Research Interest

Memory Studies, Indian Writing in English, Colonial Modernity Studies, Women’s Writings

  Courses Taught

• LAL 100: Introduction to Communication Skills

• LAL 221: Indian Writing in English

• LAL 221: Introduction to Partition Literature

• LAL 227: Women's Literature

• LA 351: Elements of World Literature

• LAL 711: Modern Indian Literatures

• LAL 712: Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice

• LAL 714: Feminist Theory in Literature

  Academic Background

• PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
• MA English and Comparative Literature, Pondicherry University
• BA English Language and Literature, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam

  Professional Experience

• May 2023 to present: Assistant Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Bhilai
• July 2021 to October 2022: Project Manager, Centre for Memory Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
• July 2020 to July 2021: Visiting Assistant Professor, Communications Area, Indian Institute of Management Indore
• June 2013 to July 2014: Assistant Professor on Contract, Assumption College Changanacherry, Kottayam

  Awards

• Gold Medal for Outstanding Performance in MA English and Comparative Literature, Pondicherry University
• UGC Post-graduate Merit Scholarship for University Rank Holder
• University First Rank for BA English Language and Literature, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam

  Publications

• Vinayan, Sruthi and Merin Simi Raj. 2024. "Women, rememory, and herstory: Reading Hangwoman as a feminist fiction of memory." Journal of Postcolonial Writing. doi:10.1080/17449855.2023.2300438
• Vinayan, Sruthi and Merin Simi Raj. 2021. “The Indulekha Moment and the Malayalam Literary Canon: On the Literary History of the Early Twentieth-century Novels in Kerala, South India.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. vol. 13 no. 1, pp. 1-12. doi: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.37
• Vinayan, Sruthi and Merin Simi Raj. 2019. “The Politics of Representation and the “Ideal Malayalee Woman”: Remembering Malayalam Women’s Magazines of the Early 20th-century Kerala, South India.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing. vol. 55 no. 3, pp. 399-411. doi:10.1080/17449855.2019.1570966
• Vinayan, Sruthi. 2016. “Asurayana: Reading Asura as a Subaltern Narrative.” Journal of ELTIF. vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 32-36.

  Invited Talk/Resource Person

• Resource person for 7-Day Faculty Development Programme on Retracing Memory: Histories, Cultures and Narratives organized by Amity Institute of English Studies and Research from 15 to 21 July 2024
• Resource Person for an online workshop on “Research Writing: Approaches and Techniques” for PhD Scholars held at Assumption College (Autonomous) on 23 February 2023
• Resource Person for the Three-day Online Workshop on Memory Studies organized by the Department of English, University of Kashmir in collaboration with Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras from 18–20 July 2022
• Resource Person for ‘Technical Communication’ for PhD students, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras held on 2nd and 8th March 2022
• Resource Person for an Online Workshop on ‘Technical Writing’ for HPCL Chennai on 14 December 2021
• Resource Person for the Certification course on Effective Communication and Soft Skills organized by Centre for Continuing Education IIT Madras from 10–12 September 2021
• Resource Person for an Online Faculty Development Programme on Academic Writing at Loyola College of Social Sciences, Trivandrum held from 5 to 9 June 2021
• Resource Person for ‘Technical Communication’ for PhD students, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras held on 29 May 2021
• Invited Lecture on “Literature and Memory: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting in Literary Narratives” as part of the Alumnae Lecture Series organized by the Department of English, Assumption College (Autonomous) Changanacherry on 11 November 2020
• Resource person for a One Day workshop on “Theories of Gender: Reflections and Observations” held at the Department of English, Assumption College (Autonomous), Changanacherry on 20 January 2020