Name

Dr. Silpa Anand S

Address:

Assistant Professor, Department Of English

Little Flower College, Guruvayoor

Contact Nos:

9846014601

Email:

silpa@littleflowercollege.edu.in

Profile

Silpa Anand has been working as Assitant Professor in the department of english since 2012.She completed her MA and M.Phil from the university of Kerala.Her topic of research were Feminism and Psychology.Her Mphil Dessertation was entitled "Crime and detection :A study of select works of Agatha Christie".

She got her PhD in English from the University of Calicut in 2023 and her area of research is climate change and humanities. 

Educatinal Qualification

MA in English and M.Phil from the university of Kerala.

PhD in English form the University of Calicut in the topic  " Auguries of Apocalypse: Treatment of Climate Chnage in the Novels of Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver and Lorin R Robinson."

Work Experience

 Assitant Professor at Little Flower College Guruvayoor from 2012 onwards.

positions held at Little Flower College, Guruvayoor.

Sl No	Position Held	College/University/State/National/International	Year
1	College Union Convenor	College	2016-17
2	Member, IQAC	College	2017- present
3	IQAC Coordinator	College	2020-2022

Area of Interest

Translatiopn Studies

Ecocriticism

Climate Change Literature

Culture Studies

Environmental Humanities

Research Projects

Minor Research Project: Confronting Cultural Erasure: Reinstating the Lost into the Psyche of Kerala- 2013-2015- completed.

Research on the topic “Auguries of Apocalypse: Treatment of Climate Change in the Novels of Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver and Lorin R R obinson.”

Paper Presented

Sl.No	Title	Author and Co-author	Date of presentation	Venue of presentation
1	“Psychology of Criminality and Detection in Agatha Christie.”		9th December, 2011.	UGC Sponsored  National Seminar “Literature and Psychology” held by Dept. of English , Baselius College, Kottayam
2	“The Trauma of Loss :Lost  Childhood as Depicted in Vladimir Nabokov’s  Lolitha .”		13nd June  2014	International Seminar “ BonaSalus.” Held by Dept of English, LF College, Guruvayoor
3	“Violated Childhood Depicted Onscreen: An Analysis of Deepa  Mehta’s Water and  Blessy’s Kaazcha.”		22ndJuly 2014	UGC Sponsored National Seminar “Literature and Child Rights Issues: Socio Historical Perspective.” Held by Dept of History, LF College, Guruvayoor
4	“Confronting Cultural Erasure: Tracing the Lost in the Traditional Art forms of Kerala.”		17th December 2014	UGC Sponsored National Seminar “Discourses and Cultural Studies”, organised by P G Department of English, NSS College, Manjeri.
5	The Significance of Sacred Groves in Sustaining the Ecology.		17 September 2015	UGC Sponsored National Seminar” Ecological Undertones in Literature and Popular Culture.” Held by Dept of English, Little Flower College, Guruvayoor.
6	Representation of Oppressed Femininity in IsmatChugdai’s works		24th&25th November 2015	UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “ Signature Retrospection of the Oppressed Femininity in Literature and Celluloid.” Held by Departments of Malayalam and Sanskrit , Little Flower College, Guruvayoor
7	The Chromatic Expressions of Climate Change: Representations in Literature and Art.		13th and 14th December 2017	National Seminar and 3rd International Film Fest “ Colour” held by the Departments of English and Functional English, Little Flower College, Guruvayur.
8	On Narrating Climate Change: The Transnational Turn of Ecocriticism as Seen in Lorin R Robinson’s Warming		18th March 2018	National Conference “Changing Paradigms of Environmental Protection in India.” At Prof. HariharNathTripathi  Foundation, Banares Hindu University, Varanasi.
9	Challenges Depicting Climate Change in Fiction: An Analysis of Lorin R Robinson`s Warming		7th September 2018	Two Day National Seminar “Environmental Humanities: Climate Change, Ecological Justice and Rights in Literature.” PTM Govt. College, Perinthalmanna, Kerala.
10	Ice, Polar Bears and Butterflies: Iconic Objects and Images in Climate Change Imagination.		15th-17th December 2018	AmrithaViswaVidyapeedam, Amrithapuri, Kollam, Kerala. India
11	Prescient Imagination: A Re Reading of Atwood's Maddadam Trilogy in the wake of Covid 19 Pandemic		9/08/2020	Two Days National Webinar"Science Fiction in the Age of Crisis" organised by IQAC, Damdama College Assam on 8th and 9th August 2020
12	Reading Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy on the wake of Climate Crisis and the Significance of Speculative Narratives		24/02/2022	Chrysalis: A Commemorative Lecture Series organised by the Research and Post Graduate Department of English, St Aloysius College, Elthuruth, Thrissur
13	The Gender Side of Climate Change: An Analysis of Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy		8/03/2023	One Day National Seinar "Women: THe Humane, Human and the Post Human" organised by Dept. of English. Little Flower College, Guruvayoor
14	Storytelling and and Communicating Climate Change:Runinating of Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse		10th January 2024	International Conference on Climate Change and Cultural Representations at Burdwan University, West Bengal.

