A.ASSUNTA CRISTY

Assistant Professor of English

St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous),

Tiruchirappalli- 620002

Tamil Nadu, .

Residential Address: Mobile : 9952711270 12/122, Second Cross, E-Mail : [email protected] Ponnagar, Trichy-620001.

EDUCATION

 2018 - St. Joseph's College, Trichy , TN . M.Phil in English Literature  2017 - St. Joseph's College, Trichy Tiruchirappalli, TN M.A. in English Literature Qualified with 78%  2015 - Holy Cross College Tiruchirappalli, TN B.A. in English Literature Qualified with 69%  2011 - St. Joseph's Anglo Indian Girls Higher Secondary School Tiruchirappalli, TN Higher Secondary School Qualified with 89%

 2009- St. Joseph's Anglo Indian Girls Higher Secondary School Tiruchirappalli, TN SSLC Qualified with 87%

EXPERIENCE

 Remedial Course Trainer St. Joseph's College, Trichy Tiruchirappalli, TN Initiated thought-provoking discussions and debate to help develop critical thinking abilities and language proficiency to the freshers of undergraduate programme.

PROJECT TITLE

M.Phil. – Women and Transgression- A Feminist Narratological reading of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions and Pratibha Ray’s Yajnaseni

M.A. - Acceptance of Past as a Self-Induced Therapy in William Kennedy’s Ironweed

B.A. – Intrusion of Aggressive Adulthood into Innocent Childhood in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

HIGHLIGHTS

 National Eligibility Test (NET) – July 2018  State Eligibility Test for Assistant Professor (SET) April 2017 Mother Teresa Women's University, Kodaikanal, Tamilnadu  Proficient in MS office, Internet & E mail.

LANGUAGES English, Tamil.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

 NSS volunteer  Active participation in sports and curricular activities  Composing poems and articles

PRESENTATIONS

 Presented a paper on the topic Experiments in Gender Stereotypes

and Role Reversals Analysis of Select Characters in Shakespeare's

Plays in an International conference on “Re-Interpreting Shakespeare”

(2016)

 Presented a paper on Apathy towards Aged Women in a One day

national seminar for students on “Multifarious Voices Of Indian

Women Writers” (2016)

 Presented a paper in the state level seminar for students on Social

Concerns in Indian Literatures Translated Into English (2016) on the

topic Existence in a Non- Masculine World: A Study of Mahesh

Elkunchwar's Sonata

 Presented a paper on Psychological Echoes in Arundhati Roy's

The God of Small Things in the “Two Day National Conference on

literary theories” (2015).  Presented a paper on Cultural Stereotypes: An Analysis on the

Psychology of Women in a national level seminar (2014)

PUBLICATIONS

 Published poems titled in the September 2017 issue of the biannual journal Hermes.

 Published a research paper Psychological Echoes in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things in the January 2017 issue of the biannual journal Hermes.

WORKSHOPS

A One Day Zonal Level Workshop on Research Methodology: Theory And Practice, held at National College on 6th October 2017.

Cinema culture: A social – Moral Perspective cum Kaveri Short Film festival, conducted by Kaveri Communications on 29th November 2013

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