Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Interest
Nation with a Special Reference to Subnationalism, North-East Indian Literature in English and Translation, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Tamil Literature
Education
Ph.D., NIT Tiruchirappalli, June 2020
PG, Bharathidasan University, April 2013
UG, Bishop Heber College Tiruchirappalli, April 2011
Manickam, Muthukumar and Vinod Balakrishnan. “Historicising the Banal: Media Representation of India’s North-East as Discriminatory Pedagogy Begetting subnational Discourse” Archiv Orientalni. 85. 3. (2017): pp 409-438.
Manickam Muthukumar and Vinod Balakrishnan. “Being Bios in Zoe and Zoe in Bios: Easterine Kire’s Bitter Wormwood as a Critique of Agamben’s Model of Biopolitics.” South Asian Review, 42. 2. (2019): pp 147-176.
Balakrishnan, Vinod., Vishaka Venkat., & Muthukumar Manickam “Virality in the Environment of Political Cartoon: When History Intersects Representation. The European Journal of Humour Research. 7. 2. (2019): pp 137-152.
Manickam, Muthukumar and Vinod Balakrishnan “Subnational Discourse as Counter Imagination in Esther Syiem’s ‘To the Rest of India from Another Indian’: Towards a Confederal Political Assumption” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and History of Ideas. 18. 1. (2020): pp 149-173.
