Dr. Balu Vijayaraghavan

Dr. A. Balu Vijayaraghavan, M.A., Ph.D

Address:  

Dept. of English, Sree Krishna College Guruvayur, Thrissur, PIN – 680102, KERALA

Email : balu.vijayaraghavan@gmail.com

Education

• Ph.D (Indian & World Literatures): English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad (2018)
• M.A. (English Literature): English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad (2014)

Research interests

• Literary Theory & Criticism, Indian and World Literatures, Cultural Studies

Positions Held

• Assistant Professor: Dept. of English, Sree Krishna College Guruvayur (2019 – Present)
• Assistant Professor: Dept. of English, Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, Kollam (2018-2019)
• Assistant Professor: Dept. of English, Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru (2017-18)

Publications

1. “Writing Lives, Writing Resistance: Re-reading A. Revathi’s The Truth About Me”
   Journal: Juni Khyat, Vol.10, Issue 7 No.1, July 2020, ISSN: 2278-4632
2. “Relocating Mahabharata as Myth and History in the Contemporary Indian Context”
   Journal: Journal of Literature & Aesthetics, Vol.19, No.1, Jan-June 2019, ISSN: 2278-523X
3. “Feudalism to Modernity: Home as a portrait of transition in M.T. Vasudevan Nair’s Naalukettu”
   Journal: Malayalam Research Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 2, May-August 2019, ISSN: 0974-1984
4. “Shakespeare at Home: Decoding Home as a ‘Phenomenon of Perception’ in Shakespeare’s Major Tragedies”
   Journal: LITTCRIT: An Indian Response to Literature, Vol. 43, No. 1, June 2017,
   ISSN: 0970-8049
5. “Childhood, Memory, Women, Self & Journeying: Home as a Multi-layered Icon in Tagore’s Homecoming”

Journal: Gnosis, Vol.2, No.4 (July 2016)
ISSN: 2394-0131
Impact factor: 4.147

6. “Problematising Home: A critique of the metaphor of home in Tagore’s Home and The World”

Journal: Albertian Review of Literature, Vol.2, No.1 (December 2015)

ISSN: 2394-3009

7. “Chithra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions: A Feminist Reading of The Mahabharata”

Journal: Literary Miscellany, Vol.4, No.1-2 (January-December 2015)

ISSN: 2230-7451

8. “Othello: A Postcolonial-Feminist Reading”

Journal: LangLit, Vol.1, Issue 4 (May 2015)

ISSN: 2349-5189

9. “Portraying Home as a Socio-Political Metaphor in Novels”

Journal: Pursuits, Vol.12 (October-November 2014)
ISSN: 0974-7400

10. “Reinventing the Mahabharata: A contemporary reading of Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel”

Journal: Research Scholar Vol IV Issue 3 (September 2014)

ISSN: 2249-6696

11. “Interrogating Moral Cosmopolitanism: A Critique of Ian McEwan’s Black Dogs”

Journal: Literary QuestVol.1 Issue 3 (August 2014)
ISSN: 2349-5650

12. “Re-thinking the Title of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby”

Journal: Research Lines
ISSN: 0975-8941

13. “Self-Portrait of an Artist as a Jesting Prophet: Autobiographical Fiction of Basheer”

Journal: Pursuits Vol.XI (September 2013)
ISSN: 0974-7400

14. “Exploring ‘Home’ as Postcolonial Icon in Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas”

Name of the book: Identity, Diaspora and Literature
Editors: Nitesh Narnolia&Mousam
Publisher: Authorspress
Year: 2018
ISBN: 978-93-87281-65-3

15. “Home as an Ideological Icon in Novels” (Thesis publication)
    Publisher: Authorspress, New Delhi
    Month & Year: January 2020
    ISBN: 978-93-89824-74-2

Seminar / Conference Proceedings

1. “Universality vs. Multiversality: Decoding Vivekananda’s Vision of Oneness vis-a-vis Literature in the Present Context”

Name of the book: VOICES
Editors: Prabhavati Y, M. Lalitha Sridevi & K. Subhash
Publisher: Gitam University Press
Year: 2017
ISBN: 978-81-933148-2-1

2. “Probing Literariness in Contemporary Indian Youth E-fiction” (Seminar Publication)

Name of the book: English Literature in the Digital Era

Editor: LakhimaiMili
Publisher: Bonfring

Year: 2016

ISBN: 978-93-65477-79-9