Paper Published

Sl.No	Title	Journal/Book	Author and Co-author	Publication Agency	Year of Publication	ISSN NO
1	“Echoing the Bard: Shakespearean Allusions in Animated Narratives.”	Singularities : A Trans disciplinary Bi annual Research Journal		Singularities	2014	ISSN 2348-3369 Vol 1 Issue 2 August 2014 Pg Nos : 85-87
2	Portent Narratives Onscreen:  Humanity Losing to Technology as seen in Spike Jones’ Her	Literary Herald: An International Refereed English e Journal		Literary Herald	2016	ISSN 2454-3365 Vol 2 Issue 3Dec 2016 Pg No: 398-405
3	“Butterflies and Climate Change: Depiction of Environmental Meltdown in Literature as seen in Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior.”	Flutters. (Book)		Sooryagadha Publishers	2017	ISBN: 9788172550882
4	The Chromatic Expressions of Climate Change: Representations in Literature and Art.	Matiz: A Flotilla of Colours (Book)		Sooryagadha Publishers	2017	ISBN:9788172550899 Pg:65
5	“Anthropocentrism to Apocalypse: Depiction of Climate Change in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”.	WJGL:World Journal of Gender and Literature.(Journal)		BiRefeered Bi Annual Journal of Gender and Literature.	DEC 2017	Vol 4, No: 2, Dec 2017. ISSN: 2349-1620
6	Climate Change and the Future Refugee Scenario.	Lives Unmapped: Representations of the Refugee (Book)		Sooryagadha Publishers	2018	ISBN: 9788172551063 Pg:4-8
7	Climate Change in Fiction: An Analysis of Lorin R Robinson’s Warming	Erudition: A Research Compendium(Interdisciplinary &Multilingual)		Narthitha Publications, Thiruvananthapuram	2019	ISBN: 9788193864647
8	Icebergs, Polarbears and Butterflies: A Study of Climate Change Imagery in Imagination	IJELLH, Vol 11, Issue 4, April 2023	Author	Smart Moves	2023	ISSN:2582-3574

 

CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Sl.No	Title	Particulars	ISBN NO
1	Focus	Poem: Published in the Anthology of poemsWingword 2018.
2	In This Place	Poem: Published in the Anthology of poems Riding on the Summer Train	9788194478591

Book Published

Sl.No	Title	Author and Co-author	Publication Agency	Year of Publication	ISBN NO
1	American and Post-Colonial Literature: An Anthology		Mainspring Publishers	2015	9788193000113
2	The Poet’s Eye		Mainspring Publishers	2015	9788193003503
3	Curtain Raisers: An Anthology of Short Plays		Mainspring Publishers	2015	9788193003534
4	Ecology and Cultural Semantics		Sooryagadha Publishers	2016
5	Matiz: Flotilla of Colours		Sooryagadha Publishers	2017	ISBN:9788172550899
6	Traversing Gender Identity		Sooryagadha Publishers	2018	9788172550974
7	Lives Unmapped: Representations of the Refugee		Sooryagadha Publishers	2019	ISBN: 9788172551063
8	Erudition:A Research Compedium		Narthitha Publications,	2019	9788193864647
9	On Air: The First Book on Gulf Malayalam Radio	Translator	Authors press	2021	9789391314927

Orientation/References/shortterm courses Attended

Sl No	Training Attended	Agency/Sponsors	Venue	Period
1.	Orientation Course	UGC	UGC ASC, Calicut University	24-02-2016 to 22-3-2016
2	Refresher Course	UGC	UGC ASC, Calicut University	08-03-2019 TO 28-03-2019
3	Online FDP  “Managing Online Classes and Co Creating MOOC’S 2.0”	Ministry of Human Resource Development, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching.	Online Platform	18-05-2020 to 3-06-2020
4.	Refresher Course on “Science and Technology of Yoga and Meditation”	UGC	HRDC, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar	24-08-2020 to 06-9-2020
5.	Online Workshop on Video Content Creation	-	Marian College, Kuttikkanam

