Assistant English
Resume:
Jayashankar R
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o English Literature and Language Teacher
(with 19 years of work experience)
o Soft Skills Trainer
o Life Skills Mentor
o Individual and Group Counsellor
Core Competencies
. Expertise in teaching all aspects of the understanding, appreciation,
critiquing and creation of English Literature in all its genres
. Expertise in imparting total proficiency (listening-speaking-reading-
writing) in the English Language
. Expertise in imparting Soft Skills
. Expertise in imparting Life Skills
Professional
Experience
Kodaikanal Christian College, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu-Head, Department
of English, 06/2013 to 12/2014. Reason for leaving: father's failing
health in Coimbatore
Selected accomplishments:
o Leadership in editing all institutional documentation
o Leadership in mentoring and counselling of students
o Leadership in sensitising campus community on environmental and
ecological issues
o Leadership in monitoring campus medium of communication, i.e., English
Sree Narayana Guru College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu-Assistant
Professor, Department of English, 10/2008 to 05/2013. Reason for
leaving: better job prospect subsequently
Selected accomplishments:
o Leadership (as Convenor) in Student Support & Progression activities
o Leadership in editing all institutional documentation
o Leadership in running Language Lab facility
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, Bihar-Reader, Department of English,
05/2003 to 08/2008. Reason for leaving: mother's ill-health at
Coimbatore
Selected accomplishments:
o Active role in mentoring and counselling wayward university students,
thereby successfully bringing them back to mainstream life and
healthy & positive goals and pursuits
o Active role as part-time voluntary teacher and teacher trainer at
Maitreya Project School-a facility for the deprived and
underprivileged students from in and around Bodh Gaya which is a
socially and educationally backward region
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-Assistant Professor, Department of
English, 11/1996 to 03/2003. Reason for leaving: wanted to pursue
career in a rural and backward region and therefore took up the
challenge when the opportunity arose in Magadh University, Bodh Gaya,
Bihar
Education
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-MPhil in English with a well
commended dissertation on Postcolonial Australian Fiction, 07/1993 to
07/1994
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-MA in English-passed with high
first class, 06/1991 to 05/1993
PSG College of Arts & Science (Autonomous college affiliated to
Bharathiar University)-BA in English Literature-passed with high first
class and first rank in class, 06/1988 to 05/1991
Carmel Garden Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Coimbatore-
Matriculation (Class X) and Higher Secondary (Class XII)-passed with
good marks, 1975 to 1987
Additional Academic Qualification:
Passed and cleared National Eligibility Test for Lectureship (English)
of the University Grants Commission, New Delhi, 1993
Published Work
1.
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Jayashankar, R., Transcendental Deep Ecology: Reflections from Henry
David Thoreau's WALDEN, Kolkata: Power Publishers, 2011. ISBN-13
2.
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Jayashankar, R., The Longing to Belong: Randolph Stow & the Birth
Pangs of Literary Australia, Bangalore: Green Ink, 2013. ISBN-13
Personal Data
Date of Birth: May 09, 1970
Sex: Male
Marital Status: Single
Proficiency in Languages: Speak-English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam
Read-English, Hindi,
Tamil, Malayalam
Write-English, Hindi
Sidelines: Serious Reading-
English Fiction, Prose, Drama, Poetry,
Literary & Cultural Criticism, Cultural
Theory, History, Philosophy, Religion,
Biography, Self Help & Improvement,
Frontiers of Science, Psychology, Travel
Writing
Ornithology & Bird-
watching
Connoisseurship of
Indian Classical Music (both Hindustani
& Carnatic)
Regular practice of
Vipassana (an ancient form of
Meditation)
Expertise in Classical
Western Astrology
Contact Information
Permanent Residential Address: 13/4F Bharathi Park Cross Road No.
7,
Saibaba
Mission PO (Saibaba Colony)
Coimbatore-641 011
Telephone
Mobile: +91-904**-*****
Landline: +91-422-*******
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