CURRICULUM VITAE

K.A.Geetha
Associate Professor,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Chamber No. A 313/13,
BITS Pilani, K.K.Birla Goa Campus
NH- 17B Zuari Nagar, Vasco-Da-Gama
Goa, India
Tel (Office): +91-0832-2580232
Mobile +91 8805209235
[email protected] ; [email protected]
http://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/geethaka/profile
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=YK8RQWEAAAAJ&hl=en
Orcid ID: org/0000-0002-4390-6027
Scopus Author ID: 50061219800
Research ID: S-4721-2019
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EDUCATION
PhD in Tamil Dalit Studies
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras (2004-2009).
Title: Tamil Dalit Literature: Production, Institutionalization and Reception
M Phil in English
Department of English, University of Madras (1989-1990)
Area of Specialization – African-American Drama
Title: The Theme of Absurdity in the Plays of Ed Bullins
M A in English
Department of English, University of Madras (1987-1989)
BA in English
Department of English, University of Madras (1984-1987)
CERTIFICATIONS
Lectureship Eligibility Test, UGC- NET: 1991
PGCTE, EFLU, Hyderabad, 1998
TEACHING INTERSTS
Cultural Studies
Post-Colonial Literatures
Dalit Literature

COURSES TAUGHT/TEACHING AT PRESENT

 Cultural Studies
 Post Colonial Literatures
 Dalit Literature
 Literary Theory
 Technical Communication
 Phonetics and Spoken English
 Advanced Communicative English
 Theoretical Approaches to Liberal Studies
 Linguistics
 Caste and Gender in India
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2018- Till Date: Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS
Pilani, K.K.Birla Goa Campus, Goa
2010 - 2018: Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus, Goa
2004-2009: Half- Time Teaching Assistant, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
2000-2004: Lecturer, Department of English, G.S.S.Jain College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
1999-2000: Senior Secondary Teacher, Department of English, National Public
School, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
1996-1998 –Lecturer, Department of English, Elumalai Polytechnic, Villupuram, Tamil Nadu
1989 -1994- Lecturer, Department of English, Madras college of Pharmacy,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cultural Studies
Dalit Studies
Women Studies
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
 K.A.Geetha. Contesting Categories, Remapping Boundaries: Literary Interventions by Tamil
Dalits. Cambridge Scholarly Publications: UK (2014 ) ISBN 978-1-4438-6808-2
JOURNAL ARTICLES/ESSAYS
 Bhusan Sharma & K.A.Geetha. “ Casteing Gender : Interstional Oppression of Dalit women”
Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol 22 : 10 (2021) 1-7 (Scopus indexed)
 K.A.Geetha. Entrenched Fissures : Caste and Social Differences among the Devadasis”
Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol 22 : 4 (2021) 87-96 (Scopus indexed)
 K.A.Geetha “ Embedded Heirarchies and Subjugated differences : A Study of Tamil Dalit
Women”in Reading Dalit : Essays on Literary Representations” (Ed) GJV Prasad. Pencraft
International, New Delhi (2020) pp- 122-131
 K.A.Geetha. “Housing the Unhomely: A Study of Srilankan Panchamar Fiction” (2020)
Interventions: International Journal of Post Colonial Studies Vol 22: 7 (2020) 951-965
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1784023 (Web of Science & Scopus indexed)
 K.A.Geetha. “ Memory as Communication : An Analysis of the Reclamation of Panchami
Lands” Interventions : International Journal of Post Colonial Studies Vol 22: 8 (2020) 1110-
1122 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1753549 (Web of Science & Scopus indexed)
 K.A.Geetha. “In Perennial oppression : Internalised Ideologies of the Devadasis” Journal of
International Women’s Studies Vol 21: 2 (2020) 67-7
https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol21/iss2/7 (Scopus Indexed)
 K.A.Geetha. “Stripping Illusions and Mirroring Realities: Ed Bullins, the Absurdist” IUP
Journal of English Studies Vol.XIII: 1 (2018) 23-32. (Scopus indexed)
 K.A.Geetha. “ Shifting Terrains : The Fashioning of the Tamil Dalit Subject”
Readings on Dalit Identity : History, Literature and Religion Ed. Swaraj Basu
Orient Blackswan: Hyderabad (2016) 261-279
 K.A.Geetha & Priyanshu Gupta “ Cultural in Context – Divergences in Rural and Urban
Consumer Behavior International Journal of Communication Vol 25 : 1-2 (2015) 77-95
 K.A.Geetha “Not a Literature of Lament : An Analysis of Emerging themes and
Trends in Tamil Dalit Literature” IUP Journal of English Studies Vol 10 :
3(2015) 50-58 (Scopus indexed)
 K.A.Geetha. “ Unified Tamil Dalit Identity: Problematics and Anomalies”
Prose Studies : History, Theory, Criticism Routledge : U.S.A Vol 36 Issue 2 (2014) 130 –
140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2014.933575 (Web of Science & Scopus
indexed)
 K.A.Geetha. “A D a l i t A m o n g D a l i t s : T h e A n g s t o f T a m i l D a l i t
