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Dr. Sonia Chacko

Dr. Sonia Chacko

Dr. Sonia Chacko

Dr. Sonia Chacko

Associate Professor

She has been teaching in Union Christian College since 2006 July 11. Currently serving as Associate Professor. Prior to that she served as Guest Lecturer from 2004 June 10 to 2005 March 31. She has also served as Honorary lecturer in English and French at St.Teresa’s College, Ernakulam between 1997 July 23 and 1998 March 31.

  • Research Interests
  • Publications
  • Administrative/Other Responsibilities
  • Paper Presentations

Postcolonial Theory

Indian Writing in English

Postmodernism

Journals?Proceedings

“Digitalised Remapping of Culture and Religion through Animation.” National Seminar on Remapping of Reality through Visual Technology – Interdisciplinary Engagements. Proceedings. St.Teresa’s College, Ernakulam on 28 th and 29th June, 2012.

“The Crucible of Cultural Encounters: Paradigms of Conflict in Selected Parsi and Anglo-Indian English Novels of the 1980s”. Journal of Dharma,ISSN: 0253-7222, Dialogue and Literature, January- March, 2017 Vol.42, No.1

“Global English as a Medium for Corporate Communication”. English as a Corporate Communication Medium. Department of English and Foreign Languages, Cochin University of Science and echnology. March, 2017.

“Reading Women’s Magazines: Representation and Gender Stereotyping”.Critical Encounter: A Journal of Literary Studies. Vol.2 Issue1, 2016. ISSN 2454 2083. The Department of English,St.Paul’s College, Kalamassery.

“Ecopoetics: The Concept of the oikosin Selected Poems of Sujata Bhatt.”Critical Encounter: A Journal of Literary Studies. Vol.1 Issue1, June 2015. ISSN 2454 2083. The Department of English, St.Paul’s College, Kalamassery.

“The Soul of Water: Eco-Spitituality in Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green”. National Seminar on Literature and Environment: Deep Ecological Perspectives. Proceedings. St.Xavier’s College, Aluva on 11
th and 12 th Jul, 2013.

“From Facilitator to Manager: Shifting Paradigms of Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education” NAAC Sponsored National Workshop on Equipping New Era Practitioners: Teaching-Learning and Evaluation. Proceedings. St.Teresa’s College, Ernakulam on 20 th and 21 st June, 2013.

“Discourses of Difference: Familial Conflicts in Shashi Deshpande’s Roots and Shadows”. Familial Portraits: Cognizance of Indian Writing in English. N.M.S.S.Vellaichamy Nadar College, Madurai arch, 2013.