Training Attended

Sl. No	Title of the Course	Conducted Agency	Period of the Course
1	International Climate Change Short Course 2018-19, nested under COP+24 Programme and part of UNITES 2018 initiatives	Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, Raman Science Centre and National Council of Science Museums. The course was undertaken in connection with the COP +24 United Nations Climate Change Conference, held at Katowice in 2018.	2018-19
2	Online certificate course “Climate Change and Gender” offered by UNCCC.	UNFCC	Self Timed Course, Completed in  May 2020

Seminar/Workshops/Conferences Attended

Sl No	Title of the Seminar	Venue of the Seminar	Date
1	Workshop on Research Methodology in Literature in English.	Mar Ivanious College, Trivandrum	20th November 2009
2	Seminar on Current Developments in English Language Teaching.”	The Institute of English, Trivandrum	6th February 2010
3	National Seminar on “Post Modern Ethical Criticism in the West and East with Special Reference to Emmanuel Levinas and M K Gandhi”	St. Thomas College, Kottayam	28th to 30th March 2012.
4	National Seminar on “ Post-Colonial Literatures and Theory: Issues and Concerns”	Government  College, Kottayam	8th September 2012
5	UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Writing, Censorship & Democracy”	Department of English, University of Calicut	9th December 2015
6	Treading the Vedic Terrains : An Introspection. Held by the departments of English and Functional English	Little Flower College, Guruvayoor	27th July 2016
7	International Workshop on Poetry Writing	Little Flower College, Guruvayoor	June 2016
8	Ten Day Workshop on the Preparation of Study Materials of English Text for Sastri(BA) First Year	Rashtriya Sanskrit Sanstan, Thrissur	23rd January to 1st February 2016
9	Fifteen Day Workshop on the Preparation of  Study Materials of English Text for Sastri (BA) Third Year (Non Residential)	Rashtriya Sanskrit Sanstan, Thrissur	12th August to 26th August 2016
10	Awareness Programme on Anti Plagiarism Software(URKUND) and Research Report Writing. Organized by the Department of Library and Kerala College Librarians’ Association.	St. Alosiyus College, Elthuruth, Thrissur	26th August 2016
11	FIFA FB World Cup “Roll the Ball” Road Show organized by Nehru Yuva Kendra, Thrissur and District Administration, Thrissur.	Thrissur Round	26th September 2017
12	National Congress on Human Rights: Distinct Voices in Resistance and Survival	St. Joseph’s College, Irinjalakkuda	22nd November 2017
13	“On and Of Theory”	Little Flower College, Guruvayoor
14	National Seminar on Transforming the Higher Education Institutions Into Potential Hubs of Excellence	Little Flower College, Guruvayoor	25th June 2018
14	Regional Seminar for Faculty on Intellectual Property Rights	Little Flower College, Guruvayoor	24th January 2019
15	National Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights	Little Flower College, Guruvayoor	24th January 2019
15	State Level Seminar in Connection with World Wetlands Day Celebrations 2019	Little Flower College, Guruvayoor	6th February 2019
16	Manifeste, One Day National Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights.	Little Flower College, Guruvayoor	24th January 2019
17	State Level Seminar on Digital Learning and Production: Massive Open Online Courses	Little Flower College, Guruvayoor	28th January 2019
18	National Seminar on Empowering Women Through Gender Sensitization: Prospects and Challenges	Little Flower College, Guruvayoor	1st October 2019
19	National Seminar on Academic Facilitator and Learner Participation	Little Flower College, Guruvayoor	19th October 2019
20	National Level Workshop on NIRF India Ranking	IQAC, Marian College, Kuttikkanam	21st November 2019
21	“Classrooms to Online Platforms: Dealing With Transitions in Teaching Learning Methods”	Little Flower College, Guruvayoor
22	Webinar on Outcome based Education	St. Thomas College Thrissur and Kerala State Higher Education Council	13th May 2020
23	International Webinar “ Post Pandemic Language, Literature and Culture: A Prospective Culture”	PG department of English and IQAC Payyannur College, Payyanur in association with Kerala State Higher Education Council and Faculty of Language Studies, Sohar University, Oman	25th and 26th May 2020
24	“IPR and Patent Drafting”- Webinar	St. Peter’s Institution of Higher Education and Research on	14th May 2020.