Research Publications

International Journals

  • “Gender Construct as a Narrative and Text: The Female Protagonist in New Generation Malayalam Cinema”.      In collaboration with Dr. Sony Jalarajan Raj. South Asian Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 2015. DOI: 10.1080/14746689.2014.1000648.http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rsap20
  • “Dissent and Displacement of Subalternity in Malayalam Cinema: A Cultural Analysis of Papilio Buddha by Jayan Cheriyan” In collaboration with Dr Sony J Raj and Dr Rohini Sreekumar. Journal of Creative Communications. Sage, July 2016. DOI: 10.1177/0973258616644814.
  • “Appropriating Bodies: Discourses on Nationalism in India”. HyperCultura 6:1, June 2017 pp.1-12.
  • “Heterotopic Assemblages within Religious Structures: Ganesh Utsav and the Streets of Mumbai.” Open Cultural Studies, 3: 2019 pp. 96-106 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2019-0009
  • “Negotiating Spaces and Voicing Resistance: Nireeksha and Women’s Theatre in India.” Indian Theatre Journal, 2:1-2, 1 Dec 2019,  https://doi.org/10.1386/itj.2.1-2.19_1.
  • “Gendered Spaces Captured in Cultural Representations: Conceptualising the Indian Experience in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness,”  Humanities, 9:2, 2020, MDPI. doi:10.3390/h9010002.
  • Swapna Gopinath, “Manifestations of Microfascism in Spatial Dimensions: A Study on Mumbai’s Public Spaces,” Lateral 9.1, 2020. https://doi.org/10.25158/L9.1.2
  • “Topicality of Historicals”. With Rutuja Deshmukh. Economic and Political Weekly. 57: 20, 2022. https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/20/postscript/topicality-historicals.html
  • “Waves across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire”. Journal of Global South Studies. 39:1. 2022. https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/JGSS/article/view/1923
  • “New Celebratory Sites for the Hindu Males”. Economic and Political Weekly. 57:48, 2022. https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/48/postscript/new-celebratory-sites-hindu-male.html
  • “When Chatbots Converse: Reflections and Apprehensions”. Economic and Political Weekly. 58:17, 2023. https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/17/postscript/when-chatbots-converse.html
  • “Mortality Narratives in Cultural Representations: Themes and Tropes in Malayalam Cinema”. CineJ Cinema Journal. 11 (1):89-114, 2023. DOI: 10.5195/cinej.2023.462
  • “The Storyteller and the Afternoon Naps: Reflecting on a Nanpakal Mayakkom”. FIPRESCI-India E-Journal. https://fipresci-india.org/
  • “Family Entertainers and Malayalam Cinema’s Encounters with Fascism: Reading the Films of Sathyan Anthikad”. Jumpcut: A Review of Contemporary Media. 62. Winter. 2023-24. https://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/SwapnaGopinath/index.html
  • “Apolitical heroes, Hegemonic masculinities and the Citizen in Popular Hindi Cinema”.  In National Identities. Ed. Goutam Karmakar and Pippa Catterall.
  • Book Reviews
  • “Historicizing Hindutva Ideology: From Ancient to Contemporary Times.” Cultural Politics. 18:3 2022. Pp. 484-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-9964927
  • “Sivasundaram, Sujit. Waves across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire.” Genocide Studies International. Journal of Global South Studies 39:1. 2022. Pp. 250-51 https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/JGSS/article/view/1923
  • “Ronan Lee.  Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech.” 14: 2. 2022. Pp.191-2 https://doi.org/10.3138/GSI-2022-0001 https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/GSI-2022-0001
  • “Samhita Sunya.  Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema Via Bombay.”  Film Quarterly.  76:4. 2022. Pp. 106-7. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.4.106https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/article-abstract/76/4/106/196287/Review-Sirens-of-Modernity-World-Cinema-via-Bombay?redirectedFrom=PDF
  • “Amitav Ghosh. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.” Changing Societies and Personalities. 2023.  https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2023.7.1.227 https://changing-sp.com/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/393

