Faculty Profile
Department of English
Farhana Fazal
Asst.Professor


Farhana Fazal completed her Post Graduation in English Literature from Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore and Undergraduate Programme in the same field from CMS College, Coimbatore. She has qualified NET and began her academic career in 2019. Since then, she has been teaching diverse genres within literature such as poetry, prose to drama. She has also worked in the ELT field as an OET Interlocutor and English Language Tutor. Farhana Fazal has also qualified BEC Exam of Cambridge University. Other areas of interest include Gender and Sexuality, Popular Culture, Culinary Narratives and Trauma Studies. She has presented several academic papers for national and international seminars. She is passionate about writing and has participated and won numerous writing competitions. This interest has also led her to take up Creative Writing Courses.

Research/Specialisation/Interest: 

  • Diaspora Literature
  • Food Literature and Culinary Narratives
  • American Literature
  • Trauma Studies
  • Contemporary Indian Literature
  •  Conflict Narratives

 

Papers Presented

2022 September- The Culinary and Diasporic Identities: A Study of Madhur Jaffrey’s Climbing the Mango Trees, Amit Majumdar’s The Abundance and Bharti Kitchner’s Pastries at Sacred Heart College, Thevara.

2018 February- The Culinary and Diaspora at Jain University, Bangalore

2018 February- Food and Flavours in Popular Literature at Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore

2017 January- Is Caste Still Prevalent in India : A Study of Responses to Mandal Commision in Newspaper Reports

2014 September- Significance of Human Relations In Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines.