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Dr. Shintu Dennis

Dr. Shintu Dennis

Designation: Assistant Professor
Qualification: M.A., M.Phil., PhD. 
Email-ID: shintu.dennis@stjosephscollegemoolamattom.ac.in
Phone: +91-8124849178
 
Dr. Shintu Dennis is an Assistant Professor in the Post Graduate Department of English, St. Joseph’s College Moolamattom. She completed her PhD in English from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirappalli in 2019 on “The Concept of Truth: An Analysis of O V Vijayan’s Fiction through William James’ Pragmatism”. She did her MA English and M.Phil at St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous) Tiruchirappalli. For two years, she worked as the Head, Department of Communicative English, Marian College Kuttikkanam (Autonomous), Kerala. She is a resource person and has authored an international book chapter by Palgrave MacMillan and an edited book Pinvili. She has published 9 articles in national journals. As a debater, she represented Bharathidasan University in the All-India Inter-University South Zone competitions. She was a University Rank holder in MA English from Bharathidasan University Trichy. As a student, she had won numerous state level prizes in Debate, Music and Drama.

Trichy. As a student, she had won numerous state level prizes in Debate, Music and Drama.

B.A. English from St. Dominic’s College, Kanjirappally Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam, in 2010.
M.A. English from St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchirappalli Bharathidasan University Tiruchirappalli in 2012.
M. Phil. English from St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchirappalli Bharathidasan University Tiruchirappalli in 2013.
PhD in English on the topic “The Concept of Truth: An Analysis of O V Vijayan’s Fiction through William James’ Pragmatism” from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli in 2019.
Head of the Department of Communicative English, Marian College Kuttikkanam (Autonomous) – 03 June 2019 to 02 September 2021.
Assistant Professor, Postgraduate Department of English, St. Joseph’s College Moolamattom – 03 September 2023 – Present

Articles

Dennis, Shintu. “Caught in Multicultural Tension Between Accommodation and Tolerance: Yann Martel’s Life of Pi”. AnvesakVol 51, No.1 (XXVI) January- June 2021. ISSN: 0378-4568 (UGC Care listed).
Dennis, Shintu. “Metamorphosis of Woman from Passive Credulity to Bold Self Expression in Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time and That Long Silence”. AnvesakVol 51, No.1 (XXVI) January- June 2021. ISSN: 0378-4568 (UGC Care listed).
 Dennis, Shintu. “The Technique of Irony: A Study of R K Narayan’s The Guide”. AnvesakVol 51, No.1 (XXVI) January- June 2021. ISSN: 0378-4568 (UGC Care listed).
Dennis, Shintu and Vinod Balakrishnan. “Symbolic Interactionism in O V Vijayan’s Khasakkinte Ithihasam”. Indian Journal of Post-Colonial Literatures. Centre for English Studies and Research, Newman College, Vol.14.2. No. 2, Dec 2014. ISSN 0974-7370 7.
Balakrishnan, Vinod and Shintu Dennis. “Swadhyaya as Spiritual Pragmatism: Reading O. V. Vijayan’s Khasakkinte Ithihasam”. IBA Journal of Management and Leadership. Special Issue on Spiritual Pragmatism and Spiritual Pragmatics: New Horizons of Theory and Practice and the Contemporary Challenges of Transformations. Vol:5. Issue: 2, January-June 2014. ISSN 2230-7524 https://iba.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Jan_Jun_2014.pdf#page=127 Dennis, Shintu and Vinod Balakrishnan. “Creating Out of the Mundane: The Ethical Moves of Tagore, Frankl and Vijayan”. 
SB Academic Review: A Biannual Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Research, Humanities and Business studies Edition, The Centre Department of Training and Placement, NIT Tiruchirappalli 620015 Telefax : +91- 431 2501081 e-mail: tp@nitt.edu, tnp.nitt@gmail.com for Research, St. Berchman’s College.vol. XX, double issue, January-June & July-Dec 2013. ISSN – 0973-7474.
 

in Journal

Balakrishnan, Vinod and Shintu Dennis. “Spirituality of Action: Reading O. V. Vijayan’s Khasakkinte Ithihasam and Gurusagaram Through William James’ Concept of Religion”. Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society: Border Crossings and Transformations, vol 2 Edited by Ananta Kumar Giri, PalgraveMacmillan.2021. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-7114-5_15

Dennis, Shintu, editor. Pinvili: Aagneya. Malayalam. Ukiyoto Publishing House, 2020. ISBN 978-9390237-63-0

Dennis, Shintu and Vinod Balakrishnan. “Literature Reconstructing Culture: O V Vijayan, the Non-Conformist”. International Conference on Enlightening People about the Richness of English Language and Literature by Anna University, V. K. Publications. Conference Proceedings, August 2014. ISBN – 819085672-3 9.

