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CURRICULUM VITAE
SUNDARA RAJ KRISHNASWAMY IYENGAR
A. PERSONAL DETAILS:
Title: Dr.
First name: Sundara Raj
Gender: Male
Father’s Name (Surname): Krishnaswamy Iyengar
Date of Birth: 15 April 1953
Place and Country of birth: Kanakapura, India
Marital Status: Married with two children
Nationality: Indian
OFFICIAL ADDRESS:
Professor and Head,
Department of English,
Chairman, School of Arts and Humanities,
Reva University.
Kattigenahalli,Yelahanka,
Bangalore – 560064
PERMANENT RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
No. 327, KRISHNAA, 4 Main,
9 Cross, Avalahalli Extension, BSK III stage,
BANGALORE 560085
India
CORRESPONDENCE:
E-mails:acdzht@r.postjobfree.com /
Telephone: 080-********
Mob: 00-91-968-***-****
Languages known: English, Kannada, Hindi, Tamil.
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B: Education
(Only Post Graduate qualifications are specified beginning with the latest.)
Degree/ Name of the
Diploma University/Institution Major Subjects/ Topic of Research
& Year/s of the Course
Thesis: “Hidden Agendas in News” –
Ph.D. in English & Foreign Languages
English University (EFLU) [formerly A Critical Discourse Analysis of News
(Linguistics Central Institute of English & Reportage.
Foreign Languages – CIEFL],
and
Phonetics) Hyderabad. India.
1990-93
M.A. University of Lancaster, Systemic Linguistics, Critical Discourse
Lancaster, U.K. Analysis, Stylistics, Pragmatics,
1986-87. Sociolinguistics, English Language Teaching,
Computer Assisted English Language Learning.
Thesis: Indianization as a Stylistic Device.
M.Litt. EFLU, Hyderabad. India. English Phonetics, English Syntax,
(Now English Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Indian
renamed as 1984-86 Writing in English.
Thesis: “Raja Rao’s Kanthapura- A Stylistic
M.Phil.)
Study”.
Post- EFLU, Hyderabad. India. English Language Teaching (ELT),
Graduate 1983-84 Linguistics, Indian Writing in English.
Diploma in Thesis: Teaching English Poetry for Degree
the students of Bangalore University.
Teaching of
English.
(PGDTE)
M.A. University of English, American and Commonwealth
Mysore, Mysore. India. Literatures.
1975-77
Post- University of English, American and Commonwealth
Graduate Mysore, Mysore. India. Literatures.
Diploma 1974-75
in English
M.Ed. University of Mental Hygiene, Educational Statistics,
Mysore, Mysore. India. Philosophy and Sociology of Education,
1973-74 Educational Administration.
Thesis: A Study of the relationship between
internal assessment marks and S.S.L.C.Public
Examination marks of High School students of
Mysore City.
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C: Employment/Teaching Experience: Total number of years of teaching experience: 36
Taught the following courses:
1. English Language / Literatures in English / Cultural Studies
2. Communicative English / Linguistics / ELT / ESL/EFL/ESP
College/ Date of Date of
University Joining Leaving Designation
Reva University. Professor and Head,
Kattigenahalli,Yelahanka, Department of English,
1 March -
Bangalore – 560064 Chairman, School of Arts and
2014 Humanities,
Directorate of
Correspondence Courses
and Distance Education, 26 -09-2013 29 February Coordinator of Studies (English)
Bangalore University, 2014
Bangalore 56001
Department of English, 18-08-2011 30 April 2013 Professor & Principal
APS College, Bangalore (Relocated Scale of Pay: Rs.37,000-
560 019 in the parent Rs.57,000 Plus admissible
Institution) DA,CCA,HRA etc.
Total Gross Salary.Rs.1,15,559.
28-08-2009
Department of Foreign 15-08-2011
Languages, English Section, Professor of Linguistics
University of Nizwa,
Nizwa, Oman.
