Mr Abhijith P
Assistant Professor, Department of Arts and Humanities
Profile
Mr Abhijith P
Assistant Professor of English
Mr. Abhijith has successfully submitted his PhD thesis for examination. His research investigates the evolution of urban leisure behaviours and practices in Cochin during the twentieth century, focusing specifically on the manifestation of leisure as a subcultural phenomenon in urban spaces.
Area
Urban Studies & Cultural Geography, Colonial Urban History, Digital Culture & Game Studies
Qualification
M.A, JRF (About to submit PhD Dissertation)
Experience
6 Years
Publications
- Indugopan’s Gendered Spaces: A comparative study of ‘Twinkle Rosayum Panthrandu Kamukanmarum’ and ‘Pushpvalliiyum Yakshivasanthayum’ Ishal Paithrukam , Issue 38, 2024
- Literature published by Sahitya Akademi (UGC CARE listed)‘Foregrounding Leisure as Resistance in M Mukundan’s Delhi’ in South India Journal of Social Sciences (UGC CARE Listed, ISSN0972-8945)
- ‘Dismantling Killer Croc: From Monster to Man’, a book chapter in Wounded Wings: Cultural Politics of Disability in Literature and Cinema.
- ‘Dealing with Disaster: Metaphysical and Oblique reactions in Haruki Murakami’s ‘after the quake’ in Reyono Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (ISSN- 2277-7652, Volume 8, No 2)
Paper presentations
- Cultural Intersections: A Genealogy of Urban Leisure in British Cochin at Urban Metamorphoses: Understanding the Dynamics and Diversity of South Asian Cities organized by IISER, Bhopal – 2024
- Exploring the leisure behaviour among youth: A study with special reference to Kochi at Cityscapes: Interstices of Space, Memory, Retelling Metropolitan Chronotopes organized by Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru – 2023
- ‘Tracing the Ghazal Roots in Kerala: Musical Subcultures in Kochi and Kozhikode’ at Making Heritage: Rethinking Methods, Policies and Practices organized by the Amity Institute of English Studies and Research and the Indian National Trust for Arts and Cultural Heritage, Hoogly, Kolkata – 2023
- Indugopan’s Gendered Spaces: A comparative study of Twinkle Rosayum Panthrandu Kamukanmarum with Pushpavalliyum Yakshivasanthayum, as part of the International conference jointly conducted by Bharata Mata College, India and Yonphula Centenary College, Bhutan – 2022
- Women and the Screen: Studying the Characters of Mary Harron in the National Seminar on Celluloid Ceiling: Women Director’s Struggle, Transition and Growth held at St Theresa’s College, Kochi, Kerala – 2019
- The Evolving Theoretical Space of Queer Feminism: Analyzing Roopa Rao’s web series The Other Love Story in the International Seminar on New Feminist Writings: Emancipation to Representation at Central University Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu – 2018
- Alternate Realities and Fantasy Worlds: Blurring the lines between Real and Fictional in the National Seminar: Of Robots, Ray Guns and Spaceships: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature at TM Jacob College, Kerala – 2017
- Recognizing Voices and Shattering Myths: A political reading of Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi in the Mahasweta Devi Memorial Talk and Inter-Collegiate Paper Presentation Competition organized by St Xavier’s College, Aluva, Kerala – 2017
