May 2, 2023
Dr. Nimeshika Venkatesan – Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
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Education and Research Profile:
Nimeshika Venkatesan, Assistant Professor, Department of English has been engaging with folklore studies for over ten years. She completed her doctoral thesis from Stella Maris College (Autonomous) affiliated to the University of Madras. Her thesis entitled “Dialogic Vernacular Expressivity in the Novelised Saint Narratives of Select Virashaiva Saints” is a contribution towards a transdisciplinary approach in creating a reading framework that integrates theoretical methods from literary criticism and folkloristics to strike a balance between western epistemology and indigenous criticism to examine the South Asian influences of storytelling in select Novelised Saint Narratives of three Virashaiva Sants , Akka Mahadevi, Allamaprabhu and Basavanna. She was awarded the DORA PLUS ERASMUS scholarship from 2018-2019 at the department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore Estonia as a visiting Ph. D scholar. She qualified the Tamil Nadu State Eligibility Test in 2017. Nimeshika received her MA in English in 2013 from Stella Maris College (Autonomous), Chennai in 2013 and acquired her BA English Honours Degree from Christ (Deemed to be) University in 2011, Bangalore Chennai. She is an active member of the international Society for Folk Narrative Research, Society of and the Pilgrimage Studies network a sister concern of EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) wherein she is the social media convenor. Nimeshika is also an academic Counsellor for the Masters in folklore and Cultural studies Program offered by IGNOU. Nimeshika has taught at Stella Maris College for two years where she handled papers with multidisciplinary approaches such as Literature and Gender, philosophy, media and communication for students of communicative English in addition to soft skills and foundational English for student from other varied streams. She has guided students for their Undergraduate research and has also encouraged and students to participate and present at conferences.
Awards and Scholarships:
Social Media Manager for the EASA PILNET (Pilgrimage Studies Network),
European Association of Social Anthropologists 2022.
Awarded the Dora Plus Erasmus Fellowship from September 2018 to May 2019.
Member of Society of Ethnology and Folkloristics since 2019
Member of International Society for Folk Narrative research since 2018
Qualified TN SET conducted by Mother Teresa University for Women, Reg No. 18123488 in September 2017.
Member of the Indian Folklore Congress since 2014
Indira Gandhi Scholarship for Single Girl Child Govt. of India –2008-2011.
Post graduate Indira Gandhi Scholarship for Single Girl Child- 2011-2013
CBSE Merit Scholarship for Single Girl Child (Class X) – 2006
- Research VenturesDelivered a guest lecture for the post graduate students ofEnglish at Stella Maris College on Literature and Mysticism,January 2017, Chennai India.Invited public lecture on Tamil Culture at the Estonian National Museum on 9th October 2018, Tartu, Estonia.
Delivered a guest lecture on Folklore and Literature at Women’s Christian College for the undergraduate students of English for new elective course.
on Literature and Folklore, July 2016, Chennai, India.
Co-Host of the What the Folk Podcast a podcast that features concepts and Theories in folklore studies bringing personal experiences from the lives of the hosts, breaking down academic jargon and to make academics.
accessible, available on mix cloud and Spotify
Co-organizer of an eight-week international lecture series Literature and Folklore Talks “Unravelling Tales: Exploring Intersections betweenFolkloristics and Literature” (LAF Talk 2021) a collaboration with the department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore University of Tartu, Estonia from 8th.
July 2021-26th August 2021.
Course writer for the MA Folklore and Cultural Studies Program (IGNOU).
Special Guest lecture titled “Folkloristics in Literary and Cultural Studies:
a Glimpse into Interdisciplinary Methodologies” for a webinar series on
Research and Methodological Practices organized by St Joseph’s College for Women, Tirupur, Tamil Nadu.
2023: Special Invited Panel Speaker at Vachana 2023, (Panel Title): Folk-verse: Exploring Folk Cultures in the 21st Century, Annual Postgraduate Conference Speaking of Folklore: Examining organized by the Department of English and Cultural Modalities, Medialities, andMethods Studies at Christ (Deemed to be University) Bannerughatta road campus from 10th-11th January, 2023.
Publications:
2022:“Re-narrating Vikram and Vetal: A Visual Adaptation of a Popular Folktale” in Dogo Rangsang, Vol 9.15, (2022): 495-504 indexed in the UGC CARE.
2021: “Skirting Boundaries of Folk and Popular: Role of Intermediality in Shaping Mirabai as a Folk Cultural Icon” in Literary Voice Vol 2.13 (2021): 240-246 indexed in the WebofScience.
