18 Performance – Teacher Appraisal Report

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Government Arts College (Autonomous), Coimbatore -18 Performance – Teacher Appraisal Report

I General Information

a) Name : Dr. U. Sumathy b) Address (Residential) : H-1, TNHB Colony,

Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Sowripalayam, Coimbatore- 641 028

c) Designation : Associate Professor and Head d) Department : English

e) Date of Birth : 19-07-1967 f) Area of specialization : Ecocriticism,

Indian English Literature, Postcolonial literature

A) Academic Qualifications

Exam

passed Subjects Board/University Year Division/Grade/Merit, etc.

High School

Maths, Science, History, Geography

State Board 1982 First Class

HSC Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology.

State Board 1984 First Class

B.A. English Literature

Bharathidasan University

1987 First Class M.A English

Literature

Madurai Kamaraj University

1989 Second Class M.Phil English

Literature

Bharathidasan University

1992 First Class Ph.D English

Literature

Bharathiar University 2003 -- B.Ed English Madurai Kamaraj

University

1992 First Class

NET English UGC 1993 --

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ii) Research Experience & Training

Research stage Title of work/Thesis University where the work was carried out

M.Phil. Solidarity and

Interdependence in Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom

the Bell Tolls

Bharathidasan

Ph.D. Dimensions of

Interpersonal Relationships in the Novels of Vikram Seth

Bharathiar

Post-Doctoral -- --

Publications (give a list separately)

List Enclosed

Research Guidance (give names of students guided successfully)

List Enclosed

Training (please specify)

English Language Fellow Programme for English Teachers

Government Arts College, Coimbatore.

B) Research Projects Carried out Sl.

No.

Title of the Project Name of the Funding Agency

Duration Remarks

1.

2.

Role of Ecocriticism in Creating Environmental Awareness (Minor Project) Environmental Relevance in Vaishnvism (Major Project)

UGC

2007-09

2011-13

Completed

Competed

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C) Seminars, Conferences, Symposia Workshops etc. ( if necessary , give a separate list)

Sl. No. Name of the Seminars/

Conferences/

Symposia/ Workshops etc.

Name of the Sponsoring Agency

Place and Date

List Enclosed

ii) Teaching Experience

Courses Taught Name of the

University/College/

Institution

Duration

UG: B.A. B.Sc.:

Part II English and B.A. English

Literature Part III

L.R.G. Govt.Arts College for Women, Tiruppur

1996-2003 June Govt. Arts College

(Autonomous), Coimbatore.

2003 June –till date

PG Govt. Arts College

(Autonomous), Coimbatore

2003 June –till date

M.Phil -- --

Any other -- --

Total Teaching Experience ( in years and months) :

a) Under-graduate (Pass) : 22 years and 10 months b) Under –graduate (Hons) : --

c) Post-graduate : 15 years and 10 months

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viii) Innovations/Contributions in Teaching (if necessary, give a separate list)

a) Design of Curriculum Served as Member of Board of studies from 2007-14 and as chairman in 2018 at Govt. Arts College, Coimbatore.

b) Teaching Methods Interactive Teaching c) Laboratory Experiments --

d) Evaluation Methods -- e) Preparation of resource material

including books, reading materials, laboratory manuals etc.

Member of Board of Editors in

preparing the book for Part II English students during the academic year 2018-19

f) Remedial Teaching/ Student counseling (academic)

--

g) Any other --

ix) Extension Work/ Community Service (if necessary, give a separate list):

NIL

a) Please give a short account of your contribution to:

h) Community work such as values of National Integration, secularism, democracy, socialism, humanism, peace, scientific temper, flood and drought relief small family norms etc.

ii) National Literacy Mission

iii) Position held/ leadership role played in organization linked with

Extension Work National Service Scheme (NSS) or NCC or any other

similar activity : NIL

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D) Participation in Corporate Life

Please give a short account of your contribution to :

a) College/University/Institution Coordinator of College Academic Council from 2018-19 onwards;