National Journals

  • “Codes of Indianness in Diasporic Writing” Literary Insight, A Refereed International Journal ISSN 0975-6248. Volume-3, Issue-1, January 2012.
  • “Redefining Masculinities and the Transnational Hero in Popular Indian Cinema” Littcrit, ISSN 0970-6249, Volume-38, Number 2, Issue-74, Dec 2012.
  • “Images of Transnationalism in Multicultural Spaces” Teresian Journal of English Studies, ISSN 0975-6302. Volume-4, Issue -1, October 2012
  • “The Transnational Identity of the Indian as Reflected in Indian Travelogues: A Culture Studies Perspective” English Activities Update, ISSN 0976-3643, Volume-3, Number-2, July 2012.
  • “Tracing the History of a War-torn Land: A Study of Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns” Indian Review of World Literature in English, ISSN 0974- 097X. Volume-9, Number – 1, January 2013.
  • “Negotiating Personal and Collective Memories of Loss and Destruction in Trauma Narratives: A Culture Studies perspective” Research Scholar, A Refereed International Journal ISSN 2320 – 6101. Volume-2, Issue-II, May 2013.
  • “Diasporic Perspective on Subalternity and Voices of Dissent in the Homeland: A Culture Studies Reading of the Film Papilio Buddha”. Literary Insight. A Refereed International Journal ISSN 0975-6248. Volume-6, January 2015.
  • “Encoding Ancient Indian Materialistic Philosophy in Children’s Literature: A Reading of The Panchatantra”. Research Scholar, A Refereed International Journal ISSN 2320 – 6101. Volume-3, Issue-III, Aug 2015.
  • “Transnational Music for the Global Market: A Culture Studies Perspective”. Littcrit, ISSN 0970-6249, Volume-43, Number 1, Issue-83, June 2017.
  • Constructing Myths through Coding: A Study on Idealized Body Images and Indian Women”. International Journal of English Language and Literature. ISSN 2321-7065 Volume-5, Issue -12. December 2017.
  • “Building Bridges through Religious Ritualism: A Study of Indian Hindu Diaspora”. Veda’s Journal of English Language and Literature. ISSN 2349-9753 Volume-4 Issue 4 December 2017.
  • “Spiritual Dimension in the Novels of O V Vijayan.” Asian Journal of English Studies, Vol 7, Issue 4, Oct 2018, pp.35-49.

