I am proud of my wards.

I am delighted to inform you that my ward, V.Vishnu Vardhan, has defended his thesis, Magic Realism in the Fairy Tales of the East and the West on 

19 June 2017. He is my PhD 25th ward to receive PhD in English under my guidance.

Cheers! 

Dr.Suresh Frederick
The following are my 25 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, (17344/Ph.D.-2/Eng/PT), Poems of Robert Frost: Oikopoetic Dimension (2008).

3. Dr.K. Premkumar, (18097/PhD/PT), Symbiosis in the Schemata of Tagore’s Poems (2008).

4. Dr.Sri. Pa. Dhevarajan, (2856/ PhD/ PT/July 2003), 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, (20304/PhD 2/ Eng/PT/ Jan 2004), Treatment of Realism in the Novels of Khushwant Singh (July 2010).

6. Dr.Cheryl Davis, (022175/PhD 2/PT/October 2007), A Derelict Man in a Derelict Land : An Ecological Dimension of V.S.Naipaul’s Novels (December 2011).

7. Dr.Victoria Alan, (04716/PhD 2/FT) Women’s World Facing New Predicaments in the Works of Attia Hosain, Bapsi Sidhwa and Anita Nair (January 2012). 

8. Dr.K.Shanthi, (30065/PhD 2/ PT/ Jan 2005), Ecoconsciousness in the Novels of John Steinbeck (February 2012).

9. Dr.V.Sekhar, (2950/Ph.D.2/Eng/PT/April 2004), Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories: A Study (January 2013).

10. Dr. A. Sheeba Princess, (020860/Ph.D2/Eng/Part-Time/ October 2007). An Exploration of Space Relationships in the Novels of Patrick White (July 2013). 

11. Dr.Vathana Fenn, (PhD-E-2008-0144). Blemish in Unblemished Landscape: A Study of John Millington Synge’s Plays (27 August 2013).

12. Dr. S.Nova Bright, Robustness of Reading in Adult ESL Students (03 January 2014).

13. Dr. K.Kaviarasu, Nature and Culture: An Oikopoetic Study of R. K. Narayan’s Fiction (23 July 2014).

14. Dr. S.Melwin, (038988/Ph.D.2/ENGLISH/Full-Time/April 2010) Behind the Veil of Fantasy: The Contextualised Perspectives of C.S.Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia (21 February 2015).

15. Dr.S.Navam Kirubai Rajan (047584/Ph.D2/English/Part-Time/April 2010). Reservoir of Resentment: A Study of the Novels of Richard Wright (18 March 2015).

16. Dr. S.Cynthia Ruth  (PhD-E-2008-0555). The Ecological Pulse in Select Novels of Thomas Hardy   (19 May 2015).

17. Dr.Siffo Kumeds (033972/PhD2/English/Full-time/January 2011). Kaani Oikos: An Oikocritical Study (21 August 2015).

18. Dr. S.Newton Raja (42931/PhD2/English/Part-time/ January 2013). The End of Exploitation: A Study of Human Rights Violation in Select Plays of Vijay Tendulkar (15 April 2016).

19. Dr.J. Chriso Ricky Gill, (16864/Ph.D2/English/Full-time/July 2012). The World of the Wild: An Ecocritical Study of Select American Novels (10 August 2016).

20. Dr. M.Prasath, (Ph.D.-E-2008-0127) “Expose and Impose: A Study of the Select Plays of Amiri Baraka/ Le Roi Jones” (23 September 2016).

21. Dr.S. Samuel Rufus (Ph.D.-E-2009-1336). Poetics and Politics in Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough: A Postcolonial Critique (07 October 2016).

22. Dr. S.Syed Shaw ,(01209210010/DU/PhD/2008), Struggle for Survival : A Study of Kamala Markandaya's Novels  (25 February 2017).

23. Dr. M. Ilaya Kanmani Nanmozhi, (41319/Ph.D.2/ENGLISH/Part-Time/April 2009) - Towards Women Empowerment: Self-Actualisation inthe Novels of Githa Hariharan and Kavery Nambisan (11 May 2017).

24. Dr.S.P.Ruth Rajathi, (6468/PhD2/English/Full-Time/ July 2014). Authentic Existence: An Existential Study of Select Novels of Philip Roth (10 June 2017).

25. Dr. V.Vishnu Vardhan, (34369/PhD2 /English/Full-Time/October 2014). Magic Realism in the Fairy Tales of the East and the West (19 June 2017).