The American College : Department of English

Name	Dr. PREMILA PERIANAYAKI also known as PREMILA PAUL
Date of Joining	August 18, 1983
Designation	Head of the Department (UG) & Reader,Dean of International Exchange and Study Abroad
Qualification	M.A., Ph.D.
Area of Specialization	Indian Literature in English, Gender Studies.
Research Project Activities	At present working on a project-Gender and Development in Asian Literature,sponsored by UBCHEA.
Journal Publications	“Anand’s Lament on the Death of a Master of Arts: A Thematic Analysis”. Journal of Indian Writing in English , Vol. VI, No. 2, July 1978. “Anand’s Awakened Woman: Gauri”. Journal of the Annamalai University – Part A Humanities, XXXI, 1982. “Major Themes in the Novels of Mulk Raj Anand”. Perspectives on Indian Fiction in English , ed. M.K. Nair. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 1985. Reprinted in The Novels of Mulk Raj Anand , ed. R.K. Dhawan. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1991. Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors: A Woman’s Search for Refuge”. Indian Women Novelists, Set I, Vol. V, ed. R.K. Dhawan. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1991. “Varieties of Loneliness in Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain”. Indian Women Novelists , Set I, Vol. III, ed. R.K. Dhawan. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1991. “Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust: An Alien Perspective”. Indian Women Novelists , Set II, Vol. VI, ed. R.K. Dhawan. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1993. “Kamala Markandaya”. Writers of the Indian Diaspora: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Source Book, ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993. “The Sea Hold No Terrors: Search and Beyond in The Awakening”. Kate Chopin’s The Awakening: Critical Essays , ed. Iqbal Kaur. New Delhi: Deep and Deep Publications, 1995. “The Dark Hold No Terrors: A Call for Confrontation”. The Fiction of Shashi Deshpande . Ed. R.S. Pathak. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1998. “It’s the Mother that Matters”. American Literature and Indian English Literature: Studies in Cultural Contiguity. Ed. Varghese John, et al. New Delhi: Prestige Publishers, 1999. “Return to the Veena: Progress towards Self-realization in Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night”. Contemporary Indian Women Writers in English: A Feminist Perspective . Ed. Surya Nath Pandey. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 1999. “How and What Shall We Teach in the Twenty First Century: The Curriculum Challenge”. A Point of View, Vol.9, No. 6, Spring 1999. Roots that Roam: Relationships in Ramanujan’s Poetry”. Millennium Perspectives on A.K. Ramaujan. Ed. Surya Nath Pandey. Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2001. “A Poet’s Responses to Paintings”. Kavya Bharati . No. 14, 2002. “The Master’s Language and its Indian Uses”. The Politics of English as a World Language . Ed. Christian Mair. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2003. “Ruth Prawer Jhabvala”. South Asian Literatures in English: An Encyclopaedia . Ed. Jaina C. Sanga. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004. “Kamala Markandaya 1924-2004”. South Asian Writers in English: Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Fakrul Alam. Vol. 323. Detroit: Thomas Gale Publication, 2006. “Sujata Bhatt 1956- ”. South Asian Writers in English: Dictionary of Literary Biography . Ed. Fakrul Alam. Vol. 323. Detroit: Thomas Gale Publication, 2006.
Books Published	The Novels of Mulk Raj Anand: A Thematic Study . New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1982. The Vistas of Life: A Collection of Short Stories, edited for Undergraduate Students. Madras: Emerald Publishers, 1985.
Other Involvement	At present, teaching a course on Modern Indian Fiction to students of the SITA (South India Term Abroad) programme, a consortium of colleges and universities in USA. Engaged in developing the Study Centre for Indian Literature in English and Translation (SCILET) at The American College – member of its Managing Committee. And assisting in the production of its Indian poetry journal – Kavya Bharati . Member of the Governing Board of Swathantra, A non-governmental initiative for the empowerment of women.
International Visits	1989 “Rushdie and India Today” Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, U.S.A. Modern Languages Association Conference, Washington D.C., U.S.A 1990 Seminar on Money and Art at Colorado College, Colorado, U.S.A. “Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day” Lafayette College, PA, U.S.A. “Contemporary Indian Women” Oberlin College, Ohio, U.S.A. “Contemporary Indian Women Novelists” Lehigh University, PA, U.S.A. “The Feminist Movement in India” Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA, U.S.A. “Violence Against Women in India” Moravian College, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A. “Religions and Women in India” Allentown College of St. Francis de sales, PA, U.S.A. 1997 “The Raj and After; An Alien Perspective”, Leiden University, The Netherlands “Gender Issues and Family Life Education” Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan 1998 “Challenges for the Modern Indian Woman” Oberlin College, Ohio, USA “The Novels of Shashi Deshpande” University of Amsterdam “The Experimentation with the English Language in Indian Fiction” University of Turin, Italy 1999 “How and What shall we Teach in the Twentieth Century; A Curriculum Challenge” College of Wooster, Ohio, USA. “Adoption and Assimilation: An Awareness through Literature” Family Association for Inter-country Adoption and University of Gothenburg, Sweden 2001 “ The Politics of English as a World Language” University of Freiburg, Germany “Indian Women Writers “ Konstfack University College of Arts, Stockholm, Sweden 2006 “Gender Fair Education” Center for Women’s Studies, St.Scholastica’s College, Manila, The Philippines.

Name	Dr. G. DOMINIC SAVIO
Date of Joining	September 15, 1983
Designation	Reader
Qualification	M.A., M.Phil, M.Ed., Ph.D.
Area of Specialization	Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Indian Literature, New Literatures in English, African-American Literature, Translation Studies.
Journal Publications	“The Dilemma of Being an Immigrant: A Study of Bharathi Mukherjee’s Leave it to Me” The Commonwealth Review, Vol. 14. Toni Morrison’s Sula: A Study in Black Femminist Ideology. Commonwealth and American Laureates in Literature. Ed. A.L. McLeod. New Delhi: Sterling, 1998, pp.171-180.
Books Published	Voice of the Voiceless , New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2006. A Margaret Laurence Reader , Madurai: Jane Publishers, 2002. Angel, A Translation of Ethel Wilson’s Swamp Angel, Madurai: Kavitha Publications, 1996.
Other Involvement	Member, PG Board of Studies and M.Phil Board of Studies in MKU since 2001.
International Visits	Association of Commonwealth Literature, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1995 Indo-Shastri Canadian Fellowship, Unicversity of Ottawa, Canada, 1998 Association of Commonwealth Literature, Kualalampur, Malaysia, 1998 Association of Commonwealth Literature, Canberra, Australia, 2004