Member of College Council;

Served as the Staff-in-charge of Dept. Library of Govt. Arts College from 2004-09 b) Co-curricular Activities --

c) Enrichment of Campus Life (Hostels, Sports, games, cultural activities)

--

d) Student Welfare and Discipline -- e) Membership/Participation in

Bodies/ Committees on Education and National Development

--

f) Professional Organization of Teachers

--

E.

a) Membership of Professional Bodies, Societies: Has been a member of

ASLE (Association for

Studies in Literature and

Environment)

b) Editorship of Journals : Member of the Editorial

Board of the journal

Literary Explorer

F. Any Other Information

(Signature of the Teacher)

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Details of Books/Articles Published

Name : Dr. U. Sumathy

Designation : Associate Professor and Head

Department : Postgraduate and Research Department of English

Details of Books/Articles Published

S.N

o. Title of the publication

Type of publicat

ion (Book/

Article

Publication details (Author/s, Publisher, etc)

ISBN/ISSN

Year of public

ation

1. Ecocriticism in Practice

Book New Delhi : Sarup

978-81-

7625-987-3 2009

2.

Reassertion of Human Camaraderie:

Interpersonal Relationships in the Novels of Vikram Seth.

Book Saarbrucken:

Lambert

978-3-8433-

8471-1 2010

3.

VaishnaviteEcotheology

Book Authors Press

978-93- 4743-58-1.

2014 3. “A Multicultural Mosaic:

A Study of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy.”

Article Ed.

Balachandran : Arise

978-81-

89957-42-3 2008 4. “Alexander Pushkin’s

Eugene Onegin: A Stylistic Tour de Force.”

Article Ed. Poornavalli 81-234-

1519-2 2009

5.

The Nature-Culture Interface in

Andal’sThiruppavai.

Article Indian

Literature 0019-5804 2007 6.

History and Her Story: A Study of Vikram Seth’s Two Lives

Article Rock Pebbles - 2008

7.

Marginalization to Obliteration: Horrors of the Holocaust as

Recounted by Vikram Seth in Two Lives.

Article Literary

Explorer 0973-0524 2008

8. A Bakhtinian Reading of

Vikram Seth’s Two Lives Article The Atlantic

Critical Review 0972-6373 2009 9.

Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Polemic for Wilderness

Article The Atlantic

Literary Review 0972-3269 2009

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10.

poikaiaazvaar’s

“mutaltiruvantaati”: A Paradigm of

VaishnaviteEcotheology

Article Indian Journal

of Ecocriticism 0974-2840 2010

11.

Egalitarianism: The Quintessence of Indira Parthasarathy’sRamanujar

Article Literary

Explorer 0973-0524 2008 12.

Generative Poetics: A Crusade Against Eco- terrorism

Article Pursuits - 2007

13.

Ecotheological Musings of Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Article Pursuits 0974-7400 2011

14.

Pluralism: The Defining Trait of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy.

Article Ed. T. K.

Hemalatha

978-1-4507-

6435-3 2012

15.

Seeking Emotional

Substitutes: A Case Study of Aparna in

JhumpaLahiri’s Hell- Heaven.

Article

Ed. R.

Padmavathy and D. Mynavathy

978-81-234-

2061-5 2012

16. The Dam(n)ing of Rivers:

Stark Realities and Literary Echoes

Article Ed. Suresh Frederick

978-81- 7273-642-2

2012

17. Intertextuality in Vikram Seth’s The Golden Gate

Article Ed. Members of the Dept. of English

978-81- 926846-1-1

2013

18. The Female Narrative Voice in Divakaruni’sThe Palace of Illusions: A Critique

Article Literary Explorer

0973 0524 2014

19 Postmodernism: An Overview

Article Literary

Criticism and Literary

Theories

978-93- 84743-58-1

2015

20 Ambikasutan Mangad’s Enmahaje : An Exemplar of Environmental Justice Poetics

Article Indian Literature

001-9580-4 2017

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Research Guidance:

