Dr. Aju Aravind
Qualification : Ph.D. (Mahatma Gandhi University)
Designation : Assoc. Professor
Details of Educational Qualification:
| Course | Specialization | Group | College Name/University | Year of Passing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | English | English | School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University | 2009 |
| B.Ed | English Language and Literature | B.Ed | University College of Teacher Education, Mahatma Gandhi University | 2003 |
| M.A. | English Language and Literature | M.A. | School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University | 2002 |
| B.A. | English Language and Literature | B.A. | K E College Mannanam, Mahatma Gandhi University | 2000 |
List of Publications
| S.No | Title of the Paper | Full Details of Journal Name / Conference Name, Volume number, page number, Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exploring Masculinity of People with Dwarfism in Malayalam Cinema. | Accepted for publication in 2026 issue of the Journal Of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies]. 2026 |
| 2 | Disability as Fear Factor: Stereotyping of Disability in Malayalam Horror Cinema. | Accepted for publication in the 2025 issue of Journal of Film and Video] 2025 |
| 3 | Shammi hero a da hero: Construction of Masculinity in recent Malayalam Cinema. | South Asian Popular Culture, 22 (1), pp. 121-133. 2024 |
| 4 | (Re) Thinking women in cinema: The changing narrative structure in Bollywood. | South Asian Popular Culture, 17(1), pp. 1–13 2019 |
| 5 | Revisiting Ethno-nationalism: A Study of Nihal De Silva’s The Road from Elephant Pass. | Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. Vol. 10 (1) Jan. 2018 |
| 6 | Devadas to Dev D: Transformation in the Cinematic World of Devadas. | International Journal on Multiculturalism. Vol. 8 (1) January. Pp 70-76. 2018 |
| 7 | Beyond the Figure of the Husband: television Serials and the Cultural Image of The Malayali. | Forum for World Literature Studies. Vol. 9(2) June, Pp. 317-332 2017 |
| 8 | Narration of the displaced: A study of female characters in the Novel Island of a Thousand Mirrors. | Forum for World Literature Studies. Vol. 9(1). Pp 164-177 2017 |
| 9 | Sans History, Sans Style. | Economic & Political Weekly. Vol lI no 41, October 8, Pp. 78-79 2016 |
| 10 | From Animation to Reality: Race/Gender, the Myth of the American Dream and Tom and Jerry Cartoons. | Journal of Dharma. Vol. 41 No. 3. January-March. Pp. 27-48 2016 |
| 11 | Children’s Mind: Cultural Values in Chhota Bheem. | IUP Journal Of English Studies. Vol. XI No. 1 March Pp. 28-31. 2016 |
| 12 | Reflection on the Emerging Trend in Comics Culture: Adaptation of Sholay into a Comic Book. | IUP Journal Of English Studies. Vol. XI No. 1 March. Pp. 53-56. 2016 |
| 13 | “Depiction of Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. | International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature. Vol. 2.1, Jan, Pp. 1-8. |
| 14 | (Auto)/Biographical elements in the Animated Cartoon Tom and Jerry . | Lapis Lazuli -An International Literary Journal (LLILJ). Vol.2/ NO.2/Autumn. Pp. 1-5. 2015 |
| 15 | Oppositional Negotiations: War, Nationalism and Patriotism in the Animated Cartoon Tom and Jerry. | The Atlantic Critical Review Vo. 10. No. 2. April-June. Pp. 127-136. 2011 |
| 16 | After all it is Comics. | Contemporary Vibes. Vol. No: 6 Issue No.: 24 Jul-Sept. pp. 31. 2011 |
| 17 | History and Evolution of Comic Art in India | The Quest: A Literary Journal, Vol. 25. Number 1, June Pp. 90-97. 2011 |
| 18 | Mammy Two Shoes: Subversion and Reaffirmation of Racial Stereotypes in Tom and Jerry. | The IUP Journal of History and Culture, Vol. V, No. 3, July. Pp. 76-83. 2011 |
| 19 | Oblique References: Tom and Jerry in the McCarthy Era. | The IUP Journal of American Literature. Vol. IV No. 3 Aug. Pp. 26-30. 2011 |
| 20 | From the World of Domesticity to Modern Complex Impulses: Representation of Women in Graphic Novels. | Writers Editors Critics (International Biannual Journal) Vol. 1 No. 2 Sept. Pp. 6-10. 2011 |
| 21 | Down Syndrome. Thirike and the Malayalam Cinema | Disability Impact: The Annual Conference of Interdisciplinary Intersectional, and International Disability Studies, Centre for Culture and Disability Studies (CCDS), Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom. July 2023 |
| 22 | Revisiting Ethno-nationalism: A Study of Nihal De silva’s A Road from the Elephant Pass. | Interrogating Cultural Translation: Literature and Fine Arts in Translation. International Conference of Caesurae Collective. 21-23 Aug. 2017 |
| 23 | Devdas (2002) to Dev. D (2009): Transformation of Mind, Culture and Society in the Cinematic World of Devdas. | International Conference on English Studies: The Evolving Paradigms of Employability and Power.. Amity School of Languages, Amity University, Lucknow Campus 18-19th Feb. 2016 |
| 24 | Politics of Power: Seeking Peace through ‘Peace Force’ Military in India and Sri Lanka in the Film Madras Café. | International Conference on English Studies: The Evolving Paradigms of Employability and Power. Amity School of Languages, Amity University, Lucknow Campus 18-19th Feb. 2016 |
| 25 | Muscles and Pornography: Masculine attitude towards Pornographic addiction in Indian Popular Culture. | II International RitVimarsh Conference on Gender and Violence. RIT Foundation, New Delhi . 09-12th Oct. 2015 |
