Dr DHANESH M
BEd, MA, PhD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
BEd, MA, PhD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Articles in Periodicals
| Sl.No. | Title | Name of Periodical | Periodicity | Date |
| 1 | "Uyirinte Ezhuthatayalam" (Malayalam Cover Story) | Deshabhimani Weekly | Weekly | 29/07/2023 |
Articles in Journals
| Sl.No. | Title | Name of Journal / Vol. No. / Issue No. / Page Nos | ISSN No. | Date Published |
| 1 | The Production Paradox A Marxist Reading of the Publishing Industry in the Late Capitalist Era | Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) / 60 / 30 / - | 2349-8846 | 26-Jul-2025 |
| 2 | Beyond absentia: Analysing the politics of folk polyphony in exerting Dalit identity in S. Hareesh's "Moustache" | AGATHOS-AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES / 16 / 1 / - | 2069-1025 | 03-Jun-2025 |
| 3 | Hegemony of the Visual Question of Disability, Inclusivity, and Justice in 'Neru' | ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY / 60 / 8 / - | 2349-8846 | 22-Feb-2025 |
| 4 | Imagined utopias and lived dystopias: Literary imagination of the urban future in The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay | Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences (journal) / 15 / 2 (29) / - | 2069-1025 | 12-Nov-2024 |
Books/ Book Chapter/Case Study
| Sl.No. | Title | Author Names(s) | ISBN No. | Month Year |
| 1 | O. V. Vijayan: The Critical Insider (1st Edition) | DHANESH M (3188) | 9780367715748 | / |
| 2 | Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century | DHANESH M (3188) | 978-981-16-9859-0 | / |
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 | National Conference on Neurohumanities: Convergence of Literature, Art, and Cognition | Conference | There's No History to You: Exploring Grief Memory and Consciousness through Human-AI Interaction in "Be Right Back" | Presenter) | Kristu Jayanti (Deemed to be University) | 18/09/2025 |
| 2 | International Conference on 'Found in Translation: Transcreation, Adaptation, and Interpretation' | Conference | Convenor) | CHRIST University and National Translation Mission | 04/03/2025 | |
| 3 | Sixth International Deleuze and Guattari Studies in India Collective Conference-2025 | Conference | The Algorithmic-Assemblage Model: Rethinking Authorship and Languaging in the Age of Intelligent Machines | Presenter) | Woxsen University | 19/02/2025 |
| 4 | Vachana 2025- Annual International Conference | Conference | Moderator/Chair) | Christ University | 13/02/2025 | |
| 5 | Vachana 2025- Annual International Conference | Conference | Participant) | Christ University | 13/02/2025 | |
| 6 | International Conference on ?Fostering Multimodal Literacy through English Language Education? | Conference | Moderator/Chair) | CHRIST University and Mozilla RCCBangalore | 24/01/2025 | |
| 7 | PRISM 2025- National Conference on 'Illness, Wellness & Fitness: Rethinking Medical Humanities in the Age of Precarity' | Conference | Moderator/Chair) | Christ University | 20/01/2025 | |
| 8 | South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Conference 2025 | Conference | More than Humans: Questions Environmental Ethics and 'Planetarity' in O.V. Vijayan?s Novels | Presenter) | South Asian Literary Association (SALA) | 18/01/2025 |
| 9 | National Seminar on Discourses on Humanities | Seminar | Public Humanities: Towards Transformative Commons | Keynote Speaker) | Don Bosco College, Kannur University Kerala | 14/12/2024 |
| 10 | The International Memory Studies Conference- Memory, Security, and Sustainability | Conference | Narrative, Memory, and Affective Governmentality: A Study Based on Cinematic Representations | Presenter) | IIT MadrasIIT Madras | 16/09/2024 |
| 11 | INMS 2024 conference Memory, Security, and Sustainability | Conference | Moderator/Chair) | IIT MADRAS IIT Madras | 16/09/2024 | |
| 12 | International Conference on 'Modernities Redefined: Perspectives from South Asia' | Conference | A Little More than Human: The Non-Western Worldview in O.V. Vijayan's the Legends of Khasak | Presenter) | GITAM UniversityBangalore | 22/02/2024 |
