Department of English

Thiagarajar College, Madurai - 2019 to Present

Completed the following Certificate courses on NPTEL online platform:

• Enhancing Soft Skills and Personality – an 8 week course offered by IIT Kanpur (Secured Elite + Gold Certificate) 
• Student Psychology - an 8 week course offered by NITTTR Chennai (Secured Elite + Gold certificate)
• Annual Refresher Programme In English Language Teaching - a 16 week course offered by Gujarat University
• Emotional Intelligence - an 8 week course offered by IIT Kharagpur (Secured Elite + Silver certificate)

Completed the following Certificate courses from foreign Universities through Futurelearn online platform:

• TESOL Strategies: Supporting ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms, 3-week course offered by The University of Glasgow, Scotland.
•  Emotional Intelligence at Work, 2-week course offered by Coventry University, England.
• English as a Medium of Instruction for Academics, 4-week course offered by University of Southampton, England.
• Teaching English Online, 4-week course offered by Cambridge University Press and Assessment.
• Educating for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Schools and Universities, 3-week course offered by University College London.
• Professional Resilience: Building Skills to Thrive at Work, 2-week course offered by Deakin University, Australia.
• Academic Writing in English for ESL Learners, 3-week course offered by University College London.
• Digital Skills: Artificial Intelligence, 3-week course offered by Accenture.
• AI in Education, 3-week course offered by King’s College London.

Completed the following Online Spoken Tutorial Course:

• Libre office Suite Base Training offered by IIT Bombay

Publications:

• Psychological Reasons for Suicide in ‘To Room Nineteen’, LangLit: An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal, ISSN: 2349-5189, Special Issue, May 2022.
• Ordeals of Women in The Binding Vine, Cape Comorin Publisher, ISSN: 2582-1962, Special Issue, Vol. IV, Issue I, September 2022.

Conference Presentations:

• Ecocritical Reading of the Poems ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ and ‘Felling of the Banyan Tree’, One Day International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics, organized by Saraswathi Narayanan College and Alpha Researchers’ Academy, 23 July 2021.
• Ordeals of Women in The Binding Vine, Two Day International Conference on Language, Literature and Humanities, organized by St. John’s College of Arts and Science and Cape Comorin Publisher, 20–21 August 2022.

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