Educational Qualification
M.A English ( University of Kerala)
NET English ( UGC)
Ph.D English ( University of Kerala)
Employment History
Asst. Professor at SNGS College, Pattambi(25-01-2012
to 20-06-2013)
Asst. Professor at Govt Arts and Science College, Chelakkara(16-06-2015
to 12-06-2017)
Asst. Professor at Maharaja's College, Ernakulam(03-09-2021
)
Asst. Professor at Govt College, Kasaragod(27-06-2011
to 24-01-2012)
Asst. Professor at Maharaja's College, Ernakulam(21-06-2013
to 15-06-2015)
Asst. Professor at Govt College Madappally(13-06-2017
to 02-09-2021)
Associate Professor at Maharaja's College, Ernakulam(27-06-2023
)
Achievements
FLAIR International Fellow
Higher Education FLAIR International Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University UK
Teaching Interest
Film Studies.
Cultural Studies
Literary theory & criticism.
Fiction.
Poetry
Research Interest
Film and Cultural Studies.
Fiction Studies
Doctoral Thesis Under Supervision
Doctoral Thesis Under Supervised
Publications
“G. Aravindan’s Cinematic Oeuvre: Alternate Aesthetics of the Third Cinema of Contemplation”, Smitha M., Littcrit, Vol 47. No 2. Issue 92, December 2021, 120-129, 2022
“Aesthetics and Experience: Spatio-temporal (Dis)locations in Postcolonial Trauma Cinema, Smitha M, Authorspress, India” Dialectics of Trauma: Experience and Language. Edited by Lekshmi R.Nair., 98-111, 2022
“The Invisible Women: The Abject Aging Female in Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour, Smitha M., Drishti: the Sight, Vol 10, Issue II, November, 2021 – April 2022, 143-147, 2022
“Mobilities of Trauma: Spatiotemporal Cartographies of Trauma and Affect”, Smitha M, Honey Sabu and Seenia Tom Kanady., Unclaimed Experiences and Forbidden Zones., 282-297, 2018
“Casting Caste: Dalit Spaces in Malayalam Cinema”, Smitha M, P.Usha, Moving the Centre: Black and Dalit Literatures., 170-175, 2016
“On the Move: Spatiality of Kitchen and Travel Cookery Shows by Women on Television”., Smitha M., Discourses Xavierian Research Journal, Vol 3. No 1 March 2015, 87-96, 2015
"Ideology and the Text:The Image and the Object in Shekhar Kapoor's Bandit Queen.", Smitha M., Littcrit, Issue-69 / volume-36 / number-1 / jun -2010, 105-113, 2022
“Rising Out of the Ashes: The Indomitable in Mahasweta Devi's Rudali and Mother of 1084"., Smitha M., Littcrit, Issue-64 / volume-33 / number-2 / dec 2007, 90-97, 2007
"Brahmanic Hegemony and Stardom in Malayalam Movies”, Smitha M, Flashes and Images., Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha, 2006
Anthropocenic Turn and Green Cultural Studies : A Reading of Select Texts from Kerala, Lakshmi Sukumar, Smitha M, Anhad Lok, 10, 76-81, 2024
,2349-137X.
Framing the Anthropocene: Ecological Meditations in 'Avasavyuham: The Arbit Documentation of An Amphibian Hunt', Urmila K, Smitha M, Chalachitra Sameeksha, 8.7, 57-67, 2024
,2584-1173.
Aesthetics of Protest: ‘Shaheenbaghing’ India, Lakshmi Sukumar, Smitha M, Inclusive, 2.25, 334-346, 2024
,2278-9758.
Creolization, Geography, and Memory in M. Mukundan’s On the Banks of Mayyazhi, Smitha M, Lakshmi Sukumar, Malayalam Literary Survey, 44.2, 17-23, 2024
,2319-3271.