DEPARTMENT OF
English
Full Name:
Josy Joseph
Designation:
Associate Professor
Department:
English
Email:
Mobile Number:
+91 9447401282
Residence Phone Number:
0481-2447627
Educational Qualifications:
MA
Area of Specialization:
Shakespeare Studies, Twentieth Century British Poetry, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, Life Writing, Translation
Papers Presented:
- “Deconstructing Gandhi” National Seminar on Global Economic Crisis and Gandhian Solutions, 2010
- “A Fraction of Infinity: Srinivasa Ramanujan and the Concept of Genius”. National Seminar on The Life and Contributions of Srinivasa Ramanujan. 2012.
- “Writing Degree Zero: Reduction and Repetition in Samuel Beckett”. Regional Seminar on Beckett Back to Back, U C College, Aluva, 2012
- “On the Nature of Art: Between Brecht and Beckett- Regional Seminar on Modern European Drama, Mahatma Gandhi University, 2013
- “Shakespeare in the 21st Century: Poetics, Politics, and Prospects”. Two Day National Seminar on Shakespeare Continuum, Kahm Unity Women’s College Manjeri, 2014
Papers Published:
Research Articles and Essays
- 'Reading Dreams like Poetry'. Preface to What Dreams Tell Us: Lacanian Interpretation by Sebastian Vattamattom. NBS, 2019
- Fathers and their Uncanny Ghosts: Spectres of Hamlet in Freud, Lacan, and Derrida. Albertian Review of Literature. Vol 5: No.1, July 2018.
- An Intellectual with a Humanist Face. Madhyamam Weekly. 1026:20. 30 October 2017.
- 'Uncanny' in Keywords: Paradigms and Kerala Perspectives. Ed Aju Narayanan. VPGNS Research Centre, U C College, Aluva. 2017
- 'Krapp, Kurup and Us: Three Texts, Many Layers' in Beckett, Krapp and Kurup. Ed V C Harris and Aju K Narayanan. SPCS, 2014.
- Shakespeare in the 21st Century: Poetics, Politics and Prospects. Singularities. Vol I, Issue 2. January 2014.
- A Fraction of Infinity: Srinivasa Ramanujan and the Concept of Genius. Proceedings of the National Seminar on Ramanujan. Ed T Thrivikraman and Gigi Thomas. S B College, August 2012.
- Ten Arguments against Online Education
https://kochipost.com/2020/06/
16/ten-arguments-against- online-education/ - The Loneliness of being Bindu Ammini
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com/2019/12/02/the-loneliness- of-being-bindu-ammini/ - Of Egregious Violations and Amicable Solutions
http://qjk.9bc.myftpupload.
com/2019/11/11/of-egregious- violations-and-amicable- solutions/ - Campus Protests, Opposing Worldviews and a Nation's Destiny
http://qjk.9bc.myftpupload.
com/2019/11/22/campus- protests-opposing-worldviews- and-a-nations-destiny/
- Two Novels and Twenty Years in between
https://www.onmanorama.com/
news/columns/critical- soliloquies/2017/09/08/ arundhati-roy-novels-two- decades.html - Babas, Black Sheep and the Excesses of the Faith Industry
https://www.onmanorama.com/
news/columns/critical- soliloquies/2017/09/01/faith- industry-in-india-babas-cults- commercialisation-of- spirituality.html - The Optics of Justice
https://www.onmanorama.com/
news/columns/critical- soliloquies/2017/07/20/the- optics-of-justice-dalit- president.html - The Mother of All Inequalities
https://www.onmanorama.com/
news/columns/critical- soliloquies/2017/07/03/ patriarchy-in-malayalam-film- industry-amma-actress-attack- case.html - His Master's Game
https://www.onmanorama.com/
news/columns/critical- soliloquies/2017/06/17/india- versus-pakistan-final-history- of-cricket-colonialism.html - The Ministry of Happiness and Provocation
https://www.onmanorama.com/
news/columns/critical- soliloquies/2017/06/04/ arundhati-roy-novel-ministry- of-utmost-happiness-earlier- works.html
- Wooden Dolls by Karoor. The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Malayalam Literature. Vol 2. Ed P P Raveendran and G S Jayasree. 2017.