| 26 | Reflections on the Emerging Trends in Comics Culture: Adaptation of Sholay into a Comic book. | International Conference & Workshop LITFEST- 2015 (Conference & Workshop Theme- Comics as Visual Literature). Department of English, Dr. MGR Education and Research Institute University, Chennai 2nd to 4th Sept. 2015 |
| 27 | Filming the Children’s Mind: Cultural Values in the Popular Cartoon Chhota Bheem. | International Conference & Workshop LITFEST- 2015 (Conference & Workshop Theme- Comics as Visual Literature). Department of English, Dr. MGR Education and Research Institute University, Chennai 2nd to 4th Sept. 2015 |
| 28 | The Little Fuehrer: The Jewish Question in the Animated cartoon Tom and Jerry | International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS). Social Sciences Research Society, Izmir, Turkey from 05th -07th Oct. 2012 |
| 29 | In Black/White: The Afro-American Images of Sexism and Race in Tom and Jerry cartoons. | International conference on Re-presenting Comics: Transgressions in Media and Culture. C’PRACSIS, Thrissur, 21st -22nd March. 2009 |
| 30 | Womanist / Feminist Dialogue: Feminism and race in comics and Animated Cartoons. | International Seminar on The Future as Conceived in the Past: The Evolving Visions of Women’s Emancipation. Center for Women’s Studies, Aligrah Muslim University, Aligrah, Uttar Pradesh. 20th -22nd Oct. 2008 |
| 31 | Oppositional Negotiations: Politics and Polemics in the Animated Cartoon Tom and Jerry. | UCG sponsored International Symposium on Global Perspectives in Multicultural Children’s Literature. IQAC, Nirmala College For Women, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. 8th and 9th Sept. |
| 32 | Dialogism of Partition, Conflicts and the Traumatic Memory: A Study of Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas. | National Seminar on South Asian Cultural Heteroglossia. Postgraduate and research, Department of English St. Aloysius College in collaboration with Centre for the Study of World Religions, Dharmaran Vidya Kshetram, Bengaluru 9-10th Mar. 2017 |
| 33 | Flyers of the Body: Commercialization of Female Sexuality in Indian Popular Culture., UGC-SAP-DSA-I Sponsored National Young Researchers’ | Conference 2016, on The Return of the Body: Revisiting Cultures of the Body. Centre for English Studies. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Feb 4th-5th. 2016 |
| 34 | Ethnic Violence and Search for Identity in Michael Ondatjee’sAnil’s Ghost. | 60th All India English Teacher’s Conference. Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Bellary, Karnataka 18 -20 Dec. 2015 |
| 35 | Theorizing Borders in a ‘Global World’: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Cultural Identity. | National Seminar on Border, Globalization and Identity. P.D. Women’s College, New Jalpaiguri. 27-28 Nov. 2015 |
| 36 | Objectively Grounded Arguments: Popular Culture, Education and Peace. | UGC sponsored National Seminar on Education, Peace and Harmony. Department of Philosophy, SSLNT Mahila Mahavidayala, Dhanbad, Jharkhand. 23-24 Jul. 2011 |
| 37 | Nationalism a Cutting Edge in Popular Culture. | UGC sponsored National Seminar on Postmodernism in Practice. Dept: of English, Fathima NAtioanl College, Kollam, Kerala. 2 -3 Jul. 2009 2009 |
| 38 | Settling the Windows Down: Dalit Politics and Polemics in Amar Chtira Katha . | National Conference on Language and Literature. Dept: of English, Karunya University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. 28 -29 Nov. 2008 |
| 39 | Sender-message-Receiver: Encoding/Decoding the message in Popular Culture. | National Seminar on Contemporary Insights into Literary Theory and Indian Literature in English. Mar Thoma College, Thiruvalla, Kerala. 18 -19 Nov. 2008 |
| 40 | The Author as the Biographer. | UGC sponsored National Seminar on Modern Trends in Literary Theory, St. Alberts College, Ernakulam, Kerala. 13 -14 Aug. 2008 |
| 41 | We Are Translated People: Problems in the Translation of Comics and Cartoons. | National Seminar on Translation And Sign Systems. Central Institute of Indian Languages and School of letters, at School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottyam, Kerala, India. Mar 2007 |
Book & Book Chapters
- Aravind, Aju. Vihang A Naik: A Distant Voice from the Land where Sabarmati was Burned., Indian Poetry in English: In Search of Identity. Ed. R. Singh & R K Singh . New Dehli: Authorspress, Pp. 134-141. ISBN: 978-81-7273-663-7, 2012
- Aravind, Aju. “Between Ugly Faces and Innocence: Representation of the Black in Tom and Jerry Cartoons., Ed. K.V. Dominic. African and Afro-American Literature: Insights and Interpretations. Delhi: Authorspress, Pp. 320-341. ISBN: 978-81-7273-683-5, 2012
- Subverting the Sublime: Ideological Subversions and Racial Stereotypes in Popular Culture., Leipzig: Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN-10: 3843374651 ISBN-13: 978-3843374651, 2010
- Aravind, Aju. “Redeem Desecration: A Retrospective Reading of Amar Chitra Katha.”, Ed. Shraddha Kumbhojkar. 19th Century Maharashtra: A Reassessment. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pp. 70- 81. ISBN (10): 1-4438-0603-X, ISBN (13):978-1-4438-0603-9, 2009