Detailed CV Name Dr Ravishankar Rao Educational Qualification M.A., Ph.D., PGDHRM Designation Professor Address for Correspondence Department of English Studies Mangalore University Mangalagangothri 574199, India E-Mail [email protected] Phone 9448300540 Research Areas Partition Narratives Film Studies Canadian Literature Professional Teaching Experience 37 years Research Guidance Completed students list Dr Mithun Chakravarty Dr Melisa Goveas Dr Subrahmanya Sharma Ongoing registered students list Ms Akshatha M. G. Sr Veena Lobo Mr Kavan Kumar Ms Lizbeth Shine Professional Collaboration Initiated and sustained the Faculty-Student Academic Exchange Programme with Dept of Journalism, Volda University, Norway Research Journal Publications International Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas and Nihalani’s Screen Version: A Study of the Semiotics of the Partition Trauma.” Sharing A Commonwealth. Selected papers from the ACLALS Triennial international conference, Kuala Lumpur, December 1-6, 1998. Ed. C. S. Lim, et al. Kuala Lumpur: ACLALS-U of Malaya, 2001. 314-25. “Canadian Multiculturalism: Making of the Mosaic” in the Canadian Studies Website www.canadastukeralauniv.edu.in/pdf/Section_A.pdf, in Section A : “History of Canada”, UGC Area Studies Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Kerala, June 2008. “Appropriating the Other, or the Appropriatable Other? Yeats, Tagore and the Prize of 1913.” The Literary Criterion XLI: 3-4 (2006). 57-71. “Situating Student-centred Learning in Times of Change: A Literary View.” Proc. of the International Conference on School Education. Brahmavar: STEP-Little Rock, 2004. “Political Stances and Fictional Attitudes: A Comparative Study of the Political Fiction of Boris Pasternak and Shivarama Karantha.” With Sripada Bhat. Indian Journal for Russian Language, Literature and Culture 4:1-2 (June-Dec. 1987): 85-89. “Indian and African Fiction: Points of Convergence.” New Quest 62 (March-Apr. 1987): 36- 43. Research Journal Publications National Video Presentation (equal to Research Paper as per MHRD-UGC Guidelines) on “Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali and Introduction to Our films, Their Films” for MHRD-UGC- SWAYAM Postgraduate Level Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Film Studies. Course Link: https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/ugc19_hs31/preview. Offered by Central University of Kerala, Periye, Kasaragod., 2020. “The Maple Laughs Forever! But Who Will Hear? A Foray into the Locations of Humour in CanadianPoetry” in Humour Traditions in Australia and Canada, ed. B. Hariharan and Suja Kurup P L, published by the Centre for Australian Studies and Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Kerala. Chennai: Emerald, 2020. 34-45. “Bharathiya Kala Jagathina Meruparvatha: Narahari Gopalakrishna Pavanje” in Kalluraya P., Shripathi et al., eds., Karavali Mahaniyara Baduku Saadhane. Mangalore: Prasaranga, Mangalore University, 2015. 332-39. “Globalisation and the Transformation of Public Spaces in the Indo-Canadian Context of Higher Education” in Hariharan, B. and P. P. Ajayakumar, eds. Convergence and Configurations of Disciplines: Canada and India. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2014. 48-67. ISBN 978-81-8043-106-7. “Literature on Screen: Tamas as Partition Novel/Film” in Partition and Indian Literature: Voices of the Wounded Psyche.” Eds. Neena Arora and R. K. Dhawan. Vol.2. New Delhi: Prestige, 2010. 366-82. “Evolving Ethnicity: Problematising Issues of Matrilineal Identity through Socio-Literary Perspectives on the Canadian Haida First Nation” with Dr Anita Ravishankar. Ethnicity and Identity: Canada and India, ed. M. Dasan. Pencraft, 2009. 79-84. “Milton’s Paradise Lost: The First Invocation.” Radio-Article for Karnataka State Open University, broadcast on 26.8.2009. “Gendering the Nation.” Rev. of Neluka Silva’s book The Gendered Nation: Contemporary Writings from South Asia. New Delhi: Sage, 2004 in The Literary Criterion. XLII: 3-4 (2007). 82-85. “Sangya-Balya.” By Rayappa Pattar. Trans. B. Naikar. Rev. article. The Literary Criterion XXXX:2 (2005). 74-78. “The Indian Imagination of Girish Karnad” Book rev. The Literary Criterion XXXX:2 (2005). 82-84. “Betrayal.” Translation Review. Translation Today 2:1 (March 2005). 307-10. “Rayappa Pattar.” LittCrit 59 (31:1), June 2005. 104-07. “Situating Child-centred Learning in Times of Change: A Literary View.” New Frontiers in Education XXXV:1 (Jan. – March 2005). 63-68. “Women in Indo-Anglian Fiction: Tradition and Modernity.” Book Rev. The Literary Criterion. XXXIX:2 (2004). 67-69. “Sangya-Balya.” By Rayappa Pattar. Trans. B. Naikar. Rev. article. Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, December 2004. “Sangya-Balya.” By Rayappa Pattar. Trans. B. Naikar. Rev. article The Vedic Path LXII:4 (Dec. 2004). 