- "Intertextuality and Parody.” Thapasam, 2009.
INVITED LECTURERS IN WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES:
- "Ideology and Althusser's Idea of Apparatus''. Invited Lecture on Google Meet for the Webinar Series on Theory. Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod. 25 June 2020.
- "Culture, Class, and the Digital Divide". Webinar on The Socio-cultural Ramifications of Online Education. Sree Narayana College, Chempazhanthy. 18 June 2020.
- "The Politics of Deconstruction". Webinar Series on 'the Politics of Space'. St Teresa's College, Ernakulam. 29 May 2020
- "Barthes, Foucault, and the Question of Author(ity)" at the two-day Seminar on 'Theory: Paradigms and Interfaces' organised by the English Department of St Thomas College, Kozhenchery. 21 January 2020.
- "The Shakespeare Myth: Genius, Imagination, Incandescence". Invited Lecture. S H College, Thevara, Ernakulam. 05 December 2019
- "Literature and Cinema: The Meaning of Art". Inauguration of LitScope Forum, Govt Higher Secondary School, Thrikkodithanam. 19 November 2019.
- "Neptune's Empire and Literary Imagination: Reflections on the Robinsonade Tradition and the Caliban Paradigm". Keynote Address at the two-day International Seminar on Marine Literature, organised by MSM College Kayamkulam. 19 July 2019.
- 'Text, Discourse, and Power: The Theories of Foucault and Barthes", Sree Shankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady. 13 March 2019.
- "Text, Textuality and Intertextuality: The Theories of Roland Barthes", BJM Govt College, Chavara, Kollam. 06 March 2019.
- "Art and Ideology: The Political Unconscious of Popular Malayalam Movies". Mar Thoma College, Thiruvalla. 22 February 2019.
- "Marxism, Literature and Culture". Invited Lecture. St Aloysius College, Edathua. 16 January 2019
- "Reflections on the Social Media". Sree Shankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Ettumanoor Centre. 02 January 2019
- "Speaking Truth to Power: 50 Years of Eloquence". Golden Jubilee Lecture. U C College, Aluva. 20 December 2018.
- "Knowledge, Democracy and the New Media". Sacred Heart College, Thevara. 17 December 2018.
- "Knowledge is for Cutting: Intellectual and Imaginative Interventions". V C Harris Memorial Lecture. Kristu Jyothi College, Chethipuzha. 11 October 2018.
- 'The Narcissism of Minor Differences: Multiculturalism, Nationalism and the Question of the Other". Two-day National Seminar on History. Assumption College, Changanassery. 06 October 2018.
- "Ways of Reading" for the English Association of NSS College, Vazhoor. 19 June 2018.
- "Derrida and Deconstruction: An Overview" for the English Department of Mar Thoma College, Thiruvalla. 12 June 2018.
- "The Ideology of Fiction" at the International Book Fair organised by the District Library Council, Kottayam. 22 May 2018.
- "Shakespeare and Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Hamlet". Academic Staff College, Calicut University. 03 March 2018.
- "The Being Question of/in Hamlet". School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. 27 Feb 2018.
- "Performing Shakespeare: Texts, Transactions and Semantics". Newman College, Thodupuzha. 21 Feb 2018.
- "What is the Acceptable Amount of Blood for Good Literature? Some Reflections on War and Literature". St Alphonsa College, Soosaipuram, Kanyakumari. 16 Feb 2018.
- "Power, Knowledge, Discourse: The Ethics and Politics of Theory". Government College, Nattakom, Kottayam. 05 December 2017.
- "The Social Media: The Cyber Face of Activism". Darsana International Book Fair. 22 Nov 2017.
