Dr. Fathima M
Assistant Professor
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Academic Experience:
Research Experience: 6
Teaching Experience: 7 -
Qualification:
BA, MA, M.Phil, Ph.D
Dr. Fathima M
Assistant Professor
| # | Degree | Subject | University, place ,year |
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| 1 | Ph.D | English Literature | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. (defended on 10 January 2022). |
| 2 | M.Phil | English Literature | Christ University, Bangalore (2012) |
| 3 | M.A. | English Literature | Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore (2011). |
| 4 | B.A. | English Literature | University of Kerala, Trivandrum (2009). |
| M, Fathima. “The Woman-Sea Conversation in Carmella Circelli’s Novel Love and Rain”. Paper presented at AMET University, 4 & 5th April 2025. Won the Best Paper Presentation Award and a Cash Prize. |
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M, Fathima. “Postcolonialism and Refugee Experiences: A Study of Select Literary Texts” at the 9th SLACLALS Conference held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 21-22 July 2023 |
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M, Fathima. “Climate Change and Social Inequalities in Literature”. Paper presented at Oregon State University, 21 April 2023 |
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M, Fathima. “The Language and Repetition of Resistance in Contemporary Palestinian Poetry”. Paper presented (online) at the University of Porto, Portugal. Expanded Poetry: The Poetics and Politics of Repetition. 23-25 November 2022. |
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M, Fathima. “Palestinian Resistance Poetry and the Genre of Poetry: The Language of Reclaiming a Lost Home”. Paper presented (online) at the University of Tubingen, Germany. International Forum on Global South Studies 2022. 4-14 October 2022. |
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M, Fathima. “Deconstructing the Personal and the Political in Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners: A Study of Metis Struggle”. Paper presented at an international webinar organized by Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore.16 May 2022. |
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M, Fathima and Zahra Soltanmohammadi. “Examining the Intersection of Gender and Displacement in Contemporary Palestinian Literature in English”. Paper presented at Second Umran International Symposium. 20-21 November 2021. |
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M, Fathima. “Analyzing the Meanings of Ethics and Migration in Nilufer Demir’s Photography”. Paper presented at the Intermediality and Storytelling Workshop organized by Delhi Comparatists. 6-7 November 2021. |
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M, Fathima. “Cosmopolitanism and the Intersection of ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Spaces in Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows. Paper presented at the National Seminar Paritions Revisited: Postmemory, History, Identity held at Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. 20 February 2020. |
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M, Fathima. “Alienation at ‘home’: A Critical Study of Select Contemporary Indian Novels”. Paper presented at the National seminar on Displacement and Diaspora: Indian Literary Response held at the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, University of Delhi. 5-6 February 2020. |
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M, Fathima. “Disturbing Beauty: A Comparative Study of Githa Hariharan’s I Have Become The Tide and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye”. Paper presented at the National conference held at Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi. Comparative Study of African-American and Dalit and Minority Literature UGC Sponsored Conference. 20-21 August 2019. |
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M, Fathima. “Literary Modes and Representations from the Global South: A Critical Study of Select South Asian and African Novels.” Ethics in the Global South, Spring School, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany. 5-8 April 2017. |
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M, Fathima. “The Critique of Identities in Michael Ondaatje's Writings.” Sri Lanka Association of Commonwealth Language and Literary Studies, Sri Lanka. 29-30 October 2016. |
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M,Fathima. “One Truth or Multiple Truths: a Critical Study of Select South Asian Novels”. Truth Commissions and the Culture of Dissenting Memory in the Global South. University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany. 25-29 July 2016. |
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M, Fathima. “The Politics of Public and Private in Daphne du Maurier”. Paper presented at Exploring Moral Interfaces: Private Worlds and Public Systems, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. 7-9 October 2015. M, Fathima. “Adaptation: An Inevitable form of Delusion”. Paper presented at International Conference on Comparative Literature and Culture, Morris College,Nagpur. September 11-12, 2015. Published as conference proceeding in Journal of Higher Education and Research Society, Vol 3, Issue 2, 2015. |
| M, Fathima. “Jhumpa Lahiri: A Second Generation Diasporic Writer”. Paper presented at Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore. 18 March 2011. |
| M, Fathima. “The Myth of Feminist Solidarity in the Global South”. Panelist in Global South Forum “Un/thinking the ‘Crisis’: Knowledge, Art. University of Tubingen, 6-17 November 2023. |
| M, Fathima. “The Intersection of Art and Protest in Palestinian Poetry in English”. Department of English, Pondicherry University, 5-6 October 2023. |
| Delivered a talk on the fiction of Kamila Shamsie, 2 April 2022 at UMRAN, UARA (India/Turkey). |
| Delivered a talk on the representation of refugees and rebels in the work of Dina Nayeri at the University of Tubingen, Germany, 20 January 2022. |
| Invited talk titled “Cultural and Diplomatic Ties between India and Pakistan.” |
| Liberal Arts and Science Academy High School, Austin, Texas. 15 February 2018. |
Articles in Newspapers and Magazines
| “Shaheen Bagh and a new wave of feminism” co-authored with Sharonee Dasgupta in Cafe Dissensus Magazine, Issue 55, 28 September 2020. |
| “Celebrating Eid in uncertain times” co-authored with Sharonee Dasgupta, published in Cafe Dissensus Everyday. 23 May 2020. |
| “Using art as a medium of protest” co-authored with Sharonee Dasgupta, published in Cafe Dissensus Everyday. 3 May 2020. |
| “ Love and Resistance in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh” co-authored with Sharonee Dasgupta, published in Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star, 3 February 2020. |
| M, Fathima. “Postcolonialism and Refugee Experiences” A Study of Select Literary Texts. Phoenix: Sri Lanka Journal of English in the Commonwealth. Volume XVII 2025 |
| Review of Zulaikha by Niloufar Lily Soltani in Cha. 12 July 2025 |
| Review of What my Bones Know by Stephanie Foo. 16 June 2025 |
| Review of A Woman Burnt by Imayam in Cha Journal. 13 February 2025 |
| Review of Annie Zaidi’s Bread Cement Cactus in Cha Journal. 12 January 2025 |
| Review of Fady Joudah’s [...] in Consequence Forum Substack. 10 January 2025 |
| Review of The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura published in Cha journal. 21 October 2024 |
| Review of Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie published in Cha Journal. 29 August 2024 |
| Review of Love and Rain by Carmella Circelli published in The Kathmandu Post. 27 July 2024 |
| Review of What Strange Paradise by Omar Al Akkad published in The Kathmandu Post. 23 March 2024 |
| Review of Refuge by Dina Nayeri in Cha journal. 22 September 2023. |
| Review of The Joyluck Club by Amy Tan published in Cha journal. 12 June 2023. |
| Review of A God At The Door by Tishani Doshi in The Kathmandu Post. 3 June 2023. |
| Review of A Red-necked Green Bird by Ambai in The Kathmandu Post. 7 January 2023. |
| Review of Fuse by Hollay Ghadery in The Kathmandu Post. 3 September 2022. |
| Review of Qabar by K R Meera in The Kathmandu Post, 25 June 2022. |
| Review of Reminders on the Path by Sheniz Janmohamed in Minola Review, June Issue, 2022. |
| Review of A Death in Shonagachhi by Rijula Das in The Kathmandu Post, 7 May 2022. |
| Review of A Mirror Made of Rain by Naheed Phiroze Patel in The Kathmandu Post, 9 April 2022. |
| Review of The Beauty of your Face by Sahar Mustafah in The Kathmandu Post, 4 September 2021. |
| Review of The Ungrateful Refugee in The Kathmandu Post, 10 July 2021. |
| Review of Estuary by Perumal Murugan in World Literature Today. Spring Edition 2021. |
| Review of The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali in The Kathmandu Post. 28 November 2020. |
| Review of Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture in Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou by David Chaffetz in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. 9 October 2020. |
| Review of Quichotte by Salman Rushdie in World Literature Today, January 2020. |
| Review of Night of Happiness by Tabish Khair. Wasafiri Issue 99, Autumn 2019. |
| Review of I Have Become The Tide by Githa Hariharan in The Kathmandu Post. 20 August 2019. |
| Review of Hijabistan by Sabyn Javeri in The Kathmandu Post. 24 May 2019. |
| Review of Poonachi by Perumal Murugan in Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star. 4 May 2019. |
| Review of Milk Teeth by Amrita Mahale in The Wire . 26 March 2019 |
| Review of Jasmine Days by Benyamin in The Wire. 27 December 2018 |
| Review of Dark Circles by Udayan Mukherjee in The Wire. 23 December 2018. |
| Review of All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy in The Wire. 30 October 2018. |
| Review of Desi Girls by Divya Mathur and The Lovers and the Leavers by Abeer Hoque. Wasafiri, Vol 133, Issue 94. 2018. |
| Review of Mrs. Shaw by Ngugi Wa Thing’O and The Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam. Wasafiri, Vol 32, Issue 90. 2017. |
| Review of Chander & Sudha by Dharamvir Bharati (tr. Poonam Saxena) in The Wire. 2 May 2016. |
| M. Fathima. “Adaptation: An Inevitable form of Delusion”. Paper presented at International Conference on Comparative Literature and Culture, Morris College,Nagpur, 11-12 September 2015. Published as conference proceeding in Journal of Higher Education and Research Society, Vol 3, Issue 2, 2015. |
| M, Fathima. “The Woman-Sea Conversation in Carmella Circelli’s Novel Love and Rain”. Paper presented at AMET University, 4 &5th April 2025. Won the Best Paper Presentation Award and a Cash Prize. |
| Jury commendations were received for translating the Urdu short- story “Saaye” by Khalid Jawed, translated into English as “Shadows”, by the judges of the Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English translation, December 2021. |
| Won Best Paper Award and a cash award at the National Seminar at Zakir Husain College, University of Delhi. 20 February 2020. |
| https://thewire.in/books/aalim-akhtar-bilal-tanweer-named-joint-winners-of-2021-jawad-memorial-prize-for-translation |
| Delievered a Guest Lecture “Pain and Aesthetics of Exile in Select Resistance Poems” at OISE, University of Toronto on 13 November 2024. |
| Delievered a guest lecture “Representation of Refugees in Select Literary Texts” at Fatima Mata National College, Kollam , Kerala. 25 October 2024. |
| Delivered a lecture on Resistance Poetry at OISE, University of Toronto. 13 November 2024 |
| Delivered a talk on Refugee narratives at Fatima Mata National College, Kollam. 25 October 2024 |