Dr NAYANA GEORGE
MA, PhD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MA, PhD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Articles in Journals
| Sl.No. | Title | Name of Journal / Vol. No. / Issue No. / Page Nos | ISSN No. | Date Published |
| 1 | Art and its Interpretation | Economic and Political Weekly / 56 / 43 / 4 - 5 | 0012-9976 | 23-Oct-2021 |
| 2 | Consuming Identities in Foodways | Economic and Political Weekly / 57 / 16 / 65 - 66 | 0012-9976 | 16-Apr-2022 |
| 3 | The Instability of the World: The Examination of Paranoia and Conspiracy in The Crying of Lot 49 | IUP Journal of English Studies / 16 / 4 / 59 - 67 | 0973-3728 | 31-Dec-2021 |
| 4 | Identity in Consumption: Reading Food and Intersectionality in Anita Desai?s Fasting, Feasting | Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities / 14 / 2 / 1 - 10 | 0975-2935 | 26-Jun-2022 |
| 5 | Commensality and Togetherness in Becky Chambers The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies / 32 / 2 / 621 - 633 | 1304-0057 | 31-Dec-2022 |
| 6 | Race and Borders in Marvel Studios The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences / 14 / 1 / 127 - 138 | 2069-1025 | 20-May-2023 |
| 7 | Exploring Cross-cultural Comfort Food Narratives in Beryl Shereshewsky's YouTube Videos | Journal of Creative Communications / / / 1 - 14 | 0973-2594 | 27-May-2023 |
| 8 | Memories of Trips and Tea: Sips of Remembrance in Rishad Saam Mehta's Hot Tea Across India | Literary Voice / 1 / 17 / 194 - 200 | 2277-4521 | 31-Mar-2022 |
| 9 | Identities At The Dinner Table: Commensality, Self-Perception, And Relationships In Anne Cherian?S A Good Indian Wife | Studies in Linguistics, Culture and FLT / 12 / 3 / 154 - 169 | 2534-9538 | 09-Dec-2024 |
Participation in Seminars/Conferences/Symposium
| Sl.No. | Name of the Conference /Seminar /Symposium | Type of Program | Title of the Article | Role | Venue/Place | Date |
| 1 | Golden Jubilee International Conference on ?Digital Humanities in the 21st century: Understanding Human Machine interface and the Dawn of Posthumanism" | CONFERENCES | The Advent of the Post-Human Era | PRESENTER) | Bharat Mata CollegeErnakulam. Kerala | 28/07/2020 |
| 2 | International Conference on ?Multiple Dimensions of South Asian Literary Imagination: Classic to Contemporary? a | CONFERENCES | Fables of the East and the West: The Crow in the Panchatantra and the Aesop?s Fables | PRESENTER) | Yonphula Centenary College, BhutanBhutan | 10/09/2020 |
| 3 | Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Golden Jubilee International Conference ?Electronic Textual Cultures: A Study of Digital Literature and Literature in Digital Spaces? | CONFERENCES | Commensality and Togetherness in Becky Chambers? The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | PRESENTER) | The English and Foreign Languages University, HyderabadHyderabad, Telangana | 09/03/2021 |
| 4 | International Conference: Food in/of Pandemic | CONFERENCES | Humanity in Consumption: Reading the Presence and Absence of Food in Jose Saramago?s Blindness | PRESENTER) | Bengaluru, Karnataka | 06/05/2021 |
| 5 | Melange 2021 International Conference on Memory and Narrativization | CONFERENCES | PARTICIPANT) | Bengaluru, Karnataka | 15/04/2021 | |
| 6 | National Conference in Contemporary Perspectives in English Language, Literature and Cultural Studies | CONFERENCES | Identity in Consumption: Reading Food and Intersectionality in Anita Desai?s Fasting, Feasting | PRESENTER) | Chandigarh UniversityChandigarh, India | 11/06/2021 |
| 7 | International Workshop on Food, Memory, Machines | SYMPOSIUM | Cooking Tales: The Narrative Function of Food in Bulbul Sharma?s Eating Women, Telling Lies | PRESENTER) | IIT MadrasChennai, Tamil Nadu | 17/08/2021 |
| 8 | National Symposium cum Workshop on Translation in the Indian Scenario: Practices and Promises in the 2lst Century | SYMPOSIUM | PARTICIPANT) | Bengaluru | 09/10/2023 | |
| 9 | Let us Dream 2020 Triennial International Virtual Conference | CONFERENCES | PARTICIPANT) | Bengaluru | 20/11/2020 | |
| 10 | Literatures from Indian Subcontinent: A Review from Different Dimensions | SEMINARS | Fanaa in Tukaram?s Poetry | PRESENTER) | Iswar Saran P.G. College, Prayagraj, UPPrayagraj | 08/01/2021 |
| 11 | Aesthetica 2021: Reimagining the Arts and the Artists | CONFERENCES | PARTICIPANT) | Bengaluru | 25/01/2021 | |
