UGC-NET (2012)

UGC-SET(2011)

Certifications:

Modern  and Contemporary American Poetry- University of Pennsylvania

Crafting an Effective Writer- Mount San Jacinto College

Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills, University of Melbourne

Foundations of Virtual Instructions, University of California

The Camera Never Lies, University of London

Professional Experience:

Assistant Professor, Department of English, School of Humanities and Management- 30 July 2018-Present

Assistant Professor, Department of English, SSL, VIT University, Vellore-17 June 2013-28 July 2018

Research Guidance:

No. of PhD Scholars guided at VIT Vellore :2 

No: of PhD scholars at NIT Andhra Pradesh:3

Ms. Krishnaja. T.S-PF131951

Ms. Samikhya Dash-PF132101 

Ms. Sruthi Madhu-PF132202

 

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

 PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED

2024

T. S. Krishnaja & Jose,Soumya (2024). Redefining Catholic Sisterhood: Intersections of Autonomy and Religion in Sacrilege and Nunsense. World Journal of English Language. 14(6)-Q1

 

2023

Dash.S & Jose, Soumya (2023). Spousal Sexual Violence and Invisible Disability. A Case Study of Provoked and Kettyolaanu Ente Malakha. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 1-17-Q1

 

2022

T. S. Krishnaja & Jose, Soumya (2022). Traversing Familial Interlocks: Debunking Gendered Space in Thappad and The Great Indian Kitchen. Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 41(3), 418-431-Q1

 

 

2017

Samjaila Th and Soumya Jose. “Sixties Scoop and First Nations Women: A Study of Drew Hayden Taylor’s Someday. Man in India 97.4(2017)395-402. (Prescribed in the M.A. English syllabus of Sardar Patel University, HP)

Vijayalakshmi.N and Soumya Jose. “From Troubled Waters to Greener Pastures: A Reading of Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West. Man in India 97.10(2017) 153-162. 

Soumya Jose and Sony Jalarajan Raj. “ American Frontier Myth and Black Humour: A Study of Marsha Norman’s Hold Up.” Alfomine International Journal. 4.6(2017) 3-10.

 

2016

• Jose, Soumya. “Thriving in the Digital Reality of Cyber World: Towards a New Teaching and Learning Design.” Media Watch. 7.1(2016). Scopus Indexed

• Vijayalakshmi N and Soumya Jose. “ Evolution of a Liberated African American Woman:  A Critical Appraisal of Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel” Man in India. 5 (2016). Scopus Indexed.

• Jose, Soumya. “Mutualisation of News through an Engaging Media is a Safer Bet in the Age of Sustainability and Diminishing Advertising Revenue. Editorial. Media Watch. 7.2(2016). Scopus Indexed

• Self-Abomination and Personal Failure: A Reading of Kalamu Ya Salaam’s Play, The Quest. Language in India. 16.7(2016)

 

2015

• Jose, Soumya and Vijayalakshmi N. Deconstructing the African American Womanhood: A Critical Analysis of the Recalcitrant Black Woman in Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness. Labyrinth.6.4(2015)

 

2014

• Jose Soumya and Jalarajan Sony Raj. 2014. “Bildungsroman of a Black Female Subject: A Reading of Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird’s Sing.” Writers Editors Critics Vol4 No1 March 2014.

• Jose Soumya and Jalarajan Sony Raj. 2014. “Generational Dissension in August Wilson’s Fences.” International Research Journal of Management, Sociology and Humanities. ISSN-2277-9809.

• Jose, Soumya and Jalarajan Sony Raj. 2014. “Transcending Black Shame: An Investigation into August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson” AcademicDeliberations. February 2014. ISSN: 2348-5833.

• Jose, Soumya and Jalarajan Sony Raj. 2014. “Recognition and Edification of the Relic of the Past: An Inquiry into August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson”.Journal of Development Management and Communication. March 2014. ISSN: 2348-7739

 

2013

• Jose, Soumya and Jalarajan Sony Raj.2013 “Shamanism and African Identity: An Exploration into August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.”91-102. LabyrinthVol. 4 No1 January 2013 (ISSN 0976-0814)

• Jose, Soumya. 2013. “The Father-Son Conflict in August Wilson’s Jitney. 115-19. Labyrinth Vol.4-NO.4 October 2013 (ISSN0 976-0814)

2012

• Jose, Soumya.2012. “Third World within the First: A Critique of August Wilson’s Two Trains Running”. Literary Insight. 100-105. (ISSN 0975 -6248)

• Jose, Soumya. 2012“Poetics of Resistance: A Reading of the Select Poems of Tory Dent.”Misbah. 63- 68. 2012(ISSN 0976- 2523)

• Jose, Soumya and Jalarajan, Sony Raj. 2012. “The Blues and the Black: A Reading of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”. Research Scholar. 67-71.2012 (ISSN 2249-6696)

• Jose, Soumya.2012. “Christianity Versus African Traditional Religions: A Study of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and The Piano Lesson”. 96-101. Journal of Literature& Aesthetics.

