, and G Alan. “Problematizing the Postmodern Condition in Em and the big
Theory and Practice in Language Studies, vol. 12, no. 6, 2022, pp. 1799-2591.
(Scopus Indexed)
6. Paul, David. & G Alan. “A Review on Apocalyptic themes embedded in Postmodern
writings”, Literary Cognizance. [I.F: 5.143]
7. Paul, David, and G. Alan. "The Global Catastrophic Impact of 9/11 Attack: Analyzing
the Mental Condition in the Postmodern Novels and Media in the Post-Apocalyptic
Studies i