A.ASSUNTA CRISTY Assistant Professor of English St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli- 620002 Tamil Nadu, India. Residential Address: Mobile : 9952711270 12/122, Second Cross, E-Mail : [email protected] Ponnagar, Trichy-620001. EDUCATION 2018 - St. Joseph's College, Trichy Tiruchirappalli, 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 *** .