Successful MPhil scholars under my guidance 2013

Dr.Suresh Frederick

The following are the titles and the names of successful MPhil scholars under my guidance.

  

49. “Psychoanalytical Study of Edgar Allan Poe’s Select Short Stories” by A.Jenniffer (7ME104979) March 2013.

50. “Existentialism in the Biblical David and Samson” by A. Jeba Issac Samuel (7EG124158) August 2013.

51. “Ecofeminism in Alice walker’s The Color Purple and The Temple of my Familiar by P.S.Poornima (7EG124167) August 2013.

52. “Ecology and Religion in Select Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins” by S.S.Victor Hugo (7EG124172) August 2013.

53. “Social Realism in V.S.Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas and A Bend in the River” by J.Premkumar (7EG124177) August 2013.

11th Ward to receive PhD Degree

I am delighted to inform you that my ward, Vathana Fenn, has defended her thesis, “Blemish in Unblemished Landscape: A Study of John Millington Synge’s Plays” on 27/08/2013. She is my PhD 11th ward to receive PhD in English.

The following are the other 10 wards:

1. Dr.S. Beula Esther, “Alienation and Power Relations – A Post Structuralist Reading of the Blacks, Browns and Whites in the Novels of Toni Morrison’s The Blyest Eye, Caryl Phillips’ The Final Passage, Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable” (2006).

2. Dr.G. Ruby, “Poems of Robert Frost: Oikopoetic Dimension” (2008).

3. Dr.K. Premkumar, “Symbiosis in the Schemata of Tagore’s Poems” (2008).

4. Dr.Sri. Pa. Dhevarajan, “Fourth Estate : Social Values ( Role of Fourth Estate in Dispersing News and Media Accountability : A Survey of Selective Channels and Print Media)” (2010).

5. Dr.V.S.Murugaiyan, “Treatment of Realism in the Novels of Khushwant Singh” (2010).

6. Dr.Cheryl Davis, “A Derelict Man in a Derelict Land : An Ecological Dimension of V.S.Naipaul’s Novels” (2011).

7. Dr.Victoria Alan,“Women’s World Facing New Predicaments in the Works of Attia Hosain, Bapsi Sidhwa and Anita Nair” (2012).

8. Dr.K.Shanthi, “Ecoconsciousness in the Novels of John Steinbeck” (2012).

9. Dr.V.Sekhar, “Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories: A Study” (2012).

10.  Dr. A. Sheeba Princess, “An Exploration of Space Relationships in the Novels of Patrick White” (2013).

Delhi University’s Course on Tamil Literature and Ecocriticism

Just thought of sharing this with you:

From this year onwards, Delhi University will also introduce a course on Tamil Literature and Ecocriticism. Here is the link for their syllabus:

web4.du.ac.in/FYUP/disciplinecourses/TAMILSyllabus.pdf

In this, Horizons: Critical Perspectives on Language and Literature. Edited by Suresh Frederick. Thanjavur: Amirthamani Publications, (ISBN: 978-81-920985-1-7) a book edited by me has been included in the “Desirable Readings” list.

Name of the article: Selvamony, Nirmal, 2011, “Tinai Poetics and Tamil Poetry”.