AATHIRA NANDAN
Assistant Professor
Email: english@nsscollegemanjeri.ac.in
Phone: +914833560999
Address: Parakkat, Kovilakam Road, Manjeri P.O, 676 121
- Board of Studies Member of Dance at Kannur University from 2018-2020
Talks, Lectures and Demonstrations:
- Resource Person in a two day Training Programme in Human Resource Management and Soft Skills organised by the Department of English, NSS College, Manjeri on 28-02-2011 and 01-03-2011
- Talk on “Confrontation of Identities and Their Performability in Girish Karnad’s Plays” on 29.06.12 at MES College, Mampad
- Performed Cholliyattam based on the syllabus for high school students of MMETHSS Malappuram on 13.08.14
- Demonstrated Kathakali as part of UGC National Seminar organized by Dept. of Malayalam, MES College, Mampad on 18 th September 2014
- Resource Person at English Literary Camp, “Poiesis 2014” on 22 nd October 2014
- Performed Kathakali as part of “Malayanma” at Govt. College, Malappuram on 21st October 2014
- Delivered a talk on Natyasastra for the V Semester students of Dept of English Markaz Arts and Science College, Valanchery on 5th October 2016
- Chaired PG Students’ National Seminar on “Literature from the Margins” at KAHM Unity Women’s College, Manjeri on 23 rd November 2016
- Delivered a talk on “Art and Aesthetics” at Women’s Islamiya Arts and Science College, Wandoor on 13th January 2017
- Chaired a session as part of a one day National Seminar at MES Arts and Science College, Perinthalmanna on 5th December 2018
- Gave a lecture demonstration on “Theatrical Aspects of Kathakali” on 22nd December 2018 as part of NSS Camp at Sevamandir Post Basic Higher Secondary School
- Inaugurated Language Club at HMY HSS, Manjeri and delivered a talk on “Language and Identity” on 10th July 2019
- Recorded “Subhashitham” at All India Radio Manjeri on 28th August 2019
- Performed “Akshararagam”, a choreography based on Girish Karnad’s Nagamandala as part of one day National Seminar at Christ College, Irinjalakkuda on 14th November 2019
Paper Presentations:
- “Interior/Exterior,Home/Outside: Parallelisms in Janu’s Mother Forest and Sally Morgan’s My Place”. National Seminar, NSS College, Ottapalam 25th and 26th August 2011
- “Nalacharitham’s Translator as a Subversive Scribe”National Seminar NSS College, Manjeri 13 th to 15 th October 2011.
- “Spaces within and without Tagore’s Plays: a Study Using Tagore’s Mukthadara, Natir Puja and Chandalika” National Conference Pondicherry University 22nd and 23rd March 2012.
- “Literary and Performance Aspects of Poothanamoksham” National Seminar MES Mampad College 17th and 18th September 2014.
- “Sanskrit Language and Literature Structuring the Text of Kathakali: Literary and Performance” National Seminar Chinmaya International Foundation Shodha Sansthan Ernakulam 20th and21st September 2014.
- “Mahesh Dattani’s Dance Like a Man: Redefining Masculinities” National Seminar NSS College, Manjeri 15th , 16th and 17th December 2014.
- “Evolutionary History of Kathakali: the Role of Valluvanad” National Seminar Sree Vyasa NSS College Wadakkanchery 15th , 16th September 2015.
- “Gender as/in Performance: an Analysis of Kumara Varma’s Begum Panicker” National Seminar NSS College Ottapalam 8th and 9th October 2015.
- “Indeterminacy in Gender Performance: Analysis of Chitrangada in Kathakali, Drama and Cinema” National Seminar Sree Sankara College, Kalady 29th and 30th September 2016.
- “Performing the Literary: Revisiting Shakespeare’s King Lear”. National Seminar at Panampilly Memorial Government College, Chalakkudy on 4th ,5th , and 6th January 2017.
