Prof(Dr.) Ratna Raman
Professor
Department of English
ramanratna@gmail.com
Educational Qualifications
- PhD in English preceded by an Mphil and MA
Areas of Specialization
- Feminism, , Women’s writing, Nineteenth century literature., Modern Poetry and the Novel, Classical Indian Literature.
Administrative roles/ responsibilities
- Member of Womens Develoment Cell, Library Committee, Academic Planning Committee, Garden and Sustainable Development Committee, Canteen committee and Staff Association Executive in my years at Venkateswara College
- teacher in charge three times, apart from handling the English Literary Association
Courses Taught
- All six semesters of students enrolled in English Honours. Have taught subsidiary courses, remedial English courses, English b, english elective and DCE and SEC and Ge courses in English, apart from technical writing and Business Communication to students of Sciences and Commerce.
- have also tutored Ma students for over 30 years and have been part of the Cooperative teaching at the Masters level
- have also conducted Mphil seminars on Doris Lessing, a twentieth century novelist and Nobel Prize winner on whose work I discussed in my Dissertation.
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I have written three articles for Hardnews, an international newsmagazine that is in circulation both online and in hardcopy in thirty three countries. -
I have been writing on matters of general interest in hardnews for over ten years, these three articles were located around important debates in the public forum
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I wrote a weekly column for The Tribune , India’s oldest newspaper in the English language. My column “Mind Your language” ran from November 2014 to March 2017 and I published around 170 pieces on language and linked its usage to contemporary affairs. The newspaper has a circulation of two lakh readers.
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“Jalikattu: The Binaries in Tamil Culture” where i discuss this annual ritual that is enacted with cost to human life and needless cruelty to the animal. (January 2017)
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“Those who should be named and the Feminist October Revolution October 2017. Appearing a hundred years after the Russian Revolution, this moment , the Me-Too movement struck a chord in the lives of women who negotiated the hostile public sphere.
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Sabarimalai: “Why Cant Women Climb Those Hallowed Eighteen Steps.?” This article explored the cultural prejudices that banned the entry of women in Sabari mala. October 2018
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Travel writing and food on a trip to Sri Lanka: “ Ministry of Crab and Other Spicy Delicacies” Hardnews june 2019
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Two different Obituaries for Toni Morrison in Hardnews and In the Tribune September 2019
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Two Centenary Articles commemorating Doris Lessing in Hardnews and The Tribune October 2019
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h) i have also published two short stories in Lapiz Lazuli, an independent journal which is both UGC approved and peer reviewed in the Spring and Autumn 2017 issues.
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Award
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Presented papers at international conferences, in India and abroad and given talks as a resource person at colleges in New Delhi.
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2016 November I attended an international conference in Bangalore
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2017 March: the 27th FIILM International Congress. “The Familiar and the Exotic In Language and Literature:The Politics of Perception and Representation.” My presentation was on “Kinship ties and the Modern individual: Redefining the Familiar and the Exotic in the light of characters from the fiction of Muriel Spark and Anita Desai.”
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2018 international Conference on Disability conducted by the Department of English, Delhi University. I presented a paper discussing disability issues in two novels of Doris Lessing.
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January 2019 Gave a talk at Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College on Feminism, theory and practice.