Vice-Chancellor's Profile

 

 

DR. A. KALYANI,

VICE-CHANCELLOR,

TAMIL NADU OPEN UNIVERSITY,

DOTE CAMPUS, GUINDY,

CHENNAI -600 025.

TAMIL NADU.

 

PHONE NO. : 044-2235 1414

FAX NO.        : 044-2220 1199

EMAIL           :

 

 1.         Age and Date of Birth            :    52 years, 04.03.1956

  

2.         Educational Qualification       :   M.A.,M.Phil., Ph.D., (English)

  

3.         Administrative Experience     :  Principal,

                                                          Baktavatchalam Memorial

College for Women, Korattur

Chennai – 600 080.

(1997-2009)


                    * Vice-Principal,

   Baktavatchalam Memorial

  College for Women, Korattur

  Chennai – 600 080.

  (1994-1997) 

 

4.         Teaching Experience               :*         20 years in college  

 

5.         Other Academic Activities     :*         Served in Anna Adarash College for

                                                                  Women, Chennai
 

    *    Served as a Controller of Examination &

as a lecturer in English department

Baktavatchalam Memorial

College for Women for14 years 

 

    *    Examiner,

Discipline Committee

University of Madras
 

   *    Chairman for question paper setting
                  Certificate and Diploma
                  Courses in English
                  Madurai Kamaraj University

 

   *     Co-ordinator,

Inter Collegiate Cultural

Programme-Shekeinah

Inter collegiate competitions

 

6.         Membership                            :   *         Member

                                                                       Tamil Nadu State Council

                                                                       for Higher Education

 

                                                             *          Member Syndicate

                                                                        University of Madras

                                                                                                                                       

                                                             *          Member        
                                                                        Academic Council

                                                                        University of Madras

                                                                                                                                        

                                                             *          Member
                                                                        Selection Committee for the

                                                                        Best College Awards

                                                                        (2006-2008)

                                                                        Bharathiar University                                                                               

                                                                        Board of Studies for English

                                                                        Thiruvalluvar University

                                                                        Vellore

                                                                                                                                   

                                                           *          Member
                                                                      Academic Council

                                                                      DKM College

                                                                      Thiruvalluvar University

                                                                      Vellore

 

 *          Member

                                                                      University Representative

                                                                      College Governing Body

                                                                       Sri Saraswathi College of Education

 

           *          Member

            Nominee of the University

            Managing Body

            Pachaiyappa’s College for Women, Kancheepuram

 

           *          Member

            Courses and Curriculum

            Development Committee

            University of Madras 
 

           *          Member

            Accounts and Audit Committee,

            University of Madras

 

          *          Member

           Standing Committee of

           Autonomous Colleges

           University of Madras
 

          *          Member

           Recognition, Affiliation

           Inspection Committee

          University of Madras

 

         *          Member

          Principal & Lecturers

          Recruitment

          Formation of Selection Committees

          Sri Saraswathi College of Education

 

         *          Member

          Committee to frame

          Regulations for conduct of

          Convocation in colleges

          throughout Tamil Nadu 

 

       *          Member

        High power committee

        For implementation of CBCS in

        UG / PG courses, Chennai
 

      *          Member

       Procedure for standardization of

      Convocation

 

     *          Member

      Students Welfare Committee

      University of Madras
 

    *          Member

     Vice-Chancellor’s Nominee

     Recruitment of Principal

     Valliammal College for Women


*  Member 

Vice-Chancellor’s Nominee

Selection Committee for

Recruitment of Lecturer’s

Valliammal College for Women

 

7.         Seminars / Conferences

                   Attended                          : *        Participant – National Seminar

On ‘Indian Urban Governance:

Emerging and trends’

Department of Public affairs

University of  Madras

 

*          Participant _ National

Seminar on ‘Marginalization’

Nirmala College

Coimbatore

 

*          Participant – National Seminar

On ‘Translation – a

Transcreation’

PSGR Krishnammal College

For Women, Coimbatore

 

 

 

*

Participant – National

Seminar on ‘A Spectrum of

Feministric dialogues,

GVG Visalakshi College,

Udamelpet

 

 

*

Participant – International

Paper n ‘Pudukkavithai –

Oru Parvai’ at Singapore

(23rd May 2007)

 

 

*

Participant – National Seminar

Conducted by State Council

for Higher Education, Vellore

 

*

Participant – National Seminar

