Rayson K. Alex is Associate Professor at BITS-Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 2011 for his dissertation titled Symbiosis in the Songs of Mudugar from Madras Christian College, University of Madras, Chennai. A Fulbright (Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award-Teaching and Research, 2022-23) fellow to Western Washington University, USA, he is one of the editors of Essays in Ecocriticism (Sarup and Sons, New Delhi; 2007), Culture and Media: Ecocritical Explorations (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2014), Ecodocumentaries: Critical Essays (Palgrave Macmillan, USA and UK, 2016), Ecocultural Ethics: Critical Essays (Lexington Books, USA, 2017), Anthropocene Ecologies of Food: Notes from the Global South (Routledge, USA, 2022), and Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond: Anthropocene Naturecultures (Routledge, USA, 2023). He has co-directed ethnographic video-documentaries such as The Story of Mudugar, Narikuravar (Life of a gypsy community in Tamil Nadu), Jenukurubar (Life of a tribal community in Karnataka), Learning from Jenukurubar and Nila Paranjathu (What the Nila Said: Art forms of the communities living on the banks of river Nila in Kerala). He is the Founder and co-Director of tiNai Ecofilm Festival.
Academic Qualifications
2005 - 2011: Ph.D. Dissertation titled Symbiosis in the Songs of Mudugar from University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu State
2001- 2003: M.A. in English Language and Literature from Madras Christian College (Autonomous), Tambaram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu State
1998 - 2001: B.A. in English Language and Literature from Mar Thoma College, Thiruvalla, affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala State
Additional Qualifications
2020: Certificate course (Online) in Music Production from Music Lounge, Chennai
2006 - 2007: Post Graduate Certificate in English Language Teaching from English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
1999 - 2000: Diploma in Communicative English from Mar Thoma College affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University
Contact Details
Email: raysonalex@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Phone: 0832 – 2580397
Mobile: 8975297188
Chamber No. A 305
An Institute of Eminence
