ARYA PARAKKATE VIJAYARAGHAVAN

Designation:

Assistant Professor

Area:

Humanities & Social Sciences

Education:

PhD, MPhilEnglish & Cultural Studies

Date of Joining:

2024-05-15

Biography

Vijayaraghavan earned her Ph.D. from The English and Foreign Languages University,Hyderabad, India. Her doctoral work was in the area of Gender and Intersectionality studies, exploring the politics of Piety in the works of select Arab women writers. As an academic and researcher, her research spans Critical Food Studies, Gender and Intersectionality, English & Cultural studies and Critical Pedagogy. Currently, her keen interest lies in the area of Critical Food Studies, especially in its development and engagement of it in the context of India.

Published Papers

Vijayaraghavan, A.P., Chattaraj, D. (2023). The Politics of Food: Gastropopulism and New Populist Movements. In: Chacko Chennattuserry, J., Deshpande, M., Hong, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9859-0_128-1(Encyclopedia Entry)
Alphonse, F. R.; Vijayaraghavan, A.P. (2023). Towards Inclusivity within Knowledge and Culture. Economic and Political Weekly.58(27). (Scopus)
Alphonse, F. R.; Vijayaraghavan, A.P. BakerEl-Ebiary, Y. A. (2023). Cultivating Inclusivity in Social Spaces. Economic and Political Weekly.58 (21). (Scopus)
Vijayaraghavan, A.P., Chattaraj, D. (2022) Task-based Autoethnographic Pedagogical Approach: a phenomenological inquiry into online learning of Critical Food Studies courses. Asia Pacific Educ. Rev..https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-022-09809-x (Scopus – Q1)
George, N., & Vijayaraghavan, A. P. (2022). Identity in consumption: Reading food and intersectionality in Anita Desai’s fasting, feasting. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n2.20(Scopus)
Vijayaraghavan, A.P., Chattaraj, D. (2022) What is Remembered in Pandemic: A Commentary on the Mediated Memories of Piety in COVID-19. Soc59, 366–372 .https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-022-00707-x (Scopus)
Chattaraj, D., Vijayaraghavan, A.P. (2021). The mobility paradigm in higher education: a phenomenological study on the shift in learning space. Smart Learn. Environ.8, 15 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40561-021-00162-x (Scopus – Q1)
Chattaraj, D., Vijayaraghavan, A.P. (2021)Why learning space matters: a script approach to the phenomena of learning in the emergency remote learning scenario. Comput. Educ.8, 343–364 .https://doi.org/10.1007/s40692-021-00182-z(Scopus – Q1)
Vijayaraghavan, A.P., Chattaraj, D. (2020)Rhetorics in/of English language education in India: A case of digital natives in higher education programs. Journal of English as an International Language . ELE Publishing. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1282746(scopus – Q1)
Chattaraj, D., Vijayaraghavan, A.P. (2023) A Phenomenological Inquiry into Learners’ Experience of Consonance and Dissonance during the Pandemic in India: Learning in the Time of Crisis. Pradhan, U., Valentin, K., & Gupta, M. (Eds.).Rethinking Education in the Context of Post-Pandemic South Asia: Challenges and Possibilities (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003332688 (WOS – Book chapter)
Vijayaraghavan, A.P. (2020)The Angst of Human Existence: Metamorphic World in Girish Karnad’s Plays. Ed Debayan Deb Barman, & Sushanta Kumar Bardhan Post IndependenceIndian Theatres: Critical Perspectives ISBN 978 -93-87945 -85 -2.(Book Chapter)

PHD SUPERVISED & AWARDED

George, Nayana. The Culinary Space: Reading Food and Identity Intersections in Select Narratives. December 2023.
Ruban A, Fredrick. A Sociopolitical Study of Contemporary Ideological Discourse on Ethnic Nationalism from Tamil Nadu. July 2024
Gupta, Gunjan. Narrativizing the City: Culinary Place Making of Delhi through Select Cookbooks. (Submitted)

Teaching Cases

English & Cultural Studies, Critical Food Studies, Gender Studies

Teaching Interest

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Research Interest

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Training & Consultation

Conferences and Workshops

April 2024:Adrogogical approaches to Teaching English Language to Engineering Students. National workshop on Educating Ethical Technologists: Humanistic Perspective in the AI Era, organised by CHRIST University & Mozilla’s Responsible Computing Challenge. (Invited speaker)
September 2023: Sustenance of English Major Programs: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Learners’ Perception of Meaningful Learning Experience in The Post-COVID Context. International Conference on ‘Language and AI in Asia’ Conference 2023, organised by University of Oxford, England. (Presenter)
March 2021: Exploring Rhetoric as a framework for EAP in India.International Conference on Expansion and Concerns: Mapping EAP for academic Purpose organized by Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. (Invited Speaker)
July 2021: Digital Shift in Education: A phenomenological study on Learners’ Experience of Mobility in Pandemic. International Conference on Education in Crisis: Re-Thinking Education in (Post)-Pandemic South Asia organized by University of Oxford, England. (Presenter)
July 2021: Reading in the Digital World: Concerns and Opportunities International Webinar organised by K S. Rangasamy College of Technology, Tamil Nadu. (Invited Speaker)
May 2021: Food in/of Pandemic: An International Conferenceorganized by CHRIST University Bangalore, India and Liverpool Hope University, The United Kingdom. (Convener)
MAY 2020 :Session Narrativization of food in /of Pandemic in Food in/of Pandemic: An International Conference organized by CHRIST University Bangalore, India and Liverpool Hope University, The United Kingdom. (Session Chair)
FEB 2020:Revisiting the Silent Spring: Ecological Intersections and Systemic Violence a National Seminar on Man, Literature and Environment organised by the School of Letters Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. (Keynote Speaker)
DEC 2019: Synthesize: An Interdisciplinary International Conference: New Work Order: Hopes and Challenges CHRIST University Bangalore, India. (Session Chair)
FEB 2019 (Chair ):Rethinking English Studies in India: The Cultural Studies Turn and Its Possibilities a National Symposiumorganised by CHRIST University in collaboration with Sahitya Akademi, Bangalore.
DEC 2014 :Metamorphosis and Power: A Social Psychological Perspective Postcolonial Voices in South Asian Literature and Cinema, International Conference.(Presenter)

Paper-work in progress

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Academic Service

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Ph.D. Guideship

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Awards

Funded Minor project: Atho Kadai Stories: Tracing Burmese Street Food Culture in Chennai. Jaya Prakash Narayan Centre for Excellence in the Humanities, IIT Indore, 24 Months (July 2024 – July 2026).

Media Coverage

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