| 13 | CUNY Games Conference | Conference | Playing it out: Imagining Urban Studies Course through Gamified Learning Experiences | Presenter) | The CUNY Games Network, City University of New YorkHybrid | 22/01/2024 |
| 14 | Vachana: National Conference On Eco-Spective: Ecological Discourses In South Asia | Conference | Moderator/Chair) | Christ University | 11/01/2024 | |
| 15 | National Symposium cum Workshop on Translation in the Indian Scenario: Practices and Promises in the 21st Century | Symposium | Convenor) | CHRIST University in collaboration with National Translation Mission (CIIL)CHRIST University Bannerghatta Road Campus Bangalore | 09/10/2023 | |
| 16 | Cinematic Cultures: An intersection of Film and Society | Symposium | Participant) | Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), and Kerala State Chalachitra AcademyCHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bannerghatta Road campus | 25/03/2023 | |
| 17 | Webinar on Accelerate your Research Using Elsevier?s Science Direct and Scopus | Seminar | Participant) | Kannur University and Researcher Academy ElsevierKerala (online) | 20/03/2023 | |
| 18 | International Conference on The Politics of Memory and History: Beyond the Postcolonial and the Postmodern | Conference | Narratives of Memory, History, and Knowledge: Reading through 'The Legends of Khasak' and 'Eri' | Presenter) | Central University of KeralaKerala | 13/03/2023 |
| 19 | Centenary Special Talk Series | Seminar | Participant) | St Berchmans College (Autonomous) KeralaOnline | 10/03/2023 | |
| 20 | Vachana2023: Annual National PG Conference | Conference | Convenor) | Christ UniversityBannerghatta Road Campus | 10/01/2023 | |
| 21 | Vachana 2023- Annual National PG Conference | Conference | Moderator/Chair) | Christ University | 10/01/2023 | |
| 22 | ELTIF Online Lecture Series | Seminar | Participant) | English Language Teachers? Interaction Forum (ELTIF)Online | 15/10/2022 | |
| 23 | Centenary Special Talk Series | Seminar | Participant) | SB CollegeKerala | 18/05/2021 | |
| 24 | National Webinar (Series) on ?Constru(i)cted Lives: Imagination, Myth and Reality | Seminar | To Be While Not To Be: Thoughts on the Performative Paradigm of Contemporary Life | Presenter) | Department of Studies in English, Kannur UniversityOnline | 10/12/2020 |
| 25 | National Webinar Series 'Neo-normal Discursivities: Community,Individual,Body | Seminar | Between the Object and the Organic: Thoughts on the Spatial Transformations During the Pandemic Time | Keynote Speaker) | Department of English, CKGM Government College Perambra, KeralaOnline | 08/08/2020 |
| 26 | International Webinar on Post-Pandemic Language, Literature and Culture: A Prospective View | Seminar | Participant) | Pg Department Of English & Iqac Payyanur College, Payyanur In Association With The Kerala State Higher Education Council & Faculty Of Language Studies, Sohar University, Omanonline | 25/05/2020 | |
| 27 | "The Left reflects on the global pandemic" : Gayatri C. Spivak | Seminar | Participant) | transform! europe, BelgiumOnline | 07/05/2020 | |
| 28 | Three Day National Conference on 'Contextualizing Migration' | Conference | Moderator/Chair) | GITAM UniversityHyderabad | 06/01/2020 | |
| 29 | National Seminar on Towards the Subaltern in Knowledge | Seminar | Trauma and the Politics of Affect: A Critique of the Strategy of Post-Truth Politics | Presenter) | Pondicherry UniversityPondicherry | 04/10/2018 |
| 30 | Deleuze and Guattari International Conference on Contemporary Communication Cultures, Controls and Becoming | Conference | Becoming- Narrative/Becoming-Truth: Problematics of 'News' as a Discursive Social Category in the Late-Capitalist World | Presenter) | Deleuze and Guattari Studies in India Collective and Madras UniversityChennai | 14/02/2018 |
