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Dr. Rayson K. Alex

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Awards Received / Positions held / Achievements made

2023 - present: Department-Level Shortlisting Committee for Faculty Selection

2024 - 2026: Department Research Committee Convener 

2022 - 2023: Awarded Fulbright-Nehru Academic & Professional Excellence Award (Research & Teaching) to teach and research at Western Washington University, USA.

2021: Nucleus member of Teaching Learning Centre, BITS Pilani, Goa

2019: Visiting Faculty at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Goa. The courses taught are “Understanding Films” and “Environmental Literature” (Semester 1)

2019: Faculty Coordinator of the Website of The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus

2016 to 2017: Faculty Coordinator of the Film Club, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus

2016 to present: Faculty Coordinator of the Environment Protection and Awareness Club, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus

2016 to present: Nucleus Member of the Community Welfare Department, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus

2017 to 2022: Nucleus Member of the Media and Publication Department, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus

2017 to 2023: Member of the Editorial Board of BITScan, a semester magazine published by BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus

2016 to 2021: Member of the Exhibition Committee of Convocation at BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus

2017 (June to July): Awarded University Immersion Grant to visit University of Los Angeles, California, from Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani (under the guidance of Prof. Ursula K. Heise).

2016: Instructor at Practice School (a unique feature of BITS Pilani in providing industrial experience to students) at two stations namely, FACT, Aluva, Kochi and Helpage India, Kerala, Kochi.

2016: Organized tiNai Ecofilm Festival (Edition 3) at Dr. K.N. Modi University, Newai, Jaipur, Rajasthan on 17, 18 March 2016

2015: Organized tiNai Ecofilm Festival (Edition 2) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa on 08, 09, 10 October (www.teff.in)

2015: Nomination Jury Member of CMS Vatavaran 2015, New Delhi. CMS Vatavaran is the premier International Environment and Wildlife Film Festival in India.

2015: Organized tiNai Ecofilm Festival at Carmel College, Mala, Thrissur, Kerala, on 06 and 07 March. (Ms. Pretty John and Ms. Mary John were the coordinators)

2015: Organized tiNai Ecofilm Festival at Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, on 06 and 07 February. (Mr. K. Samuel Moses Srinivas and Mr. Joseph Thiyagarajan were the coordinators)

2014: Received ASLE, USA, grant of $1000 for creating an interactive video space in tiNai Ecofilm Festival 2015 website and to publish a book on Ecodocumentaries (http://www.asle.org/stay-informed/asle-grants-awarded/)

2014-2016: Member of the Technical Advisory Committee of  Science and Technology Communication Programme, "Jal Sutra: Eco & WaSH Futures" of National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC) of Department of Science and Technology under Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi (2014 - 2016)

2014: Founder and Founder-Director of tiNai Ecofilm Festival (www.teff.in)

2013: Member of the Organizing Committee of the Photo and Video competitions held at part of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

2011-2012: Convened 24, The Film Club of Central University of Tamil Nadu

2010-2012: Director, Mudugar-Kurumbar Research Centre, Attappady, funded by World Oral Literature Project, University of Cambridge, London and Firebird Anthropological Foundation, U. S.A.

2010: Received British Prime Minister’s International (PMI - II) award to research at Queen’s University Belfast, UK

2008 – Present: Member of the Editorial team of Indian Journal of Ecocriticism - An annual journal of Organization for Studies in Literature and Environment-India (OSLE-India)

2006 – Present: Secretary, Organization for Studies in Literature and Environment-India (OSLE-India)

2001 – 2008: Directed music for more than five musical albums in Malayalam 2006 – Present Co-editor of OSLE-India Newsletter

2005: Associate Editor of ASLE-India Newsletter 

2002: Served as the associate editor of Our Zone, a students’ periodical of the Department of English, Madras Christian College, Chennai

2001: Won the First Prize for wind instrument (western) in the University Youth Festival (Sopanam) held by the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala

2001: Visited France for a cultural Transmission Programme for three months

2001: Served the President of Student Christian Movement of Mar Thoma College, Tiruvalla, Kerala