Faculty of Languages,
26-10-2008
English Department, 30-07-2007 Professor of Linguistics
Al-Fateh University
Tripoli, Libya
22-10-2008
Acharya Patashala College, Selection Grade Lecturer in
01-11-1994
Bangalore University, English
Bangalore. India
(The three different colleges
under the common management
Senior Grade Lecturer in
– APS EDUCATIONAL 27-07-1987 31-10-1994
English
TRUST, Bangalore) (on a permanent
basis) 26-07-1987
26-07-1981
Lecturer in English
31-03-1981
(Temporarily)
26-07-80
Lecturer in English
Bangalore Institute of
Technology (BIT), Bangalore **-**-**-**-**-** Lecturer in English
University, Bangalore. India
The National College,
Bangalore University,
Basavanagudi, **-**-**-**-**-** Lecturer in English
Bangalore.India
Vishveshwarapura College,
Bangalore University, 15-11-78 8-1-80 Lecturer in English
Bangalore.India
Kalpataru College,
Bangalore University, Tiptur. **-**-**-**-**-** Lecturer in English
India
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St.Philomena College,
University of Mysore, Puttur. **-**-**-**-*-** Lecturer in English
S.K. India
D. Administrative Experience: Had been working as Principal of APS Commerce College, Bangalore,
till 30 May 2013.
E. Research Projects Undertaken
Name of Collaborators in the TOPIC / SUBJECT Year College or
Institution
Original Research undertaken
English Curriculum for Regional College
British Council and Returned Study
Undergraduate Classes 1988- Of Education,
Fellows
89 Mysore. India
Preparation of Industrial Cases Indian Institute of
No collaboration for Post-Graduate Management 1997- Management,
Programme 98 Bangalore. India
University Grants Commission, Regional Teaching Large Classes 1997- Acharya Patashala
Office, Hyderabad. 99 Evening College,
Bangalore. India
University Grants Commission and Representation of India in the 1997- American Studies
American Studies Research Center, US media 2000 Research Center,
(ASRC), Hyderabad. Hyderabad. India
University Grants Commission, Bangalore Social Construction of Media 2005 - Acharya Patashala
Region, Bangalore. Images in the Post-Colonial 07 Evening College,
context. Bangalore, India
A Comparative Study of Mood,
University Grants Commission, Bangalore Transitivity and Theme Patterns 2008- Acharya Patashala
Region, Bangalore. in English and Kannada from a Evening College,
Systemic Functional Linguistics Bangalore, India
Perspective.
F. Publications
“A Structural Study of R.K.Narayan’s An Astrologer’s Day”, FOCET NEWS, October 1989.
(i)
“Grice Maxims in Kannada”, Occasional Papers in Linguistics, No.6, 1991, CIEFL,
(ii)
Hyderabad.
Learn to Learn – 1: A Manual of I PU English Text Book, New Century Book House, 1995.
(iii)
Chennai.
Learn to Learn –2: A Manual of II PU English Text Book, Interline Publications, Bangalore.
(iv)
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“The English Teachers’ Dilemma” – Deccan Herald, October 17, 1999.
(v)
“How do we save Kannada?” – Deccan Herald, December 8, 2000.
(vi)
“The Head and the Tail” – Deccan Herald, January 23, 2001
(vii)
“Language or Skill” – Deccan Herald, April 15, 2001.
(viii)
“Representations of India” – Deccan Herald, July 3, 2005
(ix)
“Self portrait in ink”- Deccan Herald, September 25, 2005.
(x)
“How not to make a textbook?” – Deccan Herald, October 11, 2005.
(xi)
“A crown full of feathers!” – Deccan Herald, June 11, 2006.
(xii)
“Of memory and identity” - Deccan Herald, August 20, 2006.
(xiii)
“Education is forgotten” - Deccan Herald, September 5, 2006.
(xiv)
“Dense Narrative” – The Hindu, August 17, 2007
(xv)
“The Charming Writer” – The Hindu, September 7, 2007
(xvi)
(xvii) “A novel attempt” – The Hindu, September 28, 2007
(xviii) “Backed by belief” – The Hindu, November 16, 2007
“Folktales with a difference” – Deccan Herald, December 9, 2007
(xix)
“Of war and History” – Deccan Herald, January 13, 2008.
(xx)
“A man of many interests” – The Hindu, February 1, 2008
(xxi)
(xxii) “Holding a time” – The Hindu, February 15, 2008
(xxiii) “In a League of his Own” – Deccan Herald, April 20, 2008.
(xxiv) “Meeting memory and reality” – The Hindu, May 2, 2008.
“A context for history” – Deccan Herald, May 25, 2008.