“Dialogic Interactions in Vernacular Hinduism: A Perspective onTherukoothu, Folk Ritualistic Theatre of South India” in Kalyan Bharathi vol 36.1 (2021): 48-61 indexed in UGC CARE.
2019: “Detours: Mystical Speech Genres as Vernacular Expressions of Religion.” Volume 7, 2019. http://www.isfnr.org/ISFNR-newsletter.php.
2015: Venkatesan, Nimeshika.”Examining the Surrealist Landscape in Karaikkal Ammaiyar`s ThiruvālangattuMuthātha Thiruppadhikam.” The Investigator 1.2 (2015):123129 Peer Reviewed.
2014: Venkatesan, Nimeshika. “Contextuality and Postmodern Manifestation of Folk Material Culture in Commercial Decorative Art and Artifacts.” Repositioning Folklore
and Indigenous Knowledge Systems” (2014) as book chapter.
Conferences:
| Year | Conference/Webinar/Seminar Description Paper Title |
| 2023 | Special Invited Panel Speaker at Vachana 2023 (Panel Title) Folk-verse: Exploring Folk Cultures in the 21st. Century, Annual Postgraduate Conference Speaking of Folklore: Examining organized by the Department of English and Cultural Modalities, Medialities, and Studies at Christ (Deemed to be University) Methods Bannerughatta road campus from 10th-11th January, 2023. |
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2021 |
International Memory Studies Conference organised. A Method to Memory: a by Centre for Memory Studies organized by IIT Dialogue on Memory as a Tool in Madras, Memory in a Digital Age from 23rd to 25th Ethnography August 2022. (Panel Chair and Co-Author)18th Congress of the International Society for God Will Poke your Eyes’: Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR): Encountering The Ontology of Fear in Emotions in Folk Narrative and Folklife online congress in virtual Zagreb: 5 – 8 September Religious Practices of South 2021. India. Panel: Emotions and Religious Practices. |
| 2019 | Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming Transforming Nature of World, April 14 -17, 2019 at Santiago de Pilgrimage- a Case study of Compostela, Galicia. Southern India. Panel: (Reli02) The changing character of pilgrimages |
| 2018 2018 2017 |
8th International Conference of Young Folklorists: Dialogic Interactions, Folk Reflecting on Disciplinary Ethics in Folkloristics, Aesthetics and the September 19-21, 2018, at Riga, Latvia Therukoothu, a Study. Panel chair: Fieldwork Ethics Asian Studies in Cambridge University and NA University of Tartu. Ways for Cooperation from September 12th-13th, 2018 at the University of Tartu campus (participated) 41st Indian Folklore Congress, Manipur Folkloric Intertextuality and University, November 16th-18th, 2017 at the Dialogism: A Case of the Film Imphal campus, India. Vikram Vedha |
| 2016 | 40th Indian Folklore Congress, October 18th Exploring Mystical Madness -20th, 2016 at Kalina campus, University of in the Riddles of Viraśaiva Mumbai, India. Saint Allamaprabhu. |
| 2015 | 39th Indian Folklore Congress at N. S. Patel Arts From Folk to Popular through College, Anand, Gujarat, 9th -11th October 2015. the Material: – Transposing Folk Cultural Icon Meera into Popular Culture through Literary, Visual and the Artefact: A Study |
| 2014 | 38th Indian Folklore Congress at Centurion Postmodern Manifestation of University of Technology and Management Folk Material Culture in |
| (CUTM), Parlakhemundi, Gajapati, Orissa, 19th – Commercial Decorative Art 21st December 2014. and Artifacts. |
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| 2013 | International Conference on Folklore: Reinventing Literary Nonsense: Subjective Past Through Folk Traditions organized by the and Subversive- a Perspective Centre for Russian Studies, School of Language, on Tamil folk Traditions Literature and Cultural Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 23rd-25th October 2013 |
| 2012 2011 |
National conference on Interfaith Dialogue and Maadhuriya Bhava/ Bridal Peace Building organized by the Department of Mysticism in the Works of English, Stella Maris College (Autonomous), Āndal and St John of the Chennai, 8th – 9th February 2013 Cross. National Symposium on Thinking Subjectivities TheAtman-Dharma-Samskara organized by the Department of English, Christ Trinity: An Indic Journey into University, Bangalore, 9th – 10th February 2011 Subjectivity. |
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