Faculty Profile Name: Dr. SUDEESH K. Designation: Assistant Professor

Faculty Profile

Name: Dr. SUDEESH K.

Designation: Assistant Professor

Teaching Areas: Literary and Cultural Studies

Research Interests: Film Studies, Poetry, New Media Studies, Popular Culture, South Asian Studies, Sports Personalities, Gender Studies etc.

Education: PhD, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 2017. MPhil, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 2011. MA (English Language & Literature), Kannur University, 2010

Professional Experience: 3+ Years

1. Since Jul 2019: Assistant Professor, Department of English, ICFAI University Nagaland. Dimapur.

2. Jul 2018 – Jun 2019: Assistant Professor and Head-in Charge, Dept. of English, St. Joseph University, Dimapur, Nagaland

3. Jun 2017 – Dec 2018: Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, National College of Arts and Science (affiliated to University of Calicut), Puliyavu, Kerala.

4. Sep 2016 – Mar 2017: Assistant Professor (on Contract), Dept. of Studies in English, Kannur University, Kerala.

Academic Publications

1. Published a research paper titled “The Many Layers of Drishyam: Questions of Law, Desires and the Organically Uprooted Existence of a Family man” in the Dimapur Government College Journal-, Volume 1, ISSUE 5, 2018-19, ISSN:2349-8269

2. Published a Chapter titled “Spotting the Sportive Generic Hero of Malayalam Gangster Movies” in the edited volume Post-Theory And The Discourses Of The New: Introductory Readings, ISBN: 978-938863008

3. Published a research article titled Chasing the Cultural Matrix of Comedic Crime Sequences: A Study on the Comic Configuration of Crime in Malayalam Cinema. IUN Journal of Social Sciences, 2019-20, ISSN: 2 3 9 5 - 3 1 2 8

4. Published a newspaper article titled “Living through Literature” in Nagaland Today.

5. Published an online article titled “The Local Cosmopolitan Clashes Of World Cup: A Curious Case of Kerala” in the online journal Footytimes. URL: https://footytimes.com/2018/06/29/the- local-cosmopolitan-clashes-of-world-cup-a-curious-case-of-kerala/

6. Published an online film review titled “Premam Effect”: Some Reflections on the Normalization of Love in the online magazine Bodhi Commons. URL:http://beta.bodhicommons.org/article/premam-effect-some-reflections-on-the- normalization-of-love

Papers Presented

1. Presented a paper at the international GAPS conference themed The Postcolonial and the Material. The title of my paper is: “Nirupama Rajeev as the Maternal Object of a Dream: Region, Nation and the Vernacular Cosmopolitanism.” The conference was held in Augsburg, Germany during 5th - 7th May, 2016.

2. Presented a paper at the Academic conference themed “Grappling with the Sacred” organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. The title of my paper is: “Nirupama Rajeev as an Honorable Mother: A Study of the Sacred Imaginary of South Indian Green Nationalism”. The academic conference- 2016 was held during 21st and 24th of January, 2016.

3. Presented a paper at the UGC sponsored National Conference on Film, Film Studies, and Ideology, Department of English, Sree Kerala Varma College. Thrissur, Kerala. The tile of my paper is “The Career of Crime in Malayalam Cinema”. 12-14 November 2014

4. Presented a paper at the national Seminar on The Movements in Time/Space.Department of English, Govt. Victoria College, Palakkad. The title of my paper is “The Nehruvian Consensus and Its Evental Break-up: A Reading of Padmarajan’s Arapettakettiyagramattil”. The seminar was held during 15-16 December 2014.

5. Presented a paper titled “Equality, Emancipation and English Studies” at the International Conference on “Dalitality as a Global Paradigm: Theorizing Indigenous Studies” hosted by the Department of Studies in English, Kannur University, Kerala on March 21-23, 2013.

6. Presented a paper on The Prospects of English Studies at the three-day international conference on “Unveiling a Secret Agreement: Revisiting the Contours of English Studies” 19-21, 2012, School of English Literary Studies, EFLU, Hyderabad.