• Jose, Soumya and Jalarajan, Sony Raj. 2012. “Expressing the Repressed: The Shocking Intimacies in the Select Poems of Sharon Olds”. Contemporary Discourse. 228-231.Vol 3 Issue 2 July 2012 (ISSN -976-3686)

• Jose, Soumya and Jalarajan, Sony Raj. 2012. “Journey of a Woman through Home, Hearth and Heart: A Reading of Jaishree Misra’s Ancient Promises. Labyrinth. 33-38. Vol. 3 Issue 4 October 2012 (ISSN 0976- 0814)

• Jose, Soumya and Florence S.2012 “Insanity and Identity in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and Seven Guitars.”Literary Innovations.103-113.Vol 1 Issue 1 September-March 2012 (ISSN2279-0128)

• Jose, Soumya and Florence S.2012 “Artefact and Preservation of African Culture: August Wilson’s Radio Golf.” Teresian Journal of English Studies.54-68.Vol 4 No, 1 October 2012 (ISSN 0975- 6302)

 

 

2011

• Jose, Soumya. 2011 “Shamanism and Self –Actualization: A Study of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”. Contemporary Discourse.307-310.Vol-2 Issue-2-July2011(ISSN 0976-3686)

• Jose, Soumya.2011. “Shamanism and Redemption: A Study of August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean”.Contemporary Vibes. 15-16. vol-7-Issue25- October 2011 (ISSN 0975-1750
• Jose, Soumya.2011. “Liberation and Recognition of Cultural Roots: An Appraisal of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson”.Manaviki. 186-191. vol-2- Issue 2 2011 (ISSN 0976-0830)

• Jose, Soumya and Florence, S. 2011. “Detangling the Intricacies of Filial and Maternal Relationships: A Study of Marsha Norman’s Getting Out.”Journal of the Annamalai University,Part A Humanities.281-288. Vol-47 2011(ISSN 0517- 872X)

• Jose, Soumya and Florence, S. 2011. “Ethnic Identity Crisis:Images of Indian Diaspora in K.S. Maniam’s The Return”. Voice International. 9-13.Special Vol. -1.2011 (ISSN 2229-3248)

• Jose, Soumya and Jalarajan, Sony Raj. 2011. “Abortive Assimilation: A Critique of August Wilson’s Two Trains Running”. Littcrit.100-112.2011 (ISSN 0970-8049)

 

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS:

          

• Soumya Jose. “International Women’s Media Foundation.” Sage International Encylopedia of  Mass Media and Society. 2020

• Soumya Jose. “Loyalty Points.” The SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society-Edited By Wherry, Frederick F & Juliet B.Schor. 2015.

• Soumya Jose. “Direct to Consumer Advertising.”The SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society- Edited By Wherry, Frederick F & Juliet B.Schor. 2015.

 

 

CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS 

 

2023

 

Samikhya Dash and Soumya Jose. “An Indo German Case Study of Scarred Bodies. Regaining Agency Through Fashion and Arts. Diachronic Dimesions of German Language, Literature and Culture.U of Kerala. 2023.

Arya Ann Johns and Soumya Jose. “Interethnic Identity and Migrant Trauma: A Cross Cultural Analysis of Chinese Indian Community in Rita Chowdhary’s Chinatown Days. The Gargoan College, 2023.

 

2022

Samikhya Dash and Soumya Jose. “Advertisement and Social Media: An Open Ground for Body Shaming.” Media and Language and Literature:Current Indo-German Approaches. U of Kerala, 2022.

 

 2020

Soumya Jose et al. “Memories as Antidotes. An Analysis of the Psychotherapeutic Plot of Marie Clements Now Look What You Made Me Do and Drew Hayden Taylor’s God and the Indian.” Ed.Priti Bala Sharma. 2020. Authors Press

 

2018

• Vijayalakshmi N and Soumya Jose. “Disregard for the Cultural Roots and Self-Destruction: An Exploration into Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation or Re-Education of Undine. Ed. Sayan Dey. Poetomachia:The Indigenous Voice

• Soumya Jose and Sony Jalarajan Raj. “Resilience of the Rape Victims: A Reading of Lynn Nottage’s Ruined.” Ed. Sayan Dey. Poetomachia:The Indigenous Voice. Cambridge Scholars.2018

