2021 - 2022

Webinars/ Workshops organized: 1. “Literature Without Borders: Why Translation Matters” Guest Speaker :Jeffin Lijo, Asst, Prof. St. Joseph's Evening College, Post Gradate Centre webinar on Translation Studies, 5th Jan 2022. Resource Person : Vijayashanthi Murthy Asst. Prof.St. Joseph's College and Advisor at the Haadibadi Community Library 27th January 2022. 2. Field Visit: Colonial Sites in Bangalore City, 10th December 2021 as part of the Postcolonial Studies paper.

2. Field Visit: Colonial Sites in Bangalore City, 10th December 2021 as part of the Postcolonial Studies paper.

3. Meet with the Alumni. Topic: ‘Careers in Academics, Corporates, Creative and Digital Common with an MA in English Studies’. Dec 11, 2021.Student Involvements: Publications/Presentations/Participation MA English Students presented papers and attended sessions at the YOUNG RESEARCHERS' CONFERENCE ON INDIAN LITERATURES organized by the Department of Languages, Presidency University, in collaboration with National Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru and Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. 21 and 22 January 2022.



Papers Presented:• Sharon Christy MA English, Bishop Cotton Women's Christian College- A Reading of Folk Literature of Karnataka: Engaging Gender and Caste in “Siri Sampige" and “Nagamandala”•

Chadala Valli PadmaMAEnglish, Bishop Cotton Women's Christian College- Contesting Patriarchy: Women Writing in India - Fantasy and Lived Reality

• Sreesaranya. S,MA English, Bishop Cotton Women's Christian College- Eroticization of the Female Body: Selected Poetry from A.K.Ramanujam's “When God Was a Customer"

• Nikila,MA English, Bishop Cotton Women's Christian College- Multiculturality in Autobiographical Narratives: An Analysis of Chetan Bhagat's '2 States' and K Hanumanthiah's Life Narrative through the Lens of Caste and Cultural Difference.

•Swetha M, MA English, Bishop Cotton Women's Christian College- Untouchability and the Doubly, Marginalized at the Intersections: Dalit Women and Adolescents in Select Dalit Narratives

MA English Studies students participated in the Bangalore Literary Fest and met with authors.

Prathibha Nandakumar with M.A Students

Faculty Involvements: Conferences/Resource Persons/ Workshops
DrAmitha Santiago:
• Resource Person at the “Interface between Teaching and Research Refresher Course”, Department of English, Madras University, The Refresher Course was conducted for 58 MU Affiliated Colleges. Dr Santiago was the Speaker at the Refresher Course on the topic “Critical Approaches to the Function of the Literary Text in Contemporary

Research”. June 25th 2022.
• External Doctoral Committee Advisor: Presidency University, the Doctoral External Advisory Committee meeting was held on 5th April, 2022.
• External Doctoral Committee Advisor: Presidency University, Doctoral External Advisory Commttee meeting was held on 22nd January 2022.
• Chair of the Panel on Caste and Gender in Indian Literature at the YOUNG RESEARCHERS' CONFERENCE ON INDIAN LITERATURES organized by the Department of Languages,

Presidency University, Bengaluru in collaboration with National Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru and Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.

• Discussant at the AHRC Workshop 6: 16th February 2022 Organized by Coventry University, UK and IIT Indore. “Minorities on Campus in India” research network. The sixth workshop focussed on the student experience of campus and attitudes to minority students in Nepal. University of Coventry, UK and IITIndore, India.

• Discussant at the AHRC GCRF Minorities on Campus Virtual Workshop 4. Organized by Coventry University, UK and IIT Indore.14th December 2021 'Wither fraternity? Student movements and the notion of civility.' University of Coventry, UK and IITIndore, India. Ms Blossom Paul presented a paper titled “The Play of Role Plays: Gender as an Essentialist Construct in Anita Nair's “Cut like Wound” at the YRC Conference organized by Presidency University. 22nd January 2022.• Dr Amitha Santiago chaired the Doctoral Conclave as the external expert for the Research Advisory Committee for PhD Research Scholars of the English Department, Presidency University in 2021.

• Discussant at the Roundtable on “Methods to Research Minoritisation, in India and beyond - 13th October 2021, the third project event for the AHRC GCRF Minorities on Campus (India) research network. Organized by Coventry University, UK and IITIndore, India.

• Participated in the Raffles University, Neemrana, & Vishwaneedam Center for Asian Blossoming, Puducherry and Chennai, International Webinar on “Jesus Christ as Guru: South Indian Visual Renditions” jointly organized by School of Humanities, Raffles University, Neemrana, Rajasthan, India, and Vishwaneedam Center for Asian Blossoming, Puducherry and Chennai held on Feb 13, 2022.

Resource - Persons Publications:
Palanna; Allan Samuel. ' The Hospitality of the Eucharist: Reimagining the Borderless Church.' In Rethinking Ecclesia. Daniel Rathnalkara Sadananda and Solomon Paul (eds.) New Delhi: ISPCK, 2021.

Palanna, Allan Samuel. 'Health (In)justice and the Pandemic.' In Spiritualities ofResistance: Essays in Honour of Hubert Manohar Watson. Mangalore and NewDelhi: KATHRI/ISPCH, 2021.

Diana Sushmitha. Intimate Strangers: An Exploration of Select Life Writings of Domestic Workers in Contemporary India. Journal - Kala Sarovar Quarterly Journal Approved by UGC Care List Vol 24. No. 2- 2021 ISSN - 0975-4520

• Diana Sushmitha. Exploration of the Aestheticisation of Culture through Cafes in Bengaluru Editor: Lyola Thomas, Co – Author: Diana Sushmitha Publisher - The Native Tribe Publications ISBN: 978-93-91413-13-2 YOUNG RESEARCHERS’TWO-DAY WRITING CAMP ATTHE KFI STUDY CENTER JUNE 16&17TH 2022 AN INITIATIVE OF THE MA ENGLISH STUDIES PROGRAM BISHOP COTTON WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGE