PROFILE
Educational Qualification: MA, B.Ed, UGC-NET & JRF, Ph.D
Areas of Interest: Postcolonial Studies, Memory Studies, Decolonization, Culture Studies, Women’s Studies, Performance Poetry, Ecocriticism, Femvertising, Thuggee and Banditry, Neocolonialism, Crony Capitalism
Contact: +91 9446192657
Email Id: lalithajoseph@stjohns.ac.in
Teaching Experience: 12 years
Biography
Lalitha Joseph has been working in the department since 2011 and her Ph.D thesis is on thug narratives at the University of Kerala. She is a member of Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) under the aegis of the International Memory Studies Association (MSA). She has been invited for talks, has organized seminars, published papers and poems in reputed journals. Besides this, she has co-authored books, and presented papers in National and International conferences.
Projects awarded/completed
Co-ordinator of the UGC sponsored National Seminar “India in the Creative Spaces: Politics of Representations” organized from15-16 October, 2014 at St John’s College Anchal.
Publications
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Joseph, Lalitha. “Re-Presenting Protestors as Thugs: The Politics of Labelling Dissenting Voices.” Rupkatha, vol.12, no. 5, 2020, doi:10.21659/rupkatha.v12n5.rioc1s2n4.
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Joseph, Lalitha. “Entity.” Masques: Poetry of Identities, edited by Jay Chakravarti, 2020, p. 65, ISBN: 9798664648218.
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Joseph, Lalitha. "Representation of State Violence in K. R. Meera’s The Gospel of Yudas." International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities, vol.7, no.6, 2019, pp. 1401-1408.
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Joseph, Lalitha. "Making of a Bandit: A Dalit Womanist Reading of Phoolan Devi's Autobiography I, Phoolan." Literary Endeavour, vol.10, no.1, 2019, pp.185-91.
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Joseph, Lalitha. "Ecological Elements in the Indian Narratology: A Study of Anand, Gita Mehta and O.V. Vijayan." The Criterion, vol. 8, no.1, 2017, pp. 122-32.
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Krishnan, Malathy and Lalitha Joseph. Perceptions: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry for Undergraduate Students. Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-93-85386-56-5.
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Joseph, Lalitha. “Contextualising the Contesting Voices of America: Popular Culture in ‘Poetry Slam’.” Pursuits, vol.13, no.2, 2015, pp.14-16.
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Joseph, Lalitha. “The Paradoxes in Ecocriticism: Nature-Culture Interface in Girish Karnad’s Nagamandala.” Journal of Teacher learner and Researcher, vol.2, 2014, pp. 108-11.
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Joseph, Lalitha. “Poetry Slam: The Poetics of Popular American Culture.” Transculturation in Contemporary British and American Poetry, edited by Susan Alexander and Nisha Mathew, 2013, pp. 122-27. ISBN 978-93-5137-304-9.
Presentations
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“Body Positivity versus Self-Surveillance: Reclaiming the Female Body Through Femvertising Campaigns” at the two day national seminar, sponsored by the National Commission for Women titled “Mediating Gender Identities: Shifting Paradigms of Gender in the Indian Public Sphere organized by the Department of English, St Gregorios College Kottarakara from 10-11 January, 2020.
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“De/scribing the Strangled Voices: The Postcolonial Exotic in Kevin Rushby’s Children of Kali” at the national seminar on “Narrating Travel, Mapping Identities” organized by the Institute of English, University of Kerala from 5-7 March 2018.
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“De/ciphering Strangled Voices: Re/presentation of Thugs in Philip Meadows Taylors’ Confessions of a Thug in the UGC sponsored national seminar on “Sustaining Indian Knowledge systems: Academic Representations Through English Studies” organized by the Post Graduate Department of English, N.S.S. college Pandalam from 05-06 December, 2017.
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“The Role of Narratives in the Construction, Elaboration, and Negotiation of Indian National Identity: Representation of Democratic Institutions in the Writings of Anand” at the two day international seminar on “Rising India, Higher Education and the World Order in the 21st Century”, organized by the Post Graduate Department of Political Science and Public Administration, St John’s College Anchal and the Association of Political Scientists-Kerala from 10-11 March 2016.
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“Green Tales of Preservation” at the State Awareness Campaign Paristhithikam 2013-2014 organized by Bhoomitrasena and Department of Environmental Science, St John’s College Anchal from 02-31 December, 2013.
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“Cultural Terrorism: Repression of Expression” at the UGC sponsored national seminar on “Human Rights in the Era of Information Technology” organized by the Post Graduate Department of Political Science and Public Administration, St John’s College, Anchal from 10-11 January 2013.
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