| 31 | International Conference on Indian Literature as World Literature | Conference | Look-in Think-out: Observations on O V Vijayan's Alternative Paradigm of Existence in The Legends of Khasak | Presenter) | EFL UniversityHyderabad | 18/01/2018 |
Invited Talks
| Sl.No. | Titel of the Program | Name of the Program | Date | Name of the Institution |
| 1 | Affective Societies | Erudite Lecture | 16/02/2024 | Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College |
| 2 | Commemorating Milan Kundera | Invited Lecture | 01/08/2023 | Payyanur College, Kannur University |
| 3 | Introducing Tony Morrison Through 'The Bluest Eye' | Loka Mudrakal | 24/11/2020 | Payyannur Taluk Library Council |
| 4 | Introducing Cultural Studies: Theory Politics and Practice | Invited Lecture | 10/07/2019 | St Joseph's College, Pilathara, Kannur |
| 5 | Research Methodology | Invited Lecture | 13/12/2018 | NAM College Kallikkandy, Kannur District |
| 6 | Modernism and Modernity: Reading The Legends of Khasak in Its 50th Year | Invited Lecture | 19/11/2018 | Payyannur College, Payyannur, Kannur, Kerala |
MPhil/PhD Guided/Adjudicated
| Sl.No. | Title | Name of Student | Institution | Role | Status | Month Year |
| 1 | Becoming Minoritarian: Probing the Political Dimension of Symbolic Corporeal Metamorphosis in Select Tribal Folktales | SILPA T ANIRUDHAN | Christ University | Supervisor | Ongoing | January 2022 |
| 2 | From "Figure" To "Character": Mapping The Transformation of the "Yakshi" Identity from a "Discursive Figure" to a "Narrative Character" | GOKUL JAYAN | Christ University | Supervisor | Ongoing | September 2022 |
| 3 | Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: Analysing Representations of Loss Responses in Select Malayalam and Tamil Films | BETSY THOMAS | Christ University | Supervisor | Ongoing | December 2022 |
| 4 | THE MEMORY IN THE MATERIAL(S): AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF SELECT CULTURAL MATERIALS AND PRACTICES WITHIN BANGALORE THAT ENABLES THE CONSTRUCTION, DISSEMINATION, AND CONSUMPTION OF THE CULTURAL MEMORY OF ITS NOTABLE CITIZENS AND ITS EFFECT ON CULTURAL IDENTITY AND LANDSCAPE | VIDYA BALAKRISHNAN | Christ University | Supervisor | Ongoing | May 2024 |
| 5 | Conceptualising Confinement: A Study of Incarcerated Self in Select African Prison Narratives | Kannur University | Examiner |
Workshop/FDP/Training programme
| Sl.No. | Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training programme | Name of Organiser | Level | Role | Date |
| 1 | Indian Knowledge Systems | T JOHN'S COLLEGE BANGALORE , T JOHN'S COLLEGE | International | Participant | 17/10/2025 |
| 2 | Advancing Excellence in Higher Education: Vision, Curriculum, and Quality | Dept of English and Cultural Studies, | Institutional | Participant | 12/09/2025 |
| 3 | Rise of AI in Language and Linguistics | Madurai Gandhi N.M.R. Subbaraman College for Women in collaboration with SKRGC Academy , Madurai Gandhi N.M.R. Subbaraman College for Women | International | Participant | 01/09/2025 |
| 4 | Learner Centred Andragogy, E-Content Development, and Micro credentials | CHRIST University, | Participant | 24/03/2025 | |
| 5 | Generative AI for University Leaders | Vanderbilt University, Coursera | International | Participant | 12/02/2025 |
| 6 | Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) | IBM, | International | Participant | 10/02/2025 |
| 7 | Sustainable Development - Ideas and Imaginaries | University of Copenhagen, Coursera | International | Participant | 01/02/2025 |
| 8 | Quantitative Methods | University of Amsterdam , Coursera | International | Participant | 15/01/2025 |
| 9 | Enhancing Research Activities in Higher Education | CHRIST University, | Participant | 28/09/2024 | |
| 10 | Advancing Excellence in Higher Education: Vision, Curriculum, and Quality | CHRIST UNIVERSITY , | Institutional | Participant | 26/06/2024 |
| 11 | Leadership Workshop | CHRIST University Higher Education Leadership Institute (CUHELI), | Institutional | Participant | 02/02/2024 |
| 12 | Faculty Development Programme FDP -I 2023 | CHRIST University, | Institutional | Participant | 26/06/2023 |