- "Modernism, Postmodernism and Beyond" for the English Department of NSS College, Pandalam. 15 Nov 2017.
- "V C Harris and Deconstruction". Commemorative Lecture at the School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University. 09 Nov 2017.
- "The Intellectual in the Public Sphere" for the English Department of St Teresa's College, Kochi. 07 Nov 2017.
- "Writing Culture/Culture Writing: Mediated Realities" at the Two-day National Seminar on ' Nature, Culture and the Media' organised by the English Department of K E College, 27 Oct 2017.
- "Introduction to Literary/Cultural Theories". CMS College, Kottayam. 19 Oct 2017.
- "On Books, Literature and Reading". Devamatha College, Kuravilangadu. 06 July 2017.
- "The Polyphony of Poetry: Some Random Thoughts". Kavyavedi. Ettumanoor. 04 June 2017.
- "Nation, Narration, Imagination: Historiography and its Discontents". Fatima Matha College, Kollam. 28 March 2017.
- "Rethinking Derrida: Deconstruction and After". Baselius College, Kottayam. 14 March 2017.
- "Semiotics, Politics and Cultural Studies". Ilahia College, Moovattupuzha. 02 February 2017.
- "Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault in the Intellectual Sphere of Kerala' at the Three-day Seminar on '60 Years of Kerala: History and Imagination' organised by Thapasam. 27 January 2017.
- "Spectres of Derrida: Fifty Years of Deconstruction". S H College, Thevara. 23 January 2017
- "The Semiotics of a Symposium: Derrida, Baltimore and More". School of Letters. Mahatma Gandhi University. Oct 2016.
- "Reading/Doing Shakespeare: Texts, Theory and Performance" at the Two-day Literary Fest organised by the English Department of Bishop Moore College, Mavelikkara. 17 February 2016.
- "The Uncanny in Padmarajan: Reading Fictional and Cinematic Texts" at the Three-day National Seminar organised by the School of Letters. 04 Feb 2016.
- "The Uncanny: Theory and Practice" at the Three-day National Seminar on 'Keywords' organised by the Malayalam Department of U C College, Aluva. 21 January 2016. “
- The Politics and Poetics of Retelling Myths: A Genealogical Analysis of Select Ramayana Texts”. UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Myths and Fairy Tales: Telling and Retelling, TM Jacob Memorial Government College, Manimalakunnu, 26-27 Nov 2015.
- “Othering Lives: Ethics, Politics and the Marginal Subject”. UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Destabilising the Power Structures: Musings on “Other” in Indo-American Narratives, BCM College, Kottayam, 26-27 Nov 2015.
- “Writing for the Public Domain”.One Day Seminar on New Media, Technology and the Public Domain, CMS College, Kottayam, 13 Oct 2015.
- “Democracy, Technology and Social/Alternative Media: Signposts of the Contemporary World (Dis) Order”. UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Media, Technology and Development, Newman’s College, Thodupuzha, 30 Sept-01 Oct 2015.
- “Fathers and their Uncanny Ghosts: Spectres of Hamlet in Freud, Lacan and Derrida”. UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Tappings from Outside: The Supernatural in Literature and Films, St George’s College, Aruvithura, 19-20 Aug 2015.
Extension Activities:
- "Theory Café", a series of short lectures on YouTube for the public through BTV, the college channel.
- Interviewed Ethiran Kathiravan at the Kerala Literature Festival, Kozhikode. 18 January 2020.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=
TFV8W-XcPLQ&feature=share - Interviewed T M Krishna at Thiruvananthapuram for the Four-day Spaces Festival organised by the D C Books. 01 September 2019.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?
feature=share&v=SyzoJhJrYj0 - Interviewed Manu S Pillai at the Three-day National Seminar on 'Renaissance and Modernity: Rereading Kerala', organised by the Ettumanoor Centre of Sree Sankara University of Sanskrit. 28 June 2017.
- Speaker “Cultural Studies Today” at the Book Release of Cultural Studies: A Reader, CMS College Kottayam
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