Areas of Interest:
Environmental Humanities
Indian Indigenous Ecocriticism
Aesthetics and Environmental Art
Environmental Digital Humanities
Ecocinema
Ph.D. Supervision (within BITS)
1. Mr. Solano Da Silva (Ph.D. Completed in 2018) (Co-supervisor; Title: The Dynamics of Land-Use Planning: A Case Study)
2. Ms. Nithya K. Gopi (ongoing; joined in 2018) (Title: An Ecophobia Analysis of the Narratives of Ecological Justice Movements in Kerala)
3. Ms. Navaneetha Suresh (ongoing; joined in 2019) (Topic: Game Studies and Ecology)
4. Ms. Anupama Madhusoodan (ongoing; joined in 2021) (Topic: The Culture of Hip-hop in Kerala)
Ph.D. Thesis Evaluated (Outside BITS):
*M. Devi’s dissertation entitled “The Confrontation and Conglomeration of Malevolent Man and Benevolent Nature: An Ecocritical Study of Margaret Atwood’s Select Novels” (2016) from Department of English, Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu State.
*Aswathy Balachandran’s dissertation entitled “Ecological Sensibility in A. K. Ramanujan’s Poetry” (2017) from Department of English, Mar Athanasius College, M.G. University, Kerala State.
*Esme Robina R.’s dissertation titled “Disintegrating the Arena of Power: A Study of the Future Milieus in the Select Dystopian Novels” (2020) from Madras Christian College, Affiliated to the University of Madras
Articles Reviewed for Journals/Book Chapters:
* Article for the volume titled Viruses and Weeds: Ecopoetics After Postmodernism edited by Prof.Cordula Lemke and Prof. Jennifer Wawrzinek published by Trier: WVT, Germany (2013)
* Essays for the following journals CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture published by Purdue University Press (2014), ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment published by Oxford University Press (2015; 2016; 2017, 2019) Folklore published by Taylor and Francis (2016), Green Letters - Studies in Ecocriticism published by Routledge, UK. (2018, 2019), South Asian Review published by Taylor and Francis (Routledge) (2019), Journal of Public Affairs, published by Wiley (2019), Studies in Documentary Film published by Routledge (2019), Neohelicon published by Springer (2020)
Editorial Board/Board of Reviewers/Membership in Academic Bodies:
*2017 Member of the Board of Reviewers of the Journal of Creative Communications (Sage publishing in association with MICA - The School of Ideas, Shela,
Ahmedabad, India)
*2017 Member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Indic Studies
published by the American Academy of Indic Studies, USA.
*2019 Member of the Review Board of the International Journal of Fear Studies
(University of Calgary Publication, Canada)
* 2017 Member of Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), USA
* 2018 Member of Association for Indic Studies, USA
* 2005 Member and General Secretary of tiNai, formerly called Organisation for Studies in Literature and Environment-India (OSLE-India) (an affiliate of (ASLE US)