Prof. Narayanachandran K.
Prof. Narayana Chandran K. is working as Professor, in the Department of English, School of Humanities, Central University, Hyderabad
Education:
- B.A. (1971, University of Kerala) English Language and Literature, Sociology, History of England.
- M.A. (1973, University of Kerala) English Language and Literature, American Literature, Teaching of English
- Ph.D. (1982, Indian Institute of Technology– Bombay). Dissertation on “Images of Urban- Industrial Culture in American Poetry: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg, 1920-1940.
Teaching:
Years of teaching: 45. Experience in teaching English at the undergraduate, postgraduate and research levels (compulsory survey courses, optional courses, and coursework oriented towards writing dissertations at M.A., M.Phil. & Ph. D. levels.). Experience in teaching and coördinating Remedial English, Teacher training workshops, Research Methods in English; Conducting Workshops in Critical Theory, UGC Refresher Programmes in English Pedagogy, etc.
Major Areas of Specialization:
American and British Literatures; English in India: History and Pedagogy; New Literatures in English; English Criticism and Theory.
Minor Specialization: Translation Studies, Intertextuality and intergenres, Short Narrative Forms including short fiction, Reading Theories, Malayalam Literature and Culture, Literacy Studies, Indian aesthetic theories, Allusion and intertextuality, English research in India—Institutional history and Politics.
Positions held:
- Course Associate in English, IIT-Bombay, 1975-1980
- Lecturer in English, St. Berchmans’ College Kerala, 1982-1985
- Lecturer in English Literature, CIE&FL, 1985-1986
- Lecturer in English, University of Hyderabad, 1986-1987
- UGC Career Award, 1992-1995
- Reader in English, University of Hyderabad, 1987 –1998
- Professor of English, University of Hyderabad, 1998 -- 2016
- Head, Dept. of English; Chair, Board of Studies, UoH, 2001― 2004.
- Principal Investigator/Coordinator, UGC’s DRS Project on English in India, Department of English, University of Hyderabad (1995, 2005 –– 2009)
- Professor of English (on Re-employment), 2016 ―
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
- Singer in the City: Studies in Modern American Poetry. Hyderabad: American Studies Research Centre, 1987.
- (Co-ed.) Literature and Popular Culture (A Festschrift for Isaac Sequeira). Hyderabad: Cauvery, 1990.
- (Co-ed.) Keynotes: Modern Poems in English. Madras: Macmillan India, 1996.
- (Ed.) Lifelines: Modern Poems in English. Madras: Emerald, 1996.
- Romeoyum Juliyetum (Translation of the Shakespeare play in Malayalam) (Kottayam: DC Books, 2000).
- Co-ed) Course # 422. Literary Translation. (Centre for Distance Education, University of Hyderabad, 2002).
- Editor: DA/Datta: Teaching The Waste Land (Hyderabad: CIEFL, 2001)
- Editor: Texts and their Worlds. Hyderabad: Foundation Books, 2005.
- Why Stories? Speculative Essays. (Sambalpur University Research Monograph, 2012).
- And Gladly Teach? The Professional Fate of English in India (C K Seshadri Memorial Inaugural Lecture, Baroda University, 2017)
Essays/Research Articles and Notes:
More than hundred and fifty research papers/ chapters in Indian journals, books, and journals/compendia abroad such as American Literature; American Notes & Queries; Classical and Modern Literature: A Quarterly; English Language Notes; ETC: A Review of General Semantics; Journal of Modern Literature; Journal of Reading; The Midwest Quarterly; Nebraska English Journal; Notes on American Literature; Pacific Coast Philology, Papers on Language and Literature; Paideuma; Pedagogy; Radical Teacher; The Robert Frost Studies; South Asian Review; Studies in American Culture, Studies in Short Fiction; T. S. Eliot Newsletter; Verbatim: The Language Quarterly; Walt Whitman Quarterly Review; Weber Studies; World Literature Today; Yeats-Eliot Review; The Walt Whitman Encyclopedia (all U. S A.); Ariel, The Quint (Canada); Anglia;Archiv (Germany); Revista di Literature Moderne e Comparate (Italy); The British Fantasy Society Journal, The Cambridge Quarterly; Changing English; Comparative Critical Studies; English in Education; Notes & Queries; Yeats Annual #10 (allU.K); Kyushu American Literature (Japan); English Studies; Neophilologus (Holland);Studia Anglica Posnaniensia (Poland); Orbis Litterarum (Denmark); Hermēneus (Spain).
Translations into and from Malayalamand English:
one play each of William Shakespeare and Harold Pinter, besides essays, stories and poems; essays, and reviews in Malayalam and English in several periodicals in India and abroad. Over 40 English reviews in various professional journals and annuals
Scholarships, Awards/Academic Distinctions:
- Joan Elliott Gold Medal for English Literature (CMS College, Kerala, 1971.);
- Junior Research Associateship, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1975-1980);
- Research Scholarship in Humanities, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1981-1982);
- The UGC Career Award for Middle Level Teachers (1992-1995);
- Listed in the Directory of Scholars: Classical and Modern Literature—A Quarterly (CML Inc. Indiana 47808-0629) 1994-1997;
- Senior Fulbright Fellowship, Stanford University, 1999, etc.
Official Address:
Professor of English,
School of Humanities
Central University PO
Hyderabad- 500 046.
Residential Address:
Flat # 203, Gharonda Seshasai Apts., (12-5-33/1/A), Vijaypuri, Lallaguda P.O., Secunderabad- 500 017.
Phone: 09985531855, 040- 27017528(R),040-23133409(Off)
E-Mail: narayanc@yahoo.com,chandran.english@aol.in,narayana.chandran@gmail.com