- “Kavalam Narayana Panicker’s Marattam: an Experimental Theatre”. National Seminar at Sree Krishna College, Guruvayur on 13th and 14th March 2017.
- “A ‘Coloured’ American Story from Oral to Written Tradition: an Analysis of Delany Sisters’ Having Our Say. National Seminar at Govt. College Malappuram on 30th and 31st October 2018.
- “Metrofiction and Contemporary Realities: an Analysis of Amruta Patil’s Kari”. National Seminar at C. Achutha Menon Government College, Thrissur on 5th and 6th November 2019.
Minor Research Project
- “Nationality, Identity and Displacement: Working Towards Certain Parallelisms”
Funded by UGC. December 2012
Publications:
- “Atmakathakal Avatharippikkunna Dwandwangal: Sally Morgante Ente Idavum, C.K. Januvinte Mathruvanavum”. ISSN 2319-974 Sanghaditha Malayalam Monthly8, No. 3 September 2014
- “Transgender Performance in Kathakali” ISSN 2394-3009 Albertian Review of Literature1.No.1 December 2014
- “Elements of Folk in Kathakali: a Hair-Splitting Argument”. ISSN Teresian Journal of English Studies7, No.1 October 2015
- “Sanskrit Language and Literature Structuring the Text of Kathakali- Literary and Performance” ISSN 2249-6696 Research Scholar6.No.3 September 2016
- “Ormayude Sooryan” ISSN 2454- 4795 College Teacher June 2016
- “Performing the Literary: Revisiting Shakespeare’s King Lear”. ISSN 239. Etude: a Multidisciplinary Research Journal. Vol.3 No.1. March 2017
- “Sareeranishedhathinte Rashtriya Vivakshakal”. ISSN 2454-4795. College Teacher. March 2017
- “Evolutionary History of Kathakali: the Role of Valluvanad”. Exploring the Cultural Spectrum of Valluvanad-Thalappilly. of History, Sree Vyasa NSS College, Thrissur. ISBN 978-93-5254-629-9. March 2017
- “Atmakathakal Avatharippikkunna Dwandwangal: Sally Morgante Ente Idavum CK Januvinte Mathruvanavum”. Ulkkannadikal. Kairali Books. ISBN 93-86822-93-2. April 2018
- “Natakantham Kavithwam”. College Teacher. ISSN 2454-4795. October 2018
- “Reading ‘She Has No Place in Paradise’ in Kerala”. College Teacher. ISSN 2454-4795. March 2019
Special Achievements:
- Performed Kathakali at Embassy of India The Hague, Netherlands as part of Govt. of India’s Cultural Exchange Programme on 26th, 27th and 28th January 2016
- Performed an experimental work based on Tamil epic Chilappathikaram in association with Kottakkal Nandakumaran Nair on 14.01.2018. The work was titled Madhuradahanam and was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India.
Cultural Performances:
- Performed Kathakali as part of the festival “Devadasyam” organized by Salabhanjika School of Dance, Thrissur on 3 rd May 2014
- Performed Kathakali as part of Manjeri Muthrukunnu Temple Festival on 26th March 2015
- Performed Kathakali as part of Atham Festival Organised by Municipal Corporation Thripunithura in September 2015
- Performed Kathakali as part of festival at Siva Temple, Shornur on 28th February 2015
- Performed Kathakali as part of festival organized by Kathakali Club Thrissur on 19th April 2015
- Performed “Aksharanritham” as part of Malappuram District Ksheera Karshaka Samghamam Programme on 17th and 18th February 2017 at Karulaayi.
- Performed Kathakali as part of first anniversary celebration of Educare Study Centre, Kolathuparambu on 30th December 2018
- Performed Kathakali as part of a cultural programme led by SPICMACAY at Delhi Public School Coimbatore on 20th July 2019
- Performed Kathakali as part of Srujana Arts Festival at Hyderabad on 5th August 2019