Faculty Details

Dr. Chitra V. R. is a Professor of English and former Research Supervisor at University College, Thiruvananthapuram. With two decades of distinguished teaching experience in the Collegiate Education Services under the Government of Kerala across various Government Arts and Science Colleges and Higher Secondary institutions, extensive expertise spans delivering undergraduate, postgraduate, and M.Phil. academic programs. Specializing in English Language Teaching (ELT), Indian Writing in English, Urban Studies, Digital Humanities, Environmental Humanities, and Human Rights Literature, the focus remains centered on driving high-impact academic research, curriculum excellence, and institutional mentorship.

Former Professor & Research Supervisor Department of English, University College Thiruvananthapuram.

• Member of the academic committee and PG Board of Studies, Sree Narayana Open University, Government of Kerala.
• Served as a member of the Expert Committee for Scrutiny of Complaints (Examination)
• Guided seven students to the award of MPhil degrees and three to the award of PhD.
• Third rank holder in the State examination for the recruitment of Assistant Professors of English in the Collegiate Education Services, Government of Kerala, conducted by the Public Service Commission.

• “Deconstructing the Metropolis: Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House and the Psychogeographical Imagination,” Journal of Manuscript Studies, vol. 52, Jan -Dec 2024, pp. UGC Carelist 184.ISSN 2393-9443.
• “Unravelling History in Rushdie’s The Golden House: A Historiographical Analysis,” Proceedings of the South Indian History Congress, vol.42, 2024, UGC Carelist Arts &Humanities 323, ISSN 2229-3671
• “Female Dyslexic Memoirs: Unveiling Disability and Self Discovery”, Drishti: the Sight, vol. XIII, Issue 1, May - Oct, 2024, (UGC Carelist 86) pp. 196-200.ISSN 2319- 8281
• “Bridging the Divide: The Goat Life as a Cinematic Reinterpretation”, Chalachitra Sameeksha, vol.8, issue 5, May 2024. (UGC Carelist 65), pp.6-19.ISSN 2584-1173
• “Mapping the Journey: Cartographic Imaginaries in Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights” Journal of Literature &Aesthetics, vol.23, no.2, July-Dec 2023. (UGC Carelist 183)ISSN 2278-523X
• “Unveiling the Veil: Mourning and Melancholia in The Golden House.” pp. 45-52. vol.49, no.2, December 2023.Littcrit, vol.49, no.2, December 2023, pp.45-52. (peerreviewed),ISSN 0970-8049
• “Preface.” Littcrit, vol. 48, no. 2, Dec.2022. pp. 5-10. (UGC Care Humanities no.227)
• “Debunking Australian Bushfire Myths: Catastrophic Fire Regimes in the Post-Truth Era.” Littcrit special issue, vol.48, no.2, Dec 2022. pp. 40-46. (UGC Care Humanities no.227)
• “Re(discovering)the Self: Memory and Narrative in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Living to Tell the Tale.” Samyukta: A Journal of Gender and Culture, vol.6, no.1, Jan 2021, doi:10.53007/SJGC2021.V6.11.16. (peer- reviewed), ISSN 2583-4347
• “From Roots to Routes: Mobilities and Immobilities in Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights.” Littcrit, vol. 47, no.1, 2021. pp. 110-119. (UGC Carelist 161)
• “The Ontology of Desert Landscape in Benyamin’s Goat Days.” Littcrit, vol.46, Number 1,June 2020. pp. 166-71. (UGC Carelist 161
• “Visual Aesthetics of Tarot Cards in Italo Calvino’s The Castle of Crossed Destinies.” Littcrit, vol.45, no. 1, 2019. ISSN 0970-8049.pp.124-30. (UGC Carelist 161)
• “Democracy at Crossroads:Fareed Zakariya’s The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad.” Littcrit, vol.43, no.1, 2017. ISSN 0970-8049. pp.191-94. (UGC Carelist 161)
• “Retelling Scheherazade:Salman Rushdie’s Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights.” Littcrit, vol.42, no.2 2016. ISSN 0970-8049. pp.84-90.
• “Seeing the Things Unseen: Memory and Identity in Gabriel García Márquez’s Living to Tell the Tale.” English Activities Update. Jan 2015 . ISSN 0976-3643. pp. 66-75.
• “Voicing the Voiceless: Trauma and Resistance in All that I am.” The Daffodils:An International Journal of Literary Studies and Research, vol.1, no.1, 2015. ISSN 2394- 305X.65-73. pp. 65-73.
• Review of Figurations in Indian Film. Littcrit, vol. 41, no.1 2015. ISSN 0970-8049. pp. 185-89.
• “Stepping Across the Line to Speak: Salman Rushdie.” Journal of Literature and Aesthetics. Jan-Dec 2014.pp 141-152. ISSN 2278-523X. (UGC Care 178)
• “Mapping Cultural Spaces: Media and Consumerism” UCJPS. Vol 9 1.2 August 2013&March 2014. ISSN 2347-8411.pp 48-52.
• “Demystifying Myth and Power: Political Novels of Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie” Littcrit vol.39, no.2, Dec 2013.pp 30-35. ISSN 0970-804
• Review of Goal Butterfingers. Littcrit, vol 39, no 1, 2013. pp. 234-35. ISSN 0970- 8049.
• “The Political Novel as a Mirror of the Bizarre” TES Literary Supplement. vol 01, no.1. Dec 2012.p 25. ISSN 2454-8227
• “The Dialectics of Memory in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.” The New Frontier, no. 3, 2007. pp. 75-89.
• “Macondo Magic in One Hundred Years of Solitude.” Littcrit, vol 35 numbers 1&2, 2009, pp 124-31. ISSN 0970-8049
• Australian Bushfires: Australian Culture, Economy and Polity in the Post-Truth Era published by Emerald Publishers, Chennai, 2023. (Edited)
• Special number on Australian Bushfires of Littcrit:An Indian Response to Literature, December 2022 issue. (Edited)
• Humour: Texts, Contexts published by Creative Books, New Delhi,2013. (Edited)
• Authored and edited textbooks of various classes for the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), and Kerala State Literacy Mission (KSLMA), Government of Kerala.

• Participated in the 57th International IATEFL Conference, from 16 - 19 April 2024 at Brighton, United Kingdom.
• Three-day online capacity building programme on “Empowering Editorial Excellence” 29- 31st Jan.2024, ELTAI.
• NEP 2000 Orientation & Sensitization Programme 16 Nov to 29 Nov.2023. UGC-MMTTP, University of Kerala.
• UGC one week Short Term Course in Women Empowerment. Human Resource Development Centre. University of Kerala. 29/8/2019 to 04/09/2019.
• UGC Refresher Course in Women’s Studies and Women Empowerment. Human Resource Development Centre, University of Kerala. 24 Jan-14 Feb 2019.
• UGC Short Term Course in Women Empowerment. Human Resource Development Centre. University of Kerala. 19 - 27 Dec 2018.

Worked on a Minor research project with the grant received from the University Grants Commission on the study of bestial imagery in Salman Rushdie's selected works titled “Stepping Across the Line: Bestial Imagery in Salman Rushdie’s Novels.”