I pursued M.A., M.Phil, B.Ed., and PhD, in English from Bharathidasan University. I cracked the UGC-NET Lectureship examination in 1996 and acquired PGCTE (1996) and PGDTE (1999) from EFLU (then CIEFL). I have been working in Nehru Memorial College for the past 28 years (as on 12th July, 2022). I was appointed the Head of the Department in (2007). I availed myself of the UGC Teacher Fellowship for pursuing Doctoral Research under FIP between 2005 and 2007. I served as the Coordinator of the Steering Committee during the NAAC Peer Team Visit to the College during September 2012. I received grant from UGC for a Minor Research Project entitled Developing Effective Strategies for Enriching the Word Power of the First Generation Rural Learners and it was carried out between 2014 and 2016. I was the Dean, Academic Affairs, of Nehru Memorial College between February 2018 and February 2022.
My research interests include American Literature and English Language Teaching (ELT). I have published on these topics in reputed national and international journals. I have been a board member of the text book committee of our college since 2015. I am also serving as the Member Secretary of the Academic Council and a Member of the Governing Body of our college. I have successfully guided twelve M.Phil Candidates, one Ph.D Candidate and at present, six Ph.D research scholars are working under my supervision.
I am a member of Board of Studies and Subject Expert (English), member of Doctoral committee for Ph D candidates, and have been vested with the role of examiner for evaluating M.Phil dissertations and Ph D theses. I have been invited as a resource person to address young teachers and students at various seminars, conferences, workshops, orientation programmes and refresher courses. I have been the resource person for the webinars organized by reputed institutions during the new normal situation and have attended many webinars. I have also taken up leading roles in organizing various events. I organized two online quizzes (one on Critical and Creative Thinking and the other on Word Power Enrichment). Apart from academics, I held responsibilities as Associate NCC Officer (Lieutenant Rank), Co-ordinator of Youth Red Cross, Programme Officer of National Service Scheme and the Staff-in-charge of the Fine Arts Association of our college.
Total No. of Events Organized in leading role: 18
Total No. of Events Participated (Orientation Programmes/Refresher Courses/Workshops/FDPs/ Seminars and Conferences: 90
Total No. of Seminars addressed as resource person: 110
Total No. of Webinars addressed as resource person: 50
Total No. of Publications (including book chapters & journal articles) 40 (6 indexed in Scopus, 2 in WoS)
1. Best NCC Officer in 2007, 2008
2. Best Teacher of the year 2020 by the By the Rotary Club of Tirunelveli and Teacher’s Welfare Organization (TWO), Tirunelveli.