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Dr. Divya John secured a first class in MA English Language and Literature from the University of Calicut, Kerala, and qualified at the UGC-NET (National Educational Test) in Dec 2000. She completed the Postgraduate Certificate in the Teaching of English (PGCTE) with distinction from CIEFL, Hyderabad, in 2004, with a GPA of 3.86. She was awarded PhD by the University of Calicut in Jan 2008 on the topic “The Cybernetics of Love: A Study of Kahlil Gibran.”
Dr. John joined the Dept of English, SSN College of Engineering, on 3 Jan 2007. She has eighteen years of teaching and research experience and is recognized as a PhD Supervisor in the Faculty of Science and Humanities of Anna University, Chennai. She presented 40 papers in national and international conferences, and published 25 papers in national and international journals on ELT and Literature.
Dr. John served as the Head of the Dept of English at SSN for 5 years (7 March 2008 to 31 March 2013). During her tenure, she organized the First SSN Creative Writing Contest and the SSN Best Speaker Contest in 2010-2011, and this has become a programme conducted annually. She is the Faculty Coordinator of English Literary Club of SSN (ELC) and The SSN Theatre Club (Lights Out Please), and a member of the editorial board of Vibrations, the quarterly newsletter of SSN.
Dr. John published 27 poems in national and international journals, anthologies and websites. Her poems, “Love Rewritten” & “A Criss-Cross of Cuts” were shortlisted in the All India Poetry Competition organized by The Poetry Society (India) in 2015 & 2017 respectively. Her first collection of poems, Whispers Within, was published in May 2009, and the second collection, Crisscross Cantos, in Feb 2019.
Awards and Honours
Appointed as a member of the Board of Studies in English, SRM Easwari Engineering College (Autonomous), Chennai, July 2019
Appointed as a member of the Board of Studies in English, Vimala College (Autonomous), Thrissur-9, Kerala, for a period of 2 years
Appointed as a member of the Syllabus Sub Committee for English Courses of Anna University, Chennai (Regulation 2017)
Nominated as a member of the Board of Studies in the Faculty of Science and Humanities of Anna University of Technology, Chennai, Nov 2010
Won the Best Teacher Award for the academic year 2007-2008 at SSN College of Engineering
Won the Best Paper Award for the paper, “Fluency Practice in an Engineering Classroom” at the 3rd International and 39th Annual ELTAI Conference held at Sathyabama University, Chennai, Feb 2008
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