Name : Dr. U. Sumathy

Designation : Associate Professor and Head

Department : Postgraduate and research Department of English

i. Ph.D. Completed:

S. No. Name of the Student Title of the Thesis University 1. R. Indrani The Dialectics of Apartheid: A

Study of the Select Novels of Nadine Gordimer from a Postcolonial Perspective

Bharathiar

2. Narasingaram Jayashree Remapping Diasporic

Sensibilities: A Critical Study of the Novels of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Bharathiar

3. K. Chitra The Spirit of Biocentrism: An Ecocritical Analysis of Select Indian English Novels

Bharathiar

4. J. Vijayalakshmi A Postmodernist Critique of the Select Works of Amitav Ghosh

Bharathiar

5. S. Susan Nirmala Envisaging the World of the Other: A Critical Study of the Select Novels of J.M. Coetzee

Bharathiar

6. S.G. Mohanraj Biotic Egalitarianism: The Deep Ecological Substratum in the Select Poems of W.S.

Merwin

Bharathiar

7. R. Pavithra Decoding the Subaltern Voice:

A Postcolonial Reading of Mahasweta Devi’s Select Fictional Writings

Bharathiar

8. S.P. Suresh Kumar Revisiting the Concept of Avatarhood in Sri Aurobindo’s

Bharathiar

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Savitri from the Standpoint of Essays on the Gita

ii. M. Phil. Completed:

S.

No.

Name of the Student Title of the Thesis University 1. A. Haseena Begam Immigrant Experience in John

Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Mice and Men

Bharathiar

2. R. Sumathi Feminine Sensibility in Anita Nair’s The Ladies Coupe

Bharathiar 3. S.G. Mohanraj An Ecocritical Reading of Enest

Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea and Kesava Reddy’s He Conquered the Jungle

Bharathiar

4. S. Sasirekha Human Relationships in Sashi Deshpande’s Roots and Shadows and The Dark Holds No Terrors

Bharathiar

5. R. Vidyavathi Themes and Techniques in Graham Greene’s The Power and The Glory

Bharathiar

6. D. Saranya Nature-Culture Interface in Gita Mehta’s River Sutra

Bharathiar

7. A. Franklin Straddling Fences and

Stretching Identities: A Critique of Jumpa Lahiri’s

Unaccustomed Earth

Bharathiar

8. A. Thiyagu A Study of the Concepts of Time, Place and Culture in The Hungry Tide

Bharathiar

9. M. Sharmila Reconstructing Black

Womanhood: A Study of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God

Bharathiar

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10. D. Nivethitha Apocalyptic Rhetoric: An Analysis of Clara Hume’s Back to the Garden and Carmac McCarthy’s The Road

Bharathiar

11. T. Vishnupriyan The Ecopoetics of Gary Snyder:

An Analysis of Select Poems

Bharathiar

12. M. Mokanasundari Frank Herbert’s Dune and The Green Brain as Representative Texts of Ecological Science Fiction

Bharathiar

13. M. Siva Ram Sankar Constructive Destruction:

Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang as an Eco-thriller

Bharathiar

Details of Seminars attended

S No

Seminar

Level Venue Date Title of the Paper

1 National Nirmala College, Coimbatore

30.8.2001- 31.08.2001

The Non-Human Dimension in the Novels of ofVikram Seth'

2 State

P.S.G.R. Krishnammal College for Women,

Coimbatore 05.03.02

A Study of the Heroines of Vikram Seth

3 National

P.S.G.R. Krishnammal

College for 23.09.02 Emily Dickinson's Poetic Technique

Women, Coimbatore

4 National Loyola College , Chennai 10.01.03

Michael Holme's Self-exile in An Equal Music

5 National

Avinashilingam Deemed

University 27.02. 03

An Existentialist Reading of English August: An Indian Story

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S.No. Title/Theme of the seminar

Activity (Participation/Paper

reading/Chairing)

Organizing

institution Year

1.

