Areas of Research Interest

• Dalit Studies
• Post-colonial Literatures
• Culture studies
• Women Studies  

 Research Projects – Ongoing

1. Principal Investigator - SPARC (Scheme for Academic and Research Collaboration) project " Museum Effect: A Case Study of Goa State Museum and Goa Chitra Museum" – Funded by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Rs.67,17,538. (in collaboration with University of Vienna, Austria & University of Victoria, Canada)
2. C0-PI - “The Value of Multilingualism: a Case Study from Indian States” -Global Seed Grant funded by Dalhousie University, Canada (in Collaboration with Dalhousie University, Canada & Goa Institute of Management, Goa)

PhD Research Guidance: Completed 

1. Sushant Kishore. “The Performative Politics of Ethnocultural Nationalism in India: Thespian and Quotidian Performances in Hindu Nationalism” "- June 2019 (supervised singly)
2. B.Gnanabharathi. “Alterations and Adapatations : An analysis of the Indigenous Spaces of Nilgris Irulas  -July 2019 (supervised singly)
3. Preetigandha Naik."Dalit Futurism: Caste and Gender in Indian Science Fiction" - February 2023 (supervised singly)

PhD Research Guidance - Ongoing 

1. Mahesh Varghese. ‘To Make live and Let Die’: A study of the Life, Death and its Governance in Select Malayalam Fiction” (supervision - singly - proposal defended - June 2021)
2. Fernandes Ann Rochelle " Unearthing Silenced Histories: Re-reading Portuguese colonialism through the lens of Adopted Children in Goa" (Supervision - singly - April 2022
3. Basma Mahfoud. “Crushed” in translation? Poetics of oppression and resistance in a comparative study of Dalit works in translation from Southern India "Co-supervision with Prof. Judith Misrahi Barak, University of Paul Valery Montpellier 3, France

Editorial/Peer Reviewing Assignments

Invited by University Grants Commission (UGC) to review applications submitted for Research Grants and Post Doctoral fellowships – 2023

Joint Editor Special Issue on Dalit Women , Journal of International Women Studies, Vol 22:10 (2021)

Journal of Post Colonial Writing, Taylor and Franscis

Journal of Intercultural communication, Taylor and Francis

Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Sage

Journal of South Asian Studies, ESCI

PhD Thesis Evaluation

2016 – University of Madras - PhD Thesis titled “Gendered Passions and Masculinity Construction: Reflections on Tamil Identity during 1930’s”

2020 – University of Madras – PhD thesis titled “Writing for the Children as a Child – A Study of Ruskin Bond’s Craft of Writing”

2020 – Manomaniam Sundaranar University – PhD thesis titled “The Narratives of Amitav Ghosh: Palimpsest and Fact-Finding Dichotomy”

2022 – Mahatma Gandhi University – PhD thesis – “The Dialectics of the Anthropomorphic Subaltern: A Study of Select Texts from Contemporary Popular Culture”

2022 –Calicut University – PhD Thesis titled “Subversive Survival: Trauma and Post Traumatic Resilience in Select North-East Indian Literary Imagination"