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Dr. Shobana K.

Assistant Professor, Department of English, School of Engineering, Coimbatore

Qualification: MA, MPhil
k_shobana@cb.amrita.edu
Research Interest: Children's Literature, Folk Literature

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Bio

Dr. Shobana K. joined Amrita Vishwa Vidhyapeetham in 2010. She has completed her M. A. from Holy Cross College, Trichy, and M. Phil. from St. Joseph College, Trichy. She has a total of 13 years of teaching experience, teaching language and literature to students of different streams at UG and PG levels. She has also done on-line teaching of English to Japanese and Korean students. She conducts motivation and guidance programs for school teachers. She has served as a resource person on English Language Training for the Tamil Nadu Police Personnel. She has also done some parenting training programs for parents of school children. Her areas of specialization and interest are Indian Writing in English and Children’s Literature. She is currently pursuing her PhD on Children’s Literature at Bharathiar University. She is also interested in classical and modern Tamil Literature.

Conference/ Seminars Participated

  • Attended Intersections: International Conference on Children’s Literature conducted by the Post Graduate & Research Department of English, St. Thomas College (Autonomous), Thrissur on 19th & 20th October 2015.
  • Attended a National Level Workshop on Research Methodology and Literary Criticism. Conducted by the Dept. Of English, Kongunadu Arts and Science College (Autonomous), Coimbatore on 7th Feb, 2015.

 

Publications

Journal Article

Year : 2019

Scripting the Lives of Grandchildren: Direct and Indirect Contributions of Grandparents to Adolescent Development in Subadhra Sen Gupta’s The Secret Diary of the World’s Worst Cook

Publisher : Literary Findings

Year : 2019

Risk And Resilience: Adolescent Poverty And Agencies Of Change In Swati Sengupta’s Half The Field Is Mine

Cite this Research Publication : Shobana K. and Ramaswamy, D. S., “Risk And Resilience: Adolescent Poverty And Agencies Of Change In Swati Sengupta’s Half The Field Is Mine”, Intenational Journal of English Language and Literature, vol. Volume: 7 & Issue: 25 PP: 73-80 , 2019.

Publisher : Intenational Journal of English Language and Literature

Conference Paper

Year : 2015

Inheritance of restricted mindscapes – a Neocolonial Reading of Anita Desai’s Winterscape

Publisher : National conference on Exile Literature

Year : 2015

Can Anyone Hear the New Child? A study of Paro Anaud’s “No Guns at My Son’s Funeral

Publisher : Trends and Themes in Contemporary Indian Novel in English. Department of English Studies, Central University of Tamil, Thiruvarur

Book Chapter

Year : 2016

Can Anyone Hear the New Child? A study of Paro Anand’s No Guns at My Son’s Funeral

Cite this Research Publication : Shobana K., “Can Anyone Hear the New Child? A study of Paro Anand’s No Guns at My Son’s Funeral”, in Indian Novel in English, Jaipur: Indian Novel in English, 2016.

Publisher : Indian Novel in English, Jaipur: Indian Novel in English

Year : 2015

Inheritance of restricted mindscapes: a Neocolonial Reading of Anita Desai’s Winterscape

Publisher : The Contours of Women Diaspora

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