| 13 | Certificate Course in Translation for College/University Teachers (with Project) | Department of English, University of Calicut , University of Calicut | Participant | 05/06/2023 | |
| 14 | 5 day Faculty Development Program on Curriculum Design and Revision | Staff Development College, CHRIST University, | Institutional | Participant | 05/12/2022 |
| 15 | 5-Day Faculty Development Program on Research Tools and Methodologies | Staff Development College, CHRIST University, | Institutional | Participant | 01/08/2022 |
| 16 | The Complete Graphic Design Theory for Beginners Course | , Udemy (MOOC) | International | Participant | 01/05/2022 |
| 17 | AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals | Association of Indian Universities and KOENIG, KOENIG | International | Participant | 17/02/2022 |
| 18 | Offline Orientation Program | Christ Staff Development College, | Participant | 07/12/2021 | |
| 19 | Hybrid Teaching | Staff Development College Christ University, | Participant | 02/03/2021 | |
| 20 | Classical Sociological Theory [MOOC] | University of Amsterdam , | International | Participant | 08/02/2021 |
| 21 | Learning to Teach Online | UNSW Sydney, UNSW Sydney | International | Participant | 08/10/2020 |
| 22 | University Teaching | The University of Hong Kong, | International | Participant | 15/08/2020 |
| 23 | Rethinking Critical Theory and Praxis in the Humanities and Social Sciences | IQAC Tetso College, Dimapur, Tetso College, Dimapur | National | Participant | 13/07/2020 |
| 24 | The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 2) | Wesleyan University, Wesleyan University | International | Participant | 13/06/2020 |
| 25 | The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 1) | Wesleyan University, Wesleyan University | International | Participant | 25/04/2020 |
| 26 | Productivity Tools for Teaching Enhancement | Dhyanahita Educational Society, Dhyanahita and GITAM University Hyderabad | Institutional | Participant | 03/04/2020 |
Awards/Achievements/Others
| Sl.No. | Name of the Awards/Achievements/Others | Description | Organisation | Month/ Year |
| 1 | Hermann Hesse Research Fellowship | Offered by Kannur University, in collaboration with the Calw University of Applied Science, Germany, to eligible PhD candidates | Kannur University | 01 October 2016 |
| 2 | National Eligibility Test-NET | UGC-India | 31 October 2018 | |
| 3 | State Eligibility Test (SET-Kerala) | Kerala State Directorate of Secondary Education | 31 July 2014 | |
| 4 | TamilNadu State Eligibility Test (TNSET) | Govt. of TN | 08 September 2017 | |
| 5 | Member of Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) | National network for 'memory studies' in Asia under the aegis of the International Memory Studies Association (MSA). | INMS, IIT Madras | 16 July 2021 |
| 6 | Member of Association for Literary Urban Studies | International and interdisciplinary platform for scholars studying the city in literature. formerly known as Helsinki Literature and the City Network (HLCN) | ALUS | 17 July 2023 |
| 7 | Member of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in India (IACLALS) | Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in India (IACLALS) (regd.), is the Indian Chapter of the International Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. | IACLALS | 26 September 2023 |
| 8 | South Asian Literary Association | The South Asian Literary Association (SALA); SALA is an Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association (MLA) | The South Asian Literary Association | 28 November 2024 |
| 9 | The English Language Teachers? Association of India-Teacher Membership | The English Language Teachers? Association of India (ELTAI) | 25 February 2025 | |
| 10 | Board of Studies Member (MA English Subject Expert) | Mount Carmel College Autonomous | 22 February 2025 | |
| 11 | Board of Studies Member (MA English Subject Expert) | Mount Carmel College -Autonomous | 27 October 2025 |