P. Merin Wilson

Merin Wilson is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English (Shift I), Madras Christian College and has more than  13 years of teaching experience.  She has received her MA English degree from the University of Hyderabad (UoH) and her BA Honors degree from M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara. She is deeply interested in reading and writing about Women’s Writing, Cultural Studies, Psychological Fiction, Memory Studies.

UG: Literary FormsI& II, Grammar and linguistics, History of English Literature, Romantic Age, British Literature I, American Literature, Women’s Writing, Myth and Literature, European and Tamil Classics, Postmodern Survey

PG: Chaucer and Elizabethan Literature, Gender and Literature, Cultural Studies, ELTT

1. Presented a paper titled ‘Food, Memory and Identity in N Muthusamy’s Ghee Stain  at the ‘Food, Memory and Machines’ Workshop organized by the Indian Network of Memory Studies ,IIT Madras(17-20,August 2021)
2. Co-presented a paper titled ‘Engendering the syllabi: A survey of gender representations in the mainstream curriculum and the social imaginary ‘ at the ‘International Conference on  Language, Literature and Culture’, December 2017 at Pune.
3. Presented a paper titled ‘Litanies of the girl protagonist: Janaki, Jessica and justice’ at the ‘International Conference on Indian Literature as World Literature’, January 2018 at EFLU, Hyderabad.
4. Presented a paper entitled  “Notions of ‘purity’ and ‘pollution’ in Indian urban space” at SICON SPACE 2017, Manjeri. (January 2017)
5. Presented a paper entitled “Mommy blogging and Digital Domesticity” for the seminar ‘New feminist writings: emancipation to representation’  at Pondicherry University(March 2017)