Women” Literature of our Times: Post Colonial studies in the
T w e n t y F i r s t C e n t u r y Ed.s Bill Ashcroft et al. Rodopi Press: NewYork
(2012) 411-432 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401207393_027
 K.A.Geetha. “From Panchamars to Dalit: The Evolution of Tamil Dalit Writing” Prose
Studies History,Theory,Criticism Routledge : U.S.A Volume 33 Issue 2 (2012) 117-
131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2011.632220(Web of Science & Scopus
indexed)
 K.A.Geetha & O.J.Joycee “Self-Consciously Indian, Sub-Consciously Judaic : A Study of
Nissim Ezekiel’s Poems” Conspectus: A Journal of English Studies Volume 6 (2012) 45-
55
 K.A.Geetha. “Societal Transformation Through Literature: A Study of Students’
Response to Tamil Dalit Literature” Interventions : International Journal of Postcolonial
StudiesVolume13 No.3 (2011)398-421http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2011.597598
(Web of Science and Scopus indexed)
 K.A.Geetha. “Representation and Resistance: Strategies in Bama’s Karukku and Raj
Gautaman’s Siluvai Raj Sarithiram” Journal of Post Colonial Writing Routledge :
U.K. Volume 47Issue3, (2011) 320-329http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2011.564899
(Web of Science and Scopus listed)
 K.A.Geetha. "In Need of Translation: An Analysis of Srilankan Dalit Literature” ARIEL:
A Review of International English Literature. (2010) Volume 41 33 44
 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ariel/article/viewFile/35085/28976 (Web of
Sciences & Scopus indexed)
 K.A.Geetha & K.Srilata “From Subjugation to Celebration- A Study of Bama’s Karukku
and Sangati” Language Forum,.Vol.33 No.1. June (2007) 85-97
 K.A.Geetha& K.Srilata “Tamil Dalit Women: Subjugated Differences” Akshara:
International Annual Research Journal of Critical and Creative Writing Vol. 4. March
2008, 24-30.
PUBLICATIONS (IN TAMIL)
 K.A.Geetha “Virivu Perum Porulum Marupadum Adaiyalamum” Kaalasuvadu
Kaalasuvadu Pathipagam : Chennai Issue 107 (2008) 57-58
http://www.kalachuvadu.com/archives/issue-
TRANSLATIONS (TAMIL TO ENGLISH)
 K.A.Geetha“Roles” (Trans.) No Alphabet in Sight: New Dalit Writing from South
India Dossier 1: Tamil and Malayalam Edited by K. Satyanarayana and Susie Tharu
Penguin, India (2011) 75-80
PAPERS PRESENTED IN INTERNATIONAL& NATIONAL CONFERENCES
 K.A.Geetha. “A Study of Caste and Social Hierarchy within the Devadasi System” at
the 6th World Conference on Women Studies organized by TIIKM and Bridge Water
State University , July 2020, Virtual presentation
 K.A.Geetha “Muted Voices: Intersectional Oppression of the Dalit Devadasi” at the
5th World Conference on Women Studies organized by TIIKM and Bridge Water
State University in Bangkok, April 2019
 K.A.Geetha “ Memory as Communication” at the Plenary session of the International
Conference on Cultural Semiotics of English language and Literature organized by
ELTAI(English Language Teachers Association of India) and Hindu College,
Chennai in March 2018
 K.A.Geetha. “ Fiction and Reality : Reclamation of Panchami Lands” at the
International Conference on Emerging Trends in Multidisciplinary Research”
organized by American College, Madurai at Tamil Centre, Singapore, December
2017,
 K.A.Geetha “Reading Srilankan Literature as Dalit Literature " at an International
 Conference held at the University of Humboldt, Berlin, May 2017
 K.A.,Geetha " Marginalized within the Periphery : An analysis of Tamil Dalit
women" at the International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture
organised by The Institute of Advanced Studies in English, Pune, February 2016
 K.A.Geetha “ Caste and gender :Interlocking Oppression” at the National Seminar on
The “Politics of Gender”, at Vimala College, Thrissur March 2015
 K.A.Geetha “ Asserting Identities : Marginality and Resistance in Tamil Dalit
women” at the National Symposium on “Women’s Voices” at SDNB Vaishnav,
Chennai, February 2015
 K.A.Geetha “Fissures and Divergences : A Study of Tamil Dalit Identities” at the
National Workshop cum Seminar on “Counter Writing- Dalits and Subalterns”, Central
University of Hyderabad & ICSSR, October 2014
 K.A.Geetha. “Being Dalit, Being Woman – An Analysis of Bama’s Sangati and
Imayam’s Beasts of Burden” at the VII World Conference & XV All India English
Teachers Annual Conference on Globalization and Literature at Nehru Arts College,
Hubli, Karnataka , April 2010
 K.A.Geetha “A Dalit among Dalits : The angst of Tamil Dalit women” at the 14th
Triennial ACLALS Conference, Vancouver, Canada ,August 2007
 KA.Geetha “Subjugated Differences – Positioning Tamil Dalit women” at the
Second International &38th Annual ELTAI Conference at Chennai, Feb. 2007
 KA.Geetha & K.Srilata “The Self in Dalit Autobiographies- Personal or Collective?”
at the International Conference on Common wealth literature, IIT Roorkee, Oct.2005
 K.A.Geetha & O.J.Joycee “ Self-Consciously Indian, Sub-Consciously Judaic : A
Study of Nissim Ezekiel’s Poems” at the International seminar, Benares Hindu
University, Jan.2005

THESIS SUPERVISION
PhD Thesis: Gnanabharathi. “Alterations and Adapatations : An analysis of the Indigenous Spaces
of Nilgris Irulas (Completed - 2019)
PhD Thesis: Sushant Kishore. “The Performative Politics of Ethnocultural Nationalism in India:
Thespian and Quotidian Performances in Hindu Nationalism” (Completed – 2019)
Undergraduate Thesis: Abhishek Prabhakar. “Economic flows of Globalization” (2014)
Undergraduate Thesis: Kaushal Sapre. “The Indianness of Indian Art: A Semiotic study”(2014)
EDITORIAl/PEER- REVIEWING ASSIGNMENTS
Joint Editor Special Issue on Dalit Women , Journal of International Women Studies, Vol 22:10
(2021)
Journal of Post Colonial Writing, Taylor and Franscis
Journal of Intercultural communication, Taylor and Francis
Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Sage
Journal of South Asian Studies, ESCI

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Presiding Officer – Internal Complaints Committee, BITS Pilani, Goa campus (Dec 2020-till
date)
Convenor, Departement Research Committee, Dept.of HSS, (Nov.2019 – Till date)
Nucleus Member – Academic Undergraduate Studies Division (August 2018-till date)
Resident Warden, Women’s Hostel, BITS Pilani, Goa (July 2016-Dec 2021)
Member, Library Committee , BITS Pilani, Goa (Aug2011-2013)
Member, Academic Counseling Board , BITS Pilani, Goa (Aug 2018- Till date)
Coordinator, Academic Counseling Board, BITS Pilani, Goa (August 2010 – August 2018)

SEMINARS / WORKSHPS ORGAINSED

 Coordinator , National seminar on “Place, Space ,Travel, Displacement, Exile” organized
by Department of Humanities& Social Sciences, BITS Pilani & IACLALS, February
2015
 Coordinator, National level workshop on “ Innovative Pedagogies for Enhancing the
Employability skills for Students” organized by Department of Humanities & Social
Sciences, BITS Pilani, Goa campus, September 2013