Name: Dr. Boopathi P Designation: Assistant Professor Phone: +91-9843693951 Email:pboopathi@cutn.ac.in
Biographic Sketch:
Dr. Boopathi P is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at the Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India. He teaches and researches in the areas, such as Refugee Literature, Life Writing Studies, Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, and Cultural Studies. He taught at Aligarh Muslim University for three years prior to his appointment at CUTN. He is the Expert member in the State Welfare Board for People with Disabilities, Government of Tamil Nadu, India. He holds doctoral degree from The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad in the area of Palestinian refugee life narratives. His articles have appeared in journals such as Life Writing, Biography, Comedy Studies, Peace Review, IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, The Lion and the Unicorn, and Literature and Aesthetics, and he has contributed chapters to edited volumes published by Routledge, Peter Lang, among others. Dr. Boopathi has been funded by the New Literary Observer, Moscow, the European University in St. Petersburg, and the German Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland, to present his research papers at their conferences. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Siedlce, Poland from 09 to 13 June 2025 under Erasmus+ fellowship. He has widely lectured upon invitation in various universities and colleges in India and abroad in the areas of Disability Studies and Refugee Literature.
Research Highlights :
Dr. Boopathi welcomes proposals to work on the epistemology of marginalized produced through varied forms of life writing. He is particularly interested in the articulation of embodiment and experience of marginalized subjects in various genres of life writing. The question that he seeks to explore in his research is how the life writing of marginalized emerged after 1980s tend to re-present the community at large. This shift in literary production, as he believes, re-configures the literary writings of the present millennium to be more of experiential rather than imaginative.
Recent Publications :
Articles in Journals
“Exploring the Relationship between the Adult and the Child: A Heterological Analysis of Maaya-Lokam: Russian Ezhuthukaarudae Kutti-Kathakal.” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 48, no. 3, 2024, pp. 319–32. (AHCI and Scopus) (Co-authored with Arun Abraham Varghese).
“Review of Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness by Shahd Alshammari.” Literature and Aesthetics, vol. 36, no. 1, 2026, pp. 272-273. (WoS and ESCI)
"‘Reading through Embossed Letters’: The State of Education for the Blind in Colonial India." Proceedings of the South Indian History Congress, vol. 43, 2025, pp. 1–7. Journal of the South Indian History Congress, journal.southindianhistorycongress.org/show_article.php?atl_id=MTQwNQ==.
“Navigating Refugeedom: Place Attachment and Identity Negotiations of Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in Vanni: A Family’s Struggle through the Sri Lankan Conflict (2019).” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2025, pp. 1-19. Taylor and Francis, https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2025.2552256. (Scopus) (Co-authored with T. Jenisha).
“Children under Occupation: Conflicts, Camps and Agential Identity in Ghassan Kanafani’s Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories.” Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, 2025, pp. 1-12. Intellect Books, https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00133_1. (Scopus) (co-authored with T. S. Gangothri).
“Kindergarten and the Concept of Regimented Time: An Analysis of Going to Kindergarten and Lucy & Tom: At School.” Literature & Aesthetics, Vol 35, No 1, 2025, 100-107. (WoS and ESCI) co-authored with Arun Abraham Varghese.
“Defying Ableism, Countering Normalcy: An Intersectional Analysis of Malini Chib’s One Little Finger.” Literature & Aesthetics, Vol 34, No 3, 2024, 25-33. (WoS and ESCI) (co-authored with Devika T. R.)
“The Uncomfortable Joke: Disability Humour as Sub-Cultural Resistance in Indian Stand-up Comedy.” Comedy Studies, pp. 1–19. Taylor and Francis, https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2025.2466326. (Scopus) (co-authored with Devika T. R.)
“Disability as Intersectional Identity: Some Reflections on Indian Disabled Life Narratives.” Biography, vol. 46, no. 3, 2023, pp. 489–505. (AHCI, Scopus and WoS)
“Gender, Identity and Conflict: Militant Women and Feminist Assertion in In the Shadow of a Sword: The Memoir of a Woman Leader in the LTTE by Thamizhini.” IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, vol 9, no. 1, 2024, https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.9.1.04. (Scopus) (co-authored with T. Jenisha).
“Humanizing the Line: Indo-Pak Border in Ashvin Kumar’s Little Terrorist.” Peace Review, 2024, pp. 1–10. Taylor and Francis, https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2024.2356857. (Scopus) (Co-authored with T.S. Gangothri).
Chapters in Edited Volumes
“Dying with Dignity: Religious, Legal and Ethical Implications of the Euthanasia Debate in India.” The Circle of Life — Birth, Dying, and the Liminality of Life in Modern Times, edited by Florian Greiner and Michael Zok, Rombach Wissenschaft – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2024, pp. 191–214. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.5771/9783988580641-191.
“Intersecting Terrains of Personal and Politics: An Arab Feminist Reading of Fadwa Tuqan’s A Mountainous Journey.” Writing Gender Writing Self: Memory, Memoir and Autobiography, edited by AparnaLanjewar Bose, New York, Routledge, 2020. ISBN: 978-0-367-53449.
“Creating an Accessible and Resilient Environment inside the Indian University.” Disability and University:A Disabled Students Manifesto, edited by Christopher McMaster and Benjamin Whitburn, 2nd ed, New York, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2025. ISBN: 978-1433167805. (Co-authored with K. Muruganandan).