91-94. “Copyright in the Classroom: Copyight Matters in the Teaching of English at the Post- graduate level: A Critique,” in Somu Giriappa, ed. Copyright Law, Economy and Development. Delhi: Daya, 2002. 202-09. Books Theory As Validation, edited with R. Radhakrishnan, et al, published from Delhi by Pencraft in 2007. Paper Presentations in Conferences/Seminars/Workshops International Seminars On invitation, presented the Keynote paper on “Transcending the Binary: Tagore and Gandhi” at the International Seminar on “Samaj and Freedom(s): The Relevance of Gandhi and Tagore’s Ideas Today”, organised jointly by the Tagore Centre-School of Communication, MAHE, Manipal, and the Edinburgh Napier University, 22-23 February, 2019. On invitation, presented a paper on “Language Planning: Corpus, Status, and Acquisition” at the Global Conclave for Konkani Language Planning organised by the Jagotik Konkani Songhoton at Kalaangann, Mangalore on 24, August 2014. Presented a paper on “Negotiating (Dis)Agreement Freely: the Unique Case of Girish Karnad” at the International Conference on “Translation and Postcolonialities” organised by the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, at Karnatak University, Dharwad, February 16-18, 2009. Chaired a session on Translation and Culture at the Seminar. Presented a Paper titled “Of Utopias and Dystopias: Traditions and Transformations in Canadian Fiction” presented at the XXII IACS International Conference on Canadian Studies, Chennai, January 27-29, 2006. Presented a paper titled “The Art and Politics of Subversion: Postcoloniality and the English Canon” at the Eighth International Conference of the Forum on Contemporary Theory at Mangalore University, December 14-17, 2005. Presented a paper titled “Society, Environment, and Technology: the Problem of Contingency in recent Canadian Fiction” at the XXI IACS International Conference on Canadian Studies, Hyderabad, February 26-28, 2005. Presented a paper on “Writing Beyond Borders: Nation and Imagi-nation in Partition Fiction” at ACLALS Triennial International Conference, Hyderabad, August 4-8, 2004. Presented a paper titled “Bala Devo Bhava: Situating Student-centred Learning in Times of Change – A Literary View” at the International Conference on School Education, STEP- Little Rock Indian School, Brahmavar, April 6, 2004. Presented a paper on “Borderless Lands, Disposable People, and Aporias of Pain: the Politics of Globalization and Consumerism in Canadian Science Fiction” at the III Asia-Pacific Conference and XIX IACS International Conference on Canadian Studies, University of Mysore, Mysore, January 9-13, 2003. Presented a paper on “Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas and Nihalani’s Screen Version: A Study of the Semiotics of the Partition Trauma.” at the ACLALS Triennial international conference, Kuala Lumpur, December 1-6, 1998. National Seminars Video Presentation (equal to Research Paper as per MHRD-UGC Guidleines) on “Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali and Introduction to Our films, Their Films for MHRD-UGC-SWAYAM Postgraduate Level Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Film Studies. Course Link: <https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/ugc19_hs31/preview. Offered by Central University of Kerala, Periye, Kasaragod. On invitation, delivered the Plenary Lecture and paper on “The Maple Laughs Forever! But Who Will Hear? A Foray into the Locations of Humour in Canadian Poetry” at the 3-day National Seminar on Humour Traditions in Australia and Canada, organised by the Centre for Australian Studies and Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, 14-16 Nov., 2019. On invitation, delivered the Keynote Address on “The ‘Literary’ in the Teaching of Films” at the 3-day National Workshop on “Teaching Films” organised by the P.G. Dept of English, V K Krishna Menon Government College for Women, Kannur, on 10, January 2017. Presented a paper, as Resource Person, on “Canadian Literature” at the Lecture Series on Canadian Culture and Literature organised by the UGC Area Study Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, 5-6 February, 2016. On invitation, was the Guest Speaker at the Valedictory Session of the UGC-sponsored National Seminar on “Contemporary Literary Discourses in Indian English” organised by the Department of English, Sri Bhuvanendra College, Karkala, and presented a paper titled “Look into thy Heart and Write: Contemporary Literary Discourses” on August 29, 2015. On invitation, presented a paper on “Jawaharlal Nehru as a Leader: A Literary Perspective” at the National Workshop on Nehru’s 125th Birth Anniversary, organised by Mangalore University, at Mangalagangothri, on 26 August, 2015. On invitation, presented a Plenary Paper titled “Stuff Happens: Re-negotiating Arab Identity in Life and Literature in the post-9/11 World” at the UGC-sponsored