  1. Member of Library Committee

  1. “Gender Politics in Domestic Spaces: A Reading of the 2021 Malayalam film The Great Indian Kitchen” at the Three-Day Virtual International Conference on Gender Perspectives and Representations: Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges held at the VIT-AP School of Social
    Sciences & Humanities (VISH)from 20.06.2023-22.06.2023
  2. “Aami, the Malayalam Biopic as a Celebration of the Life and Personality of Kamala Das”, International Conference on Recent Research Trends in Adaptation Studies 2.0, 8-9 April, 2022
    organized by Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai
  3. “Specimens of Indianisms from Indian writing in English as a Corrective Tool in ELT”, ELT Summit 2021, a Virtual International Conference held on July 10-11, 2021, jointly organized by the International Society for Educational Leadership(ISEL) & MIT Art, Design &Technology University
  4. ”The Malayalam Film Lal Salam as a Trajectory of the Communist Movement in Kerala”, International Conference on Recent research Trends in Adaptation Studies, 29-30 May, 2021
    organized by Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai
  5. “The Novel as a Subversive Political Act: Nayantara Sahgal’s Rich Like Us”, Virtual International Conference on Multiple Dimensions of South Asian Literary Imagination: Classic to Contemporary, 10-12 September, 2020 organized by Yonphula Centenary College, Bhutan
  6. “Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest as a Posthumanist Play”. Golden Jubilee Online International Conference on Digital Humanities in the 21st Century: Understanding Human-Machine Interface and The Dawn of Posthumanism. Bharata Mata College, Thrikkakara on 28th, 29th and 30th July, 2020.
  7. “Nation, Nationalism and the Literary Act: Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines“. International Online Conference on “Indian Literature in English Across Time and Space”. VELS Institute of Science, Technology ,and Advanced Studies(VISTAS), Chennai on 20th, 21st and 22nd July, 2020.
  8. “Farrukh Dhondy’s Bombay Duck: The Prism of Culture, Religion, Ethnicity and Hybridity”. National Seminar on Multiculturalism in/and Literature. Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady on 28th and 29th March, 2019.
  9. “Refugee Child: A Reading of Ghassan Kanafini’s ‘ InThe Land of Sad Oranges’”. International Seminar On the Verge of Existence: Narrating Refugee Consciousness. St.Xavier’s College for Women, Aluva on 12th and 13th March, 2019.
  10. “Reel/Real: Annayum Rasoolum as a Tribute to the Real Magic of Kochi”. National Seminar on “Cinema and the City”. Department of English and Foreign Languages, Cochin University of Science and Technology on 7th, 8th and 9th March, 2018.
  11. “The Crucible of Cultural Encounters: Paradigms of Conflict in Selected Indian Novels in English of the 1980s”. National Seminar on South Asian Cultural Heteroglossia. St.Aloysius College, Elthuruth on 9 th and 10 th March, 2017.
  12. “Global English as a Medium for Corporate Communication”. National Seminar on English as a Corporate Communication Medium. Department of English and Foreign Languages, Cochin University of Science and Technology from 2 nd to 4 th March, 2017.
  13. “Home” and “Nation”: Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines. International Seminar on Distanced Colonies and Made Up Nations: Revisiting Travel Narratives. St.Teresa’s College, Ernakulam on 23 rd and 24 th January, 2017.
  14. “Masquerades of Masculinity: Gender Performance in Selected Malayalam Films”. National Conference on Film, Film Studies and Ideology. Sree Kerala Varma College, Thrissur from 12
    th to 14 th November, 2014.
  15. “Reading Women’s Magazines: Representation and Gender Stereotyping”.National Seminar on Reading Media Texts: Representation and Meaning . St.Paul’s College, Kalamassery on 26
    th and 27 th June, 2014.
  16. “The Soul of Water: Eco-Spitituality in Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green”. National Seminar on Literature and Environment: Deep Ecological Perspectives. St.Xavier’s College, Aluva on 11
    th and 12 th Jul, 2013.
  17. “From Facilitator to Manager: Shifting Paradigms of Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education” National Workshop on Equipping New Era Practitioners: Teaching-Learning and Evaluation. St.Teresa’s College, Ernakulam on 20 th and 21 st June, 2013.
  18. “Discourses of Difference: Familial Conflicts in Shashi Deshpande’s Roots and Shadows”. National Seminar on Portrayal of Family in Indian Writing in English. N.M.S.S.Vellaichamy Nadar College, Madurai on 15th March, 2013.
  19. “Digitalised Remapping of Culture and Religion through Animation.” National Seminar on Remapping of Reality through Visual Technology – Interdisciplinary Engagements. St.Teresa’s College, Ernakulam on 28 th and 29 th June, 2012.
  20. “Ecopoetics: The Concept of the oikosin Selected Poems of Sujata Bhatt.”National Seminar on Green Perceptions: Ecology and Texts. St.Paul’s College, Kalamassery on 15 th and 16 th September, 2011.

Education & Training

  • Ph.D
    with UGC- JRF

    Mahatma Gandhi University 2007

  • MA
    English

    Union Christian College, Aluva 1997

  • BA
    English

    St.Teresa’s College, Ernakulam 1995