Professor

Education

• PhD in Malayalam

Mahatma Gandhi University, 2006

Thesis: ‘Kadankadha, Vamozhiyum Prathyayasashthravum: Malayalathile Kadankadhakale Munnirthiyulla Padanam’

Advisor: Dr. A.K Nambiar

 

• UGC NET JRF Malayalam – June 1994

 

• UGC NET Folk Literature – December 1999

 

• MA Malayalam

University of Calicut, Department of Malayalam, 1993

 

• MA Linguistics

Annamalai University, 2008

 

• Certificate course in Russian

University of Calicut, Department of Comparative Literature & Russian Studies, 2010.

 

Experience

Designation	Name of Employer	Date of Joining
		Joining	Leaving
Lecturer	DCE, Government of Kerala	15.10.1996	31.03.1997
Assistant Professor	Dravidian University, Kuppam	18.09.2003	29.05.2008
Associate Professor & (i/c) Head	Dravidian University, Kuppam	30.05. 2008	9.02.2009
Assistant Professor	Registrar, University of Calicut	10.02.2009	09.02.2017
Associate Professor     Professor	Registrar, University of Calicut        Do	10.02.2017       10-02-2020	09-02-2020       01.06.2021
Director(On de putation)       Professor in Malayalam, Dept. of Malayalam and Kerala Studies   Professor in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, School of Ezhuthachan Studies	Registrar, Thunchath Ezhuthacchan Malayalam University     Registrar, University of Calicut       Registrar, Thunchathezhuthachan Malayalam University	18.04.2018           18.04.2021               02.06.2021	17.04.2021           01.06.2021               Till the date

 

Honors And Awards

• Recipient of “ Abudhabi shakthi Award for Literary Criticism, 2017” (Abudhabi shakthi Award Committee)
• Recipient of “ M. P. Paul Award for Best supervising Teacher, 2017” (Prof. M. P. Paul Charitable Trust)
• Recipient of “ M. P. Paul Award for Best supervising Teacher, 2015” (Prof. M. P. Paul Charitable Trust)
• Recipient of “ M. P. Paul Award for Best supervising Teacher, 2011” (Prof. M. P. Paul Charitable Trust)
• Recipient of “Kuttippuzha krishnapillai Endovment Award for Literary Criticism, 2018” (Kerala Sahithya Akademy).
• Recipient of Kerala Sahitya Akademy Award for Literary Criticism, 2019

Area of Research

• Folklore
  • Oral narratives, riddles, proverb, ethnography
• Culture studies
  • Local history, Intertextual studies, Performance studies
• Literary Historiography
  • History of Literary criticism, Kerala modernity, Evolution of sensibilities, Bhakti traditions.

 

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