| Employee ID | 54801 | ||||
| Salutation (Prof./ Dr.) | Dr | ||||
| Name | Keerthana S | ||||
| Designation | Assistant Professor | ||||
| School/Centre | School of Social Sciences and Languages | ||||
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| Degree | Passed out year | Specialization | Institute/University/ College | ||
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2017 | English Literature | NGM College, Bharathiar University | ||
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2019 | English and Comparative Literature | Pondicherry University | ||
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2025 | Gender and Cultural Studies | Indian Institute of Technology Madras | ||
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| Areas of Specialization | Women’s Writing; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Decolonial Literary Studies; Cultural Studies and Dalit and Subaltern Literature
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| ORCID ID | 0000-0001-5275-4697
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| Scopus ID | 58688927000
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| H-index (scopus) | 1 | ||||
| Google Scholar ID | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_kWtt28AAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1 | ||||
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| “Melting Masculinities and Forced Femininities: Gender in the times of Corona” in Gender, Sexuality, and Literature (ISBN: 8194679907)
Reference/Encyclopaedia Entry
• The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Indian Writing in English (ISBN: 9781032245584), edited by Manju Jaidka and Tej N. Dhar (2024).
• Encyclopedic Dictionary of Diasporic Indian Writing in English (ISBN: 9789819600441), Springer Nature, edited by Manju Jaidka, Tej N. Dhar, and Natasha W. Vashisht (2025), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-0045-8
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Upanayan
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| Bodies and Beyond: Reading Liminal Corporealities in Ambai’s Short Stories in Journal of International Women’s Studies, Vol. 28: Iss. 1, Article 12. Indexed by Scopus (Q2) Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol28/iss1/12
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Bridgewater University | 2026 | |||
| An Existential Exploration of Dalit Subjectivity in Bama’s Short Fiction “Annachi” and “Chilli Powder”, Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 113, 2025, 103183,
Indexed by Scopus (Q1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103183
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Elsevier | 2025 | |||
| Mapping Masculine Anxieties and Female Homosociality in P. Sivakami’s Novels, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 27, Iss. 8, pp. 1274-1292,
Taylor & Francis, Indexed by Scopus (Q1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2025.2493637
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Taylor and Francis | 2025 | |||
| Between Menarche and Mobility: Locating Gender in the Works of Hephzibah Jesudasan and
Salma, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Vol. 48, no.2, pp.161-171, 2024, Indexed by MLA International Bibliography, EBSCO, ProQuest. https://jcla.in/wp- content/uploads/2025/04/JCLA-48.2_Summer-2025_Keerthana-Swaminathan.pdf
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Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (ISSN: 0252-8169) | 2025 | |||
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| Editorial Experience (if any) | • Peer-Reviewer for the Sexuality & Culture Journal, Springer Nature (2025-). • Peer-Reviewer for the Journal of Men’s Health (2025-). |
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