Dr. B. J. Geetha

Dr. B. J. Geetha

Name: Dr. B. J. Geetha
Designation: Professor
Phone: 04366-277290
Email: geethabj@cutn.ac.in

 

Biographic Sketch:
Dr. B.J. Geetha has been serving as a professor and held the position of Head of the Department of English Studies from 2022 until November 14, 2025. In addition, she has been appointed as the Chief Warden and OBC Liaison Officer at Central University of Tamil Nadu from 2024 to the present. With 24 years of experience in teaching, she has made notable contributions to academia, including the publication of two books, editing one book and two journals, and authoring 70 research articles in UGC CARE-listed, peer-reviewed, and Scopus-indexed journals with an impact factor. She successfully completed a UGC-funded project and has presented academic and research papers at both national and international conferences. Furthermore, she has been an editorial member of several international journals. Her academic journey includes visiting institutions such as the University of Ghana, Legon, and Universiti Putra Malaysia in Malaysia to present her papers. She has been invited to give talks as a resource person in various national and international conferences, workshops, Faculty Development Programs, and Refresher courses. Over the years, she has guided 48 postgraduate students, 24 M.Phil. candidates, and 4 Ph.D. scholars in emerging and advanced research areas. She was recognized as the Best Woman Researcher through a special jury award by the BODHI International journal in collaboration with the American College, Madurai, in 2021 for her significant research contributions. Additionally, she received the Eminent Academic Award in the professor category on August 24, 2024, from the Root International Academic and Research Excellence Awards 2024 in acknowledgment of her exceptional performance in administration, teaching, research, and publication.

   
Research Highlights :

The research domain engages with inquiries on popular culture, inclusive society, gender stereotyping ,gender claiming and disclaiming, postfeminist perspectives, the voice of children and their significance in the ever-mutative world of futuristic anxieties, posthuman dilemma and ethics, and the paradigm drifts in the canonical ideologies in drama, postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, gender studies, and posthumanism.



Recent Publications :

1.Geetha B J(2018)An Exploration and Equation of Canadian Prairie Landscape with Metaphorical Wilderness in Aritha Van Herk’s No Fixed Address- Bodhi-2018 Bodhi International Peer Reviewed Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science E-ISSN 2456-5571,  Special Issue 10 ,(323-330 ).

2. Geetha B J (July 2018). Dislocated Identity and Cross-cultural Conflict in Bharathi Mukerjee’s Jasmine- IJELLH International Peer –reviewed Journal of English Language and Literature in Humanities Indexed, Peer Reviewed (refereed), UGC Approved Journal  ISSN-23217065,  Serial No-43079 ,Vol-6, Issue 7  (557-570).

3.Maria Jennifer Liny U., Geetha B J ( January 2019)The Unification of Family through food in Afghan Culture in the select novels of Khaled Hosseini -Language in India, UGC approved journal, serial no: 49042- ISSN 1930- 2940, Special Issue, (322-326).

4.Maria Jennifer Liny U., Geetha B J(2020)Depiction of Culture and Identity of Afghanistan Depicted in the Novels of Khaled Hosseini- Infokara Research Journal, International journal with impact factor-5.3(390-400) Volume 9, Issue 3, ISSN NO: 1021-9056.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fnfxeD8Sew6x_OqJzAv3W67rMPfqibxN

5.Joshua Gnanaraj., Geetha B J(2020)Altering Behaviours Through Poetry: An Analysis of Select Poems by Mary Ann Lamb, PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/ Egypotology, PJAEE,17(11) ISSN 1567-214x. SJR, Scimago journal, Scopus indexed. https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/5650 (377-379).

6.Geetha B J (July 2021) Graphical and Structural Exploration in Joseph Lambert’s Annie Sullivan and The Trials of Helen Keller- Bodhi International Peer Reviewed Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science , an Online Peer Reviewed, Refereed Quarterly Journal  E-ISSN 2456-5571(60-65).

7.Geetha B J (July-December 2021)The Cornucopia of Food Imageries as Female Confinement and Empowerment: A Gender Prescription in Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate, Caraivéti Démarche de sagesse Peer Reviewed and Refereed Biannual International Journal- UGC CARE Listed Journal ,Vol. V Issue 1 ISSN : 2456-9690(25-35).

8.Geetha B J,(February 2022) Traumatic Memory of Partition and Decoding the Stimuli of Cataclysmic Narration in the Select Short Stories of Saadat Hassan Manto in Roots International Journal of Multidisciplinary Researches -A Peer Reviewed, Refereed and Quarterly (44-52).

9.Radhika Padmanaban., Geetha B J(July-December 2022 3(2SE)In the Angst of The Invisible Existence: Mirroring the Existential Dilemma Using Bodily Metaphors in the Selected Poems of Jayanta Mahapatra and Keki N Daruwalla published in ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts is a half-yearly journal of visual and performing arts, UGC Care Listed Journal (96-103).

DoI- https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v3.i2SE.2022.252.

10.Radhika Padmanaban., Geetha B J(April 2023)On ‘Being’ Possessed: A Re-Reading of G Aravindan’s Kummaty Using Foucauldian Notions of Power, Knowledge, and Discourse –Bodhi International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science vol 7, No 3(70-77)E-ISSN: 2456-5571.



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