Academic Qualification

Dr. V. Virgin Nithya Veena, Assistant Professor of English, Holy Cross College (Autonomous), Nagercoil, hails from the southern tip of Tamil Nadu. As an academician and researcher, she has fruitful experience in teaching and research in higher education. She has a very long association with her alma mater both as a student and now as a faculty. With her UG and PG programmes from the campus, she made her home coming with M.Phil from Mother Tresa University, Kodaikanal. In the long run, she cleared State Eligibility Test and got Ph.D degree. 

Her areas of specialisations are Feminist Writing, Subaltern Literature and Literary Theories

She has completed a UGC Minor Research Project and more than I5 research articles in reputed national and international journals with impact factor and UGC Care list journals. She is pursuing research as a Ph.D research guide approved by Manonmaniam Sundaranar University.  She has proven her calibre as coordinator of several curricular and extracurricular activities, has created few SLOs to her credit and has completed SWAYAM MOOC course “Annual Refresher Programme In English Language Teaching”.She is a novice creative writer and compiler of an anthology, Inscape/Escape: Journey into the Interior/Exterior. 

Short Term Course: E-content Development, Holy Cross College (Autonomous). 28th June -4th July, 2016

 Co-ordinator of M.Phil Course 2008-09

Teaching faculty of M.S.University Distance Education during 2008-10

Member of Rotaract Club 2008-10

Member of SC/ST Cell 2008-10

Member of Parent Teacher Association 2013-16

Co-ordinator of COP – Journalism and Mass Communication 2014-2017

Member of ICT Committee 2015- 2018

Member of the Research Committee 2016- 2017

Co-ordinator of CROSSLINKS 2016-17

Co-ordinator of the Media Committee 2016- 2019

Organising Secretary of the National Conference “Literary Translation: From Tamil to English” held on 7/3/2018

Member of Documentation Committee 2018-19

Member of Alumnae Committee 2018-19

Completed the Minor Research Project – “Postmodernist and Metamodernist Polity in the Fiction of Aravind Adiga” during  2014-16

Award for Paper Publication in two international journals with impact factor during 2015-2016

Prepared a SLO on “Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature” during 2015-2016

MOOC Course – 1. “Exploring English:Shakespeare!”

                     2. “Literature and Wellbeing”

Prepared a SLO on “Aravind Adiga – Know the Author” during 2016-2017

Award for Paper Publication in an International Journal with impact factor during 2016-2017

Executive Editor of the Proceedings of the International Conference – Innovative Research and Pedagogy- 2016-17

Completed online SWAYAM ARPIT Annual Refresher Programme in English Language Teaching in 2020

MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC BODIES:

ELTAI – Member – 2018- 21

InRes - Life Member

AIFEST - Life Member

Dean of Arts – 2020- till date