(xxv)
(xxvi) "What it is to be a Christian?" – Deccan Herald, January 18, 2009.
(xxvii) "Holding ones own time" – The Hindu, March 22, 2009.
(xxviii) "Throwing light on a valiant queen" – The Hindu, May 4, 2012.
(xxix) "A large Canvas" – The Hindu, September 7, 2012.
“Chennai, down the line” – Deccan Herald, October 28, 2012
(xxx)
(xxxi) “Old and new make a lovely brew” – The Hindu, July 11, 2013
(xxxii) “Nostalgic trip” – Deccan Herald, September 8, 2013
(xxxiii) “It pays to care” – The Hindu, September 13, 2013
Forthcoming:
"Puras in Raja Rao's Kanthapura and U.R.Anantha Murthy's Bharatipura – A Postcolonial
statement in Indian cultural setting." (to be published in Sahitya Akademy Journal, India)
“Establishing Frontiers of Karnataka: A Cultural Study of a Few Kannada Poems.” (to be published
in Journal of South Asian Culture, Sri Lanka)
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“Enter the Giant - Conceptualizing Consumer Culture through Systemic Linguistic Analysis.”
(under consideration by The Journal of Language and Politics, United Kingdom)
" "nimma amman" – The structure of Mood in Kannada Abuses" (under consideration by The
International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, India)
Under Preparation:
"The Language of Middle Class in Kannada films – A socio-cultural study of Raj Kumar's
dialogues"
"A Systemic Linguistic Study of the Thematic and Transitivity patterns in Kannada Language".
"Representation of Subaltern in the media"
The above are publications in English. Besides, a number of creative and critical articles have been
published in my mother tongue (Kannada)
G. Affiliations with Professional Bodies and Societies
Professional Organization Year of Grade of
Selection Membership
International Pragmatics Association (IPRA), 1987 Life Member
Antwerp, Belgium.
International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign 1989 Member
Language (IATAFEL), London, U.K.
Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of other 1991 Member
Languages (TESOL), Virginia, USA.
Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), University of 1987 Member
Lancaster, Lancaster, UK.
Indian Association for English Studies (IAES), New Delhi. 1985 Member
India.
International Systemic Linguistics Association, India. 2001 Life Member
Indo-American Centre for International Studies (IACIS),
(formerly American Studies Research Centre-ASRC), 1986 Life Member
Hyderabad, India.
Founder/
The Forum of College English Teachers (FOCET), Bangalore, President/
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India. 1981 Convener/
Active Life
Member
H. Professional Experience
Organization Year of Nature of Experience and Responsibility
Stay
(from - to)
Was involved in the production of textbooks, curriculum,
The Forum of College recognizing/creating resource persons in several areas of
English Teachers 1981- knowledge related to English teaching (Language and
(FOCET), Bangalore. Literature) and organizing workshops, seminars, symposia,
India conferences.
Was associated with the development of a course called
“Written Analysis and Communication” (WAC); wrote
Indian Institute of 1995-2000
Management (IIMB), many industrial cases for the classroom analysis at the
Bangalore. India Institute.
New Century Book 1995-98 Worked as a member of an advisory panel of experts for
House (NCBH), Chennai. the production of English textbooks and workbooks for the
India students of +2 in the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh
and Karnataka.
This is a small group of discourse analysts consisting of
VAGARTHA 2000- linguists, sociologists, teachers and research students.
(A forum for studying Analysis of a wide variety of discourses on a periodical
discourses critically) basis has been a wonderful academic experience.
I. Additional information
I Academic Positions held:
(i) Research Associate in the Department of Education of University of Mysore, during the year
1972-73;
(ii) British Council Scholar during the years 1986-88, Visited many Universities in UK, France
and Germany.
(iii) External examiner for M.Phil. and Ph.D., students in many Indian Universities.
(iv) Served on the Academic Council of CIEFL during the years 1984-85 and 1990-91.
(v) Research Guide for Ph.D. students in English, Bangalore University, India, since 1995 and so
far guided 5 students for their doctoral dissertations.
(vi) Guest faculty at the Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, India, 1995 - 2007.
