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DATE OF BIRTH

25th January, 1981

 

CURRENT INTERESTS

 

• Migration histories and diasporic cultures

• Cultural citizenship and consumerism in global cities

• Indian Ocean trade history and indigenous capital networks

EDUCATION

 

Currently doing PhD., at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, India

on the Topic 'Understanding Space, Politics and History in the Making of Global Cities'

MPhil, Department of English Literature, Central Institute of English and Foreign Langugages,

Hyderabad, India. 2005. Topic, ' Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Swift’s Last Orders; An

Intertextual reading'.

Master of Arts in English, Department of English Literature, Central Institute of English and

Foreign Langugages, Hyderabad, India, 2003.

Bachelor of Arts in English, Mar Ivanios College, Thiruvananthapuram, 2001.

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

'Formulating a Non WesternTheory of Urban Space: Contributions of Indian Ocean Trade Histor‐ y'

at the conference on Connecting Histories across the Indian Ocean: Religion, Politics and Popular

Culture, Goa, 1921

November 2009

'Between Malabar and the Gulf: History, Identity and Culture in the Making of the Transnational

Public Sphere' at the conference on Print Cultures, Nationalisms and Publics of the Indian Ocean,

University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, 1517

January 2009.

'Reinventing

Social and Familial Spaces in Cities of Leisure: The Case of Malabar' at the

Fourteenth Annual Cultural Studies Workshop organized jointly by the Centre for Studies in Social

Sciences (CSSS), Ford Foundation, India and SEPHIS at Shillong, India February, 2009

 

WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

 

Indian Ocean Studies Workshop on Studying the Indian Ocean: New Methodological Approaches

and Writing Connected Histories jointly organised by Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA),

SEPHIS, Jamia Millia Islamia and University of the Witwatersrand at New Delhi, India, November

30December

4, 2009.

Workshop on Alternative Research Methodologies for Doctoral Students jointly organized by

SEPHIS and the SEASREP Foundation at he University of Philippines Manila, October 18th31st

,

2009.

The Fourteenth Annual Cultural Studies Workshop organized jointly by the Centre for Studies in

Social Sciences (CSSS), Ford Foundation, India and SEPHIS at Shillong, India February, 2009.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

• July 2008December,

2008

Christ University, Bangalore. Teaching Assistant for the Undergraduate Diploma in Cultural

PhD Fellow, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), #827, Poornaprajnya Layout, Uttarahalli, Bangalore-560061,

Tel: +91-80-26423002, website: www.cscsarchive.org Mobile: +9620604480, Email: [email protected] , [email protected]

Studies Programme offered by the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society

• June 2006 June

2007

HSBC, Hyderabad. Assistant Manager (Training—Language and Culture Development)

• June 2005 June

2006

Mindspeed Intergrated Solutions Private Limited, Bangalore. Facilitator Linguistics

• October 2004 – June 2005. Merittrac Services Private Limited, Hyderabad. Voice Evaluator

 

CERTIFICATES

 

CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults), British Council/Cambridge

University, 2007

BEC (Business English CertificateHigher),

British Council/Cambridge University, 2005