| 12 | Fortell 22 International Conference | CONFERENCES | Love, Life, and Food Intersections in Modern Love Mumbai | PRESENTER) | Christ Academy Institute for Advanced StudiesBengaluru | 13/07/2022 |
| 13 | National Conference on The Confluence of Literature, History and Culture: Negotiating Differences through Intercultural Dialogue and Third Space | CONFERENCES | Food Stories Across the World: Exploring Cross-Cultural Comfort Food Narratives in Select YouTube Videos | PRESENTER) | St. Xaviers College, Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu | 23/01/2024 |
| 14 | Cityscapes: Interstices of Space and Memory, Retelling Metropolitan Chronotopes | CONFERENCES | Flavours of Love and Affection in the City of Dreams: Reading the City through Food in Modern Love Mumbai | PRESENTER) | Kristu Jayanti College, Autonomous, Bengaluru, KarnatakaBengaluru | 09/11/2023 |
| 15 | International Conference on Contemporary Perspectives in English Language, Literature and Cultural Studies 2024 | CONFERENCES | Consuming Abject Gender Identities: Exploring Food and Waste in Eating Women Telling Tales | PRESENTER) | Chandigarh University in collaboration with University of AlcalaChandigarh | 13/09/2024 |
| 16 | Pre-Vachana Series of Vachana: Annual International Conference on "Contemporary Discourses on Displacement and Identity | CONFERENCES | MODERATOR) | CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bannerghatta Road Campus, Bangalore | 28/11/2024 | |
| 17 | Vachana: Annual International Conference on "Contemporary Discourses on Displacement and Identity | CONFERENCES | Vachana: Annual International Conference on "Contemporary Discourses on Displacement and Identity | PARTICIPANT) | CHRIST (Deemed to be University)CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bannerghatta Road Campus, Bangalore | 13/02/2025 |
| 18 | One-Day National Seminar on “Gendered Narratives: Power, Identity, and Resistance” | SEMINARS | Kitchens, Compartments, and Counter-Spaces: Reading Food and Gendered Spatiality in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupé | PRESENTER) | NAM College, KallikkandyKallikkandy | 16/12/2025 |
| 19 | Planet LangLit 2026 | CONFERENCES | Reading the City as a Site of Memory and Waste: Memoryscapes in Kamila Shamsie's Kartography | PRESENTER) | Green University of BangladeshBangladesh | 15/01/2026 |
Invited Talks
| Sl.No. | Titel of the Program | Name of the Program | Date | Name of the Institution |
| 1 | Professional Communication for Academics at Workplace and Beyond | 3 Day FDP on Professional Communication | 29/07/2025 | MVJ College of Engineering, Bangalore |
MPhil/PhD Guided/Adjudicated
| Sl.No. | Title | Name of Student | Institution | Role | Status | Month Year |
| 1 | TANGIBLE TRAUMA: THE INTERSECTIONS OF TRAUMA, MATERIAL MEMORY, AND SPATIALITY IN SELECT EAST ASIAN SHORT FICTION | UNNIMAYA S | Christ University | SUPERVISOR | Ongoing | April 2025 |
| 2 | POSTCOLONIAL GHOSTS: EXPLORING GOTHIC, CULTURE AND OPPRESSION IN BENGALI HORROR FICTION | ANMANA BHATTACHARYA | Christ University | SUPERVISOR | Ongoing | April 2025 |
Workshop/FDP/Training programme
| Sl.No. | Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training programme | Name of Organiser | Level | Role | Date |
| 1 | Innovative Teaching through Design Thinking and Gamification | Leipzig University and German Agency for International Cooperation, Leipzig University and German Agency for Internati | International | Participant | 13/11/2025 |
| 2 | Innovative Teaching | Leipzig University and German Agency for International Cooperation, GIZ, Leipzig University, Conoscope GmbH | International | Participant | 20/10/2025 |
| 3 | Seeing Through Photographs | The Museum of Modern Art, Coursera | International | Participant | 10/09/2025 |
| 4 | AI Integration | Centre for Learning, Research and Development, Savda, Maharashtra, Centre for Learning, Research and Development, Sav | National | Participant | 25/08/2025 |
| 5 | Research Methodology | Kristu Jayanti (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Kristu Jayanti (Deemed to be University) | National | Participant | 19/08/2025 |
| 6 | Learner-Centred Andragogy, Research, and Research Writing | Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore Bannerghatta Road Campus, | Institutional | Organiser & Participant | 19/05/2025 |
| 7 | Learner-Centred Andragogy, E-Content Development, and Micro-Credentials | Schools of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and Psychological Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore Bannerghatta Road Campus, | Organiser & Participant | 24/03/2025 | |