II Seminars, Conferences, Workshops (wherein papers were presented):
34th All India English Teachers’ Conference, "Language Vs Literature", 28-30, December
(i)
1983. Institute of English, University of Kerala, Tiruvananthapuram.
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UGC sponsored Seminar: “Communicative Teaching of English," 15-17, February 1986,
(ii)
Department of English, Loyola Autonomous College, Chennai.
Winter Workshop: “Current Issues in English Language Teaching/English for Special
(iii)
Purposes," 20-23 January 1986, Foreign Languages Section, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore.
(iv) Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference, 21-23, April 1987, University of Lancaster,
UK.
(v) International Pragmatics Conference, 14-21, August 1987, University of Antwerp, Antwerp,
Belgium.
British Council Workshop: “Teacher Development Groups in India," 25 -30, November 1988,
(vi)
British Council Division, Anna Salai, Chennai.
British Council Returned Study Fellows Meet : “Management of English Language
(vii)
Teaching”. 9-20 January 1989, CFTRI, Mysore.
ABC Seminar: “Computers in Daily Life," 8-10, September 1989, Association of British
(viii)
Council Scholars, Hotel Connemara, Chennai.
British Council Workshop: “Language Through Literature” under the guidance of Dr. Jane
(ix)
Spiro of the University of Nottingham, UK, 6-8, February 1990, Regional Institute of
English, Bangalore.
National Seminar: “Stylistics, Semiotics and Teaching of Literature,” 3 -5, October 1990,
(x)
CIEFL, Hyderabad.
National Seminar: “Lexical Semantics,” 28-29, January 1991, Telugu University, Hyderabad.
(xi)
International Summer Institute in Functional Linguistics, 29 July – 29 August 1991, CIEFL,
(xii)
Hyderabad.
(xiii) UGC Refresher Course in English, 7-31, March 1994, Academic Staff College, University of
Mysore, Mysore.
All India Seminar on “Current Trends in Language and Literature,” 26 February – 1 March
(xiv)
1997, Regional Institute of English, Jnanabharathi, Bangalore.
(xv) Five-Day Workshop for College English teachers on Pre-University English TextBook,
organized by Government of Karnataka, 24-28 March 1997, Bangalore.
UGC National Conference, 4-8 March 1998, “Crisis in English Studies / English Language
(xvi)
Teaching” jointly organized by Acharya Patashala Evening College, Bangalore and Regional
Institute of English, Bangalore.
UGC Seminar, 28-29 November 1998; “Literature and Nationalism”, Kongadiyappa College,
(xvii)
Doddaballapur.
National Seminar, 2-4, March 1999, “ESL Issues: Teaching and Testing”, Jnanabharathi,
(xviii)
Regional Institute of English, Bangalore.
All India Seminar, 26-29 February 2000, “English Language and Literature in the New
(xix)
Millennium”, Regional Institute of English, Jnanabharathi, Bangalore.
National Symposium, 14-16 February 2001, “New Directions in English Studies”, Central
(xx)
Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad.
Two-Day workshop, 6-7 July 2001, “Rethinking the Disciplines”, Centre for the Study of
(xxi)
Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore and Centre for Social Research, Christ College,
Bangalore.
(xxii) International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress, 1-17, December, 2003, Regional
Centre of Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Lucknow, Papers presented:
“Halliday’s Systemic Linguistics: A boon or bane?”, “Social Construction of Language of
Law”.
Organized a one-day seminar on “Problems of UGC Scale PU Teachers”, APS College of
(xxiii)
Commerce, N.R.Colony, Bangalore, Gave the introductory note: “The Hamlet predicament
of College Teachers”, 24 March 2004.
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(xxiv) Gave a lecture on “Social Theories and Kannada Criticism”, in the Department of Post
Graduate Studies in Kannada, Bangalore University, Tumkur Centre, on 12 April 2004.
(xxv) UGC Sponsored 2-Day Workshop on I and II Semester Syllabus of General English of
Bangalore University, The National College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore, 23-24 July 2004.
(xxvi) Deputed as Resource Person by the PU Education Department of Karnataka for a 2-day
workshop held for English teachers in Chitradurga District, 5 August 2004
(xxvii) Gave two lectures at the Jain College, JC Road, Bangalore, on the new English textbooks of
Bangalore University on 6th and 7th September 2004.
(xxviii)UGC Sponsored Third International Seminar-cum-Workshop on English Grammar, 17-21
December 2004, Department of English, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar,
Guntur, A.P. Paper Presented: “Breaking the Barriers: Critical Discourse Analysis and
Cultural Studies”.