Empowerment of Women as Reflected in Drama

A Rock Amidst Ruins:

O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock

P.S.G.R.

Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore

2006

2.

Postcolonial Writings:

Themes and Responses

Power Dynamics Vs. Identity Politics: A Study of Mother of 1084

Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College, Trichy

2006

3.

Comparative

Literature: Problems and Prospects

Ophidiophobia: Bharathidasan and Dickinson: A Comparative Study

Annamalai

University 2006

4.

Urban Women in Contemporary Indian English Fiction

Reassertion of Rationality: A Study of Lata in Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy.

Avinashilingam Deemed

University, Coimbatore

2006

5. Voices of the Marginalized

From Marginalisation to

Obliteration; Vikram Seth's Two Lives

Nirmala College for Women, Coimbatore

2007

6. Indian Literature in English Translation

An Ecocritical Reading of

"Horse for the Sun".

Government Arts College,

Coimbatore

2007

7. Nature and Literature

Edward Abbey"sDesert Solitaire / Presentation + Chairing a Session

Bishop Heber

College, Trichy. 2007 8. Indian Drama in

English

Nissim Ezekiel's Don't Call it Suicide:A Critique.

Gandhigram

University. 2008

9. European Literature Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.

P.S.G.R.

2009

10. Women and Media

The Role of Media in Women's Empowerment / Resource Person

Department of Women Studies, Bharathiar University Coimbatore

2009

11. Historic and

Economic Ideologies

Race, Milieu And Moment:

Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy.

P.S.G.R.

Krishnammal College for Women,

2010

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Coimbatore 12. Indian Association for

Canadian Studies Chairing a Session

SNR Sons College, coimbatore

2010

13.

Socio-cultural Perspectives in English Literature

Seeking Emotional

Substitutes:JumphaLahiri's

"Hell Heaven." / Presentation + Chairing a Session

P.S.G.R.

2011

14.

Voices of the Marginalized in SAARC Literature

Chairing a Session

P.S.G.R.

2012

Details on Conferences attended

S.No. Title/Theme of the conference

Activity (Participation/Paper reading/resource person)

Organizing

1.

Canadian Literature – Dialogue Across Cultures: Canada and India

An Ecocritical Reading of The Diviners and A River Sutra

Holy Cross

Collge,Trichy 2006

2.

Gender Studies and Curriculum

Development

History and Her Story: A Study of Vikram Seth's Two Lives

Vellalar College for Women, Erode

2006

3.

Ecology and Culture:

Interdisciplinary Approaches

The Nature-Culture Interface in Aandal's "Thiruppavai"

Loyola College,

Chennai 2006

4.

Towards a Greener Era: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Generative Poetics:A Crusade against Ecoterrorism.

Acharya Institute of Mangement, Bangalore

2007

5.

Global Perspectives in Multicultural

Children’s Literature

Children and Environmental Awareness.

2008

6.

The Postcolonial Novel: Themes and Techniques

Speaking for

theOther:Ghosh'sHungry Tide.

St.Xavier's College, Palayamkottai.

2009 7. Ecology: Texts and

Contexts

The Ecosophy of Lesley Thomas / Presentation + Chairing a Session

National

College, 2009

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Trichy.

8. English Language Teaching for SPEED

Common Errors in English and Remedial Measures / Resource Person

KathirCollge of Engineering, Coimbatore

2009

9. Indian Association for American Studies

Ecotheological Musings of Annie Dillard

Bharathiar University Coimbatore

2010

10. Eco-economic and Ecocritical Issues

The Dam(n)ming of

Rivers:StarkRealites and Literary Echoes / Resource Person

St.Joseph College, Trichy.

2010

11. Marital Milieu in Indian Writing

The Roving Eye: An Overview of Extramarital Relationships in Indian English Literature / Resource Person

Shri

Sakthikailassh Women's College, Salem

2010

12. General Issues in

Literature Chairing a Session

Nirmala College for Women, Coimbatore.