| 8 | Navigating the Research Labyrinth: Methods for Literary & Cultural Studies? | VIT AP, VIT AP | International | Participant | 26/11/2024 |
| 9 | Precarity and Human Life: Reflections of Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Popular Culture | Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Indian Institute of Technology Patna | International | Participant | 11/11/2024 |
| 10 | Learner Centred Approach | e Schools of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and Psychological Sciences, BGR Campus, | Institutional | Organiser & Participant | 05/11/2024 |
| 11 | QIP on Enhancing Research Activities in Higher Education | IQAC, Christ (Deemed to be University), | Participant | 28/09/2024 | |
| 12 | Advancing Excellence in Higher Education: Vision, Curriculum, and Quality | Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore Bannerghatta Road Campus, | Institutional | Organiser & Participant | 26/06/2024 |
| 13 | Introduction to Generative AI | Google Cloud, | International | Participant | 19/06/2024 |
| 14 | Research Methods Workshop-Capstone Project | Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore Bannerghatta Road Campus, | Institutional | Organiser & Participant | 17/02/2024 |
| 15 | International Workshop on Research Methodology | VFSTR Deemed to be University, Andhra Pradesh , VFSTR Deemed to be University, Andhra Pradesh | International | Participant | 05/12/2023 |
| 16 | International Faculty Development Programme on New Frontiers in Literary Research | Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru, | International | Participant | 09/10/2023 |
| 17 | Faculty Orientation Program | Christ (Deemed to be University), | Institutional | Participant | 19/09/2023 |
| 18 | Induction Program | Christ (Deemed to be University), | Institutional | Participant | 21/07/2023 |
| 19 | Faculty Development Program | Christ (Deemed to be University), | Institutional | Participant | 26/06/2023 |
| 20 | International Faculty Development Programme on Contemporary Trends in English Studies | Kristu Jayanti College (Autonomous), Bengaluru, | International | Participant | 21/11/2022 |
| 21 | Workshop on Sustainable Development Using Literary Tools | St. Aloysius College, Thrissur, Kerala, | National | Participant | 28/10/2022 |
| 22 | Empowering knowledge on ethical publishing: Mastering the art of identifying predatory, fake and cloned journals | Elsevier , Elsevier | International | Participant | 08/06/2022 |
| 23 | FDP on Soft Skills for Millennial Teachers | SRNM College Tamil Nadu, SRNM College Tamil Nadu | National | Participant | 23/05/2022 |
| 24 | FDP on Critical Theories and their Modern Pedagogical Adequacy in the Humanities | Manipal University and Indian Society for the Promotion of English Language and Literature (iSPELL) , Manipal University | National | Participant | 26/07/2021 |
| 25 | FDP on Literature and Humanity | Reva University and Indian Society for the Promotion of English Language and Literature (iSPELL) , Reva University | National | Participant | 24/05/2021 |
| 26 | Advanced Writing | University of California, University of California | International | Participant | 08/10/2020 |
| 27 | Global Diplomacy: Diplomacy in the Modern World | University of London, University of London through Coursera | International | Participant | 08/08/2020 |
| 28 | Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects | McMaster University and University of California San Diego, McMaster University and University of California | International | Participant | 03/07/2020 |
| 29 | Feminism and Social Justice | University of California, University of California through Coursera | International | Participant | 01/07/2020 |
| 30 | Understanding Research Methods | University of London, University of London and SOAS University of London | International | Participant | 21/06/2020 |
| 31 | Social Psychology | Wesleyan University, Wesleyan University through Coursera | International | Participant | 12/06/2020 |
| 32 | The Science of Well-Being | Yale University, Yale University through Coursera | International | Participant | 08/05/2020 |
| 33 | Academic Information Seeking | University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark (DTU), University of Copenhagen and Technical University | International | Participant | 01/01/2020 |