(xxix) Gave a workshop for English teachers on “Research Issues in English” on 17 Jun e 2005, at
the Jain College, JC Road, Bangalore.
(xxx) UGC sponsored National Seminar: “English in Media”, 21-22 July 2005, Department of
English, JMJ College for Women, Tenali, A.P. Plenary Paper: “Media Reportage: A Locus
of Social Struggle”.
(xxxi) Third International Congress on English Grammar, 23-27 January 2006, Sona College of
Technology, TPT Road, Salem, Tamil Nadu. Paper: “Interrogating Culture through
Hallidayan Systemic Grammar”
(xxxii) International Seminar on “Contemporary Trends in Language, Discourse, and Culture
Studies,” January 20-21, 2007, Guru Nanak Dev University, Department of English,
Amritsar, Punjab, India. Paper: “Enter the Giant - Conceptualizing Consumer Culture
through Systemic Linguistic Analysis.”
(xxxiii)National Seminar: “Indianness in the Novels of Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja
Rao”, 28-29 June 2007, Department of English, Government College for Women, Guntur,
Andhra Pradesh. India. Plenary Paper: “Indianization as a Stylistic Device: A Stylistic Study
of Raja Rao’s Kanthapura”.
(xxxiv) Tenth International Conference of Forum of Contemporary Theory, Baroda: “Thinking
Territory: Affect and Attachment towards Land in South Asia”, 16-19 December 2007,
Department of English, Goa University, Goa, India. Paper: “Establishing Frontiers of
Karnataka: A Cultural Study of a Few Kannada Poems”.
(xxxv) i-mean International Conference, "Transparency Vs Opacity – The Problem of Creative
Translation", 13-15, University of West Anglia, Bristol, UK. (paper was presented
inabsentia)
(xxxvi) International ELT Conference: "Omanization of English – A Sociolinguistic Agenda", 20-21
April 2011, Sultan Quboos University, Sultanate of Oman.
National UGC Seminar on Resistance Studies – "Silence as a form of Resistence",
(xxxvii)
Plenary Speaker, 19-20, August 2011, PA College, Tiptur, India.
(xxxviii) National Conference on ELT – ""Should ELT be the business of only the British? - A
Linguistic, Cultural and Social response to English training for Indian English
teachers",(Paper presented in absentia) 26-28, December, 2012. National College, Trichy,
India.
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III References:
1. Professor Abraham Panavelil, Professor of English, Department of Foreign Languages,
University of Nizwa, Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman, E-Mail: acdzht@r.postjobfree.com
2. Professor Ayetallah Mohammed Alabadi, Adviser to the Chancellor, University of Nizwa,
Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman. E-Mail: acdzht@r.postjobfree.com
3. Dr.U.R.Anantha Murthy, Distinguished writer and a cultural critic: Former President, Sahitya
Akademi, New Delhi; Vice Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University,: Professor of English,
University of Mysore.) 498, 6-A Main, RMV II Stage, BANGALORE 560 094 India. E-Mail:
acdzht@r.postjobfree.com
4. Dr.K.V.Tirumalesh, Visiting Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Literature
111 A Phillps Hall/628, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1323, USA E-mail:
acdzht@r.postjobfree.com
5. Professor Geoffrey N. Leech, Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language,
University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4yt, UK. E-mail: acdzht@r.postjobfree.com
6. Professor Norman Fairclough, Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language,
University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4yt, UK. E -mail: acdzht@r.postjobfree.com
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J. PERSONAL STATEMENT:
I feel I am a hard working and enthusiastic person who is extremely passionate about my
dreams, desires and hobbies. I like those small pleasures that one sees oneself as a member
of a team in an academic / intellectual setting.
I yearn to take responsibilities and discharge them successfully.
I prepare myself at every point of time, to take up the myriad of challenges that life
throws at me with optimism.
K. VERIFICATION OF DATE AND PLACE OF APPLICATION:
I certify that the statements made by me on my CV are true, complete and correct. I
understand that any false statement or withholding any information may provide
grounds for withdrawal of any offer of appointment or cancellation of employment.
Date: March, 20, 2014
Place: Bangalore, India. K. SUNDARA RAJ
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