Dennis, Shintu. “Visibility of Differently Abled in Mediascape”. International Conference on Theorizing Dis/ability: Creation and Narration, Sasurie College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore. 22nd and 23rd January 2020.
Dennis, Shintu. “Mutations of Truth: Celebrating In –betweenness of Translation in The Legends of Khasak”. 
Two Day National Seminar on “Theory and After”, Postgraduate and Research Department of English, St. Berchman’s College Changanassery. 12th & 13th December 2019.
Dennis, Shintu and Vinod Balakrishnan. ― “James‘ Irresolute truth in O V Vijayan‘s Khasakkinte Ithihasam and its translation”. Researchers at Work Conference: History Literature, Translation: Bhasha Culture and its Pervasive Networks, Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad., 9th -11th September 2015.
Dennis, Shintu and Vinod Balakrishnan .― “Purusarthas through Satire in O V Vijayan‘s Dharmapuranam: A Pragmatic Reading”. Workshop on Yoga and Purushartha for Integral Development, IBA Academy, Noida. 17th July 2015. 
Dennis, Shintu and Vinod Balakrishnan – “Symbolic Interactionism as a Cultural Construct in O. V. Vijayan’s Khasakkinte Ithihasam”. 
International Conference on Culture through Language and Literature, Department of English and Foreign Langauges, Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore. 6th and 7th, February 2015. 
Dennis, Shintu and Vinod Balakrishnan – “Literature Reconstructing Culture: O. V. Vijayan, the Nonconformist”. Enlightening the People about the Richness of English Language and Literature, Anna University Chennai, BIT Tiruchirappalli.9th and 10th August 2014. 
Dennis, Shintu and Vinod Balakrishnan – “Creating Out of the Mundane: The Ethical Moves of Tagore, Frankl and Vijayan”. V National Seminar The Enigma of Beauty. Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences Baroda in collaboration with St. Berchmans College Changanassery, Kerala. 2-4 Jamuary 2014. 
Dennis, Shintu – “Metamorphosis of Woman: Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time and That Long Silence”. Two Day National Seminar on Perceptions and Perspectives of Women’s Writing in India, Department of English, School of English and Foreign Languages, Bharathidasan University Tiruchirappalli – 20th and 21st March 2014. 
Dennis, Shintu. “Multiculturalism in Yann Martel’s Life of Pie”. National Seminar on Emerging Trends in Postcolonial Literatures, PG and Research Department of English, St. Joseph’s College(Autonomous) Tiruchirappalli. 28th February 2013. 
Dennis, Shintu. “Application of Advertisements in English Language Teaching” . Conference on Reflections and Innovations in Teaching English, PG and Research Department of English, St. Joseph’s College(Autonomous) Tiruchirappalli. 24th February 2012. 
Dennis, Shintu. “A Study on the Ironic Technique Adopted by R K Narayan in The Guide”. State Level Seminar on Themes and Techniques of Postmodern Writings in English, PG and Research Department of English, St. Joseph’s College(Autonomous) Tiruchirappalli. 4th March 2011.
National Seminar on Importance of ICT Integration in Revised NAAC Accreditation Framework. IQAC, Marian College Kuttikkanam (Autonomous). 22nd and 23rd August 2019. 
Three Days Faculty Development Programme on Effective Teaching and Learning Methodology. IQAC, Marian College Kuttikkanam (Autonomous). 28th, 29th and 30th June 2019. 
Two Days Workshop on ICT Enabled Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods. IQAC, Marian College Kuttikkanam (Autonomous). 7th and 8th, June 2019. 
One day Workshop on Writing A Research Paper: Theory and Praxis. NIT Trichy, 10th May 2014. 
Three day Workshop on Glocal Trends and Issues in English Language Teaching: Challenges and Opportunities .NIT Trichy, 24- 26 Jan 2014.
One day International Dialogical Workshop on Spiritual Pragmatics: New Horizons of Theory and Practice .Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, 30th November 2013.
 
Three Days Faculty Development Programme on Effective Teaching and Learning Methodology. IQAC, Marian College Kuttikkanam (Autonomous). 28th, 29th and 30th June 2019. 
Seven Day National Nevel Online Faculty Development Program on Outcome Based Education (OBE) organised by St. James College of Nursing and St. James College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chalakkudy in association with The Kerala State Higher Education Council from 08 March to 15 March 2023.
 
Name : Dr. Shintu Dennis
Qualification : M.A., M.Phil., PhD.
Designation : Assistant Professor