Chapter in Edited Works

International
  • “Ecofeminist Moorings in Globalized India: Literary Discourse and Interpretations”. In collaboration with  Sony Jalarajan Raj, and Soumya Jose . Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersectional and International Voices. Eds. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sam Mickey. ISBN 978-0-8153-8172-3 Routledge: 2018.
  • “Hypermasculine Images and the Hindu Identity in Malayalam Cinema” in The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities (edited by Hatola Outi et al.) Lexington Books: 2021.
  • “Imagining Identities amidst Shifting Spatialities in Amitav Ghosh’s Shadow Lines in Culture Chromosome (edited by Alessandro Vescovi) Brill: 2021.
  • “Lives of Precarity in the age of Neoliberalism: The Tales Untold” in an edited work titled. Breaking Down Joker: Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy (edited by Sean Redmond)
  • “Absences and Solitude: Representation of Older Women and their Ecosystem within Select Works of Indian Women Novelists.” In Transitional Female Being: An Ecocritical Politics of Peri/Post/Menopause. By Nicole Anae.
national
  • “The Dialectic between National and Global Identities: A Study of Indian Travelogues” Published in Indian Literary Historiography and Counter Currents in Postcoloniality. Eds. Asha Susan Jacob and Tom Thomas. ISBN 978-81-7821-436-8 Published by Postgraduate Department of English, St. Thomas College, Kozhencherry. 
  • “Carnivalesque Narratives on Social Discourses in a Globalized India: A Culture Studies Perspective”. Humour: Texts, Contexts. Eds. P P Ajayakumar et al. ISBN 978-81-8043-117-3. New Delhi: Creative Publishers, 2015.
  • “Chinese American Diaspora Literature: A Brief Introduction”. Published in Imagin(ing) the Diaspora: Critical Responses to Asian Diasporic Art and Literature. Ed. Jamuna, B S. Published by UGC-SAP, Institute of English, University of Kerala, Trivandrum.
  • “Multiple Identities of Pakistani Diaspora”. Published in Imagin(ing) the Diaspora: Critical Responses to Asian Diasporic Art and Literature. Ed. Jamuna, B S. Published by UGC-SAP, Institute of English, University of Kerala, Trivandrum.
Books
  • The Dialectic of Historicity in Modernist Fiction: A Study Based on the Select Works of O V Vijayan and M Mukundan. ISBN 1781-5437-0072-5 Partridge Publishers. Pgs.162
  • Co-authored a textbook, on Communication Skills in English, selected for study (at UG level) in University of Kerala, for students of both Arts and Science streams.
  • Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India: Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinema. Edited book on Historicals in popular Hindi cinema by Routledge, published in December 2022 (co-edited by Ms. Rutuja Deshmukh).
BLOGS
  • “The Importance of Hashtag Activism and Speaking up by Women in the Indian Context”. Women’s Web. Dec 04 2017. womensweb.in
  • “As 2017 Draws to a Close, Let’s See Why the #Metoo Campaign Matters So Much”. Women’s Web. Dec 20 2017. Womensweb.in
  • “Misogyny in Malayalam Cinema: Why the Women in Cinema Collective is Striking Fear”. Women’s Web.  June 29 2018. Womensweb.in
  • “Kerala’s ‘Good Women’ Protesting the SC Sabarimala Verdict Further Divisive Politics and Misogyny”. Women’s Web. Oct 11 2018.  https://www.womensweb.in/2018/10/kulasthree-kerala-women-protesting-sabarimala-verdict-oct18wk2sr/
  • “The Art of Growing Old and the Art of Dying.” Women’s Web. Dec 03 2018. Women’s Web.  https://www.womensweb.in/2018/12/the-art-of-growing-old-and-the-art-of-dying-dec18wk2sr/
  • “The Story of Two Protests in the Wake of Sabarimala : A Few Questions.”  Women’s Web. Dec 28 2018. https://www.womensweb.in/2018/12/the-story-of-two-protests-in-the-wake-of-sabarimala-a-few-questions/
  • “Death of secular and democratic India.” Countercurrents.org. 13 Nov 2019. https://countercurrents.org/2019/11/death-of-secular-and-democratic-india
  • “A Sisterhood of Dancing Moms in Kerala Reminds us Female Friendships Matter”.            Women’s Web. Nov 21 2019.  https://www.womensweb.in/2019/11/sisterhood-dancing-moms-kerala-female-friendships-nov19wk4mad/
  • “The Violence of Silence”. People’s Review.in 21 Nov 2019.  https://www.peoplesreview.in/opinion/2019/11/the-violence-of-silence-kashmir-and-india/
  • “Being Political in Class Rooms.” Countercurrents.org. 02 Dec 2019. https://countercurrents.org/2019/12/being-political-in-class-rooms
  • “Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, and the Fall of India.” People’s Review.in. 14 Dec 2019.  https://www.peoplesreview.in/opinion/2019/12/citizenship-amendment-act-2019-and-the-fall-of-india/
  • “Resisting the Footfalls of a Genocide.” Countercurrents.org. 22 Dec 2019. https://countercurrents.org/2019/12/resisting-the-footfalls-of-a-genocide
  •  “No to Segregation of Muslims, Yes to a Diverse and Plural India that Empowers and Articulates Dissent.” People’s Review.in. 01 Jan 2020. https://www.peoplesreview.in/opinion/2020/01/support-diverse-plural-india/
  • “Dissent in the Times of Covid-19”. People’s Review.in. 27 March 2020.  https://www.peoplesreview.in/opinion/2020/03/dissent-in-the-times-of-covid-19/
  • “Confronting the Crisis of Internally Displaced Indians”. Countercurrents.org. 30 March 2020. https://countercurrents.org/2020/03/confronting-the-crisis-of-internally-displaced-indians
  • “Microfascisms and Microfreedoms: Home”. FemAsia. 25 Oct. 2021. https://femasiamagazine.com/microfreedoms-and-microfascisms/
  • “When Gangubhai becomes Gangubhai”. FemAsia. 25 July 2022. https://femasiamagazine.com/when-gangubai-becomes-gangubhai-the-politics-of-apolitical-films/
  • “Silence of Shame” FemAsia. Sept 2022.  https://femasiamagazine.com/silence-of-shame/
  • “Pilgrimages and Travel Memories.” FemAsia. Oct 2022. https://femasiamagazine.com/pilgrimages-and-travel-memories/
  • “When your Toddler becomes your Mentor”. FemAsia. Nov 2023. https://femasiamagazine.com/when-your-toddler-becomes-your-mentor-reflections/
  • “A Poor Substitute.” Op. Ed. The Telegraph.Online. 18 Aug 2023. https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/poor-substitute-ai-tools-like-chatgpt-are-here-to-stay/cid/1952759
  • “Reflections on Independence Day”. Countercurrents.org. Aug 2023. https://countercurrents.org/2023/08/reflections-on-independence-day/
  • Texts/Chapters Prescribed by Universities (Undergraduate Programs)
  • “What is Literature” (Kannur University) (https://freereads854632715.wordpress.com/2020/10/04/what-is-literature/)
  • “What is Literature” (Jammu University)
  • “What is Literature” (University of Kerala)
  • Language Skills: A Course on Communication Skills in English (Co-edited)

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