2010

13. Science, Society and Sustainability

Ecotheological Overtones in Vaishnavite literature

Lady Doak College, Madurai

2012

14.

Solidarity Amongst Cultural Diversity in World Literature

Pluralism: The Defining Trait of Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy / Presentation + Chairing a Session

2012

Details on Workshops attended

S.No. Title/Theme of the workshop

Activity

(Participation/resource person)

Organizing

1. Drama and Society Participant.

Government Arts College,

Coimbatore

2007

2.

Aptitude Coaching Workshop for English Faculty

Participant.

P.S.G.R.

2007

3. Refresher Course Ecocriticism:Theory and UGC Academic 2008

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Practice An Introduction / Resource Person

Staff College, Bharathiar University Coimbatore 4. Faculty Development

Programme.

Right Word at the Right Place / Resource Person

Government College of Technology, Coimbatore

2010

5. Faculty Development Programme.

Activity Based Learning / Resource Person

Janson College of Technology, Coimbatore

2010

Common Errors in English and Remedial Measures

RVS College of Engineering, Coimbatore

2011

Officiated as Resource Person:

S.No. Title/Theme of the conference/Workshop

Activity (resource person)

Organizing

1. Refresher Course

Ecocriticism:Theory and Practice An Introduction / Resource Person

UGC Academic Staff College, Bharathiar University Coimbatore

2008

2. English Language Teaching for SPEED

Common Errors in English and Remedial Measures / Resource Person

KathirCollge of Engineering, Coimbatore

2009

3. Women and Media The Role of Media in Women's Empowerment / Resource Person

Department of Women Studies, Bharathiar University Coimbatore

2009

4. Eco-economic and Ecocritical Issues

The Dam(n)ming of

Rivers:StarkRealites and Literary Echoes / Resource Person

St.Joseph

College, Trichy. 2010

5. Marital Milieu in Indian Writing

The Roving Eye: An Overview of Extramarital Relationships in Indian English Literature / Resource Person

Shri

Sakthikailassh Women's College, Salem

2010

Right Word at the Right Place / Resource Person

Government College of Technology, Coimbatore

2010

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Activity Based Learning / Resource Person

Janson’s Institute of Technology, Coimbatore

2010

Common Errors in English and Remedial Measures

RVS College of Engineering, Coimbatore

2011

Dr. U.SUMATHY -- Resource Person in the following Events S.

No.

Name of the Event Date Institution Topic

1. Workshop 23-01-2015 Sri G.V.G. Visalakshi College for Women, Udumalpet

Literary Criticism and Literary Theories

2. Seminar 09-03-2016

22-01-2015

30-01-2014

25-02-2019

20-02-2019

Virudhunagar Hindu Nadars’

SenthikumaraNadar College

Dr. SNS Rajalakshmi College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore RathnavelSubramaniam College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore SreeNarayana College, Alathur

Women Writers in English:

Across the Globe Green Literature Widening the Translation Horizon Frenweh’19:

Travel

Topographies—A Peep into the World of Travel Myriad

Manifestations of Eco-

consciousness in Literature 3. Conference 28-01-2016

07-01-2016

Karunya University, Coimbatore

Amrita

VishwaVidyapeetham

International Conference on Canadian Studies: Theory and Practice International Conference on

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27-02-2016

04-03-2017

University, Coimbatore

Sri G.V. G. Visalakshi College for Women, Udumalpet

MarudharKesari Jain College for Women, Vaniyambadi

Configuring the Common Man:

Trends and Prespectives in Contemporary Indian Writing Ecoconsciousness in Literature

Modern Literature in English since 1980

4 Symposia 03-08-2015

08-03-2014

15-02-2017 06.10.2016

Avinashilingam

University, Coimbatore National College, Trichy

Nirmala College for Women, Coimbatore Kongunadu Arts and science College, Coimbatore

Research Convention on Post-Research Methods New Vistas of Research in English Studies Modern Literary Criticism

Green Ecology for

Environmental Security