• Samjaila Th , Soumya Jose, and Sony Jalarajan Raj. “Textualizing the Ambivalent Immigrant: A Reading of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane .” The Voice of an Exile:A Collection of Critical Articles on Diaspora. Ed. Dr.K.V.Dominic and Dr.S.Barathi.Authors Press, 2018

• Swapna Gopinath, Sony Jalarajan and Soumya Jose. “ Ecofeminist Moorings in Globalized India: Literary Discourse and Interpretations: Literature and Eco Feminism: Intersectional and International Voices. Ed. Douglas. A.Vakoch and Sam Mickey. Routledge, 2018

• Vijayalakshmi and Soumya Jose. “Voicing Her Stories: An Appraisal of Pearl Cleage’s A song for Coretta.” Subaltern Voice: A Critical Stance. Ed. K.Ravichandran and C.Anita. Emerald, 2018

• Samjaila Th and Soumya Jose. “Domestic Violence and Aboriginal Women: An Analysis of Marie Clements’ Now Look What You Made Me Do. Subaltern Voice: A Critical Stance. Ed. K.Ravichandran and C.Anita. Emerald, 2018

 

2017

• Vijayalakshmi and Soumya Jose. “Defiance of the Subaltern: A Critical Analysis of Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West and Lynn Nottage’s Poof. Subalternity and Literature. Ed. Karkuzali.Authors Press, 2017

• Samjaila Th and Soumya Jose. “Overcoming Repression via Art: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Drew Hayden Taylor’s A Girl Who Loved Her Horses.” Subalternity and Literature. Ed. Karkuzali. Authors Press, 2017

• Samjaila Th, Soumya Jose, and Sony Jalarajan Raj. “Ecosophy and Vision Quest:An Exploration into Drew Hayden Taylor’s The Boy in the Tree House.” Perspectives on Ecocritical Studies. Ed. Ram Avadh Prajapati. 2017

• Sony Jalarajan Raj, Susan Massey, and Soumya Jose. “Peer Review and Reflective Teaching Practices: An Effective Mechanism for Quality Enhancement in Higher Education.Ed. Artur Lugmayr and Doug VogelInternational Ambient Media Association (Finland). 2017

 

 

2016

• Soumya Jose and Sony Jalarajan Raj. “ Shunned Voice: Third Gender in Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps Around the Fire.” Ed. Avandh Kumar. Indian Writing in English: Themes and Techniques.Vangamay Publication. 165-172

• Vijayalakshmi N and Soumya Jose. “Defying the Stereotypes: An Exploration into Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind. Ed. Bijeender Singh. Race and Ethnicity

• Soumya Jose and Sony Jalarajan Raj. “Self-Empowerment and Cultural Lineage: An Analysis of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson.” Ed. Bijeender Singh. Race and Ethnicity

 

 

2015

• Jalarajan Sony Raj and Soumya Jose. “ Invincible Resistance: An Appraisal of the Indefatigable Female in Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi.”.Ed. Bijender Singh. Indian Dalit Literature: Critical Ruminations. Authorspress. New Delhi, 2015. 25-32. ISBN 978-81-7273-965-2.

• “Indian Omnipresence in Global Literature: Textualizing the Diasporic Metaphors in K.S. Maniam’s The Return and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake” World English Fiction: Bridging Oneness. Ed. K.V.Dominic. Yking books. 2015. ISBN. 978-93-82532-83-5

• Jalarajan Sony Raj and Soumya Jose. “ Throttled by the Recurring Themes. A Bane on Indian English Fiction. Charting New Approaches in Indian English FictionEd. Saikat Banerjee. Yking Books.2015. ISBN. 978-93-85528-00-2

• Soumya Jose and Sony Jalarajan Raj “Unquenched Lust: Female Contentment and Sexual Escapades  in  Anita  Nair’s  Ladies  Coupe.  Indian  Women  Novelists:  Feminist Reverberations. Ed. Bijeender Singh. Thematic Publication. 2015. ISBN.978-93-83192-94-6

Administrative Responsibilities:

Head, School of Humanities and Management -10 Sept 2018-Present

Chairperson BoS (English, Management, Spanish, French, Sanskrit) School of Humanities and Management-May 2021-Present

Faculty Coordinator, Literary and Debate Club-August 2018-Present

Warden, Ghattaprabha Hall of Residence- 4 April 2022 to 29 Oct 2022

Warden, Munneru Hall of Residence- 1 Nov 2022-Present

Member, Women’s Cell-2019-Present

Representative for Women, Disciplinary Action Committee for Hostellers-14 Nov 2023-Present

Member, Covocation Committee-2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Awards and Honors:

Research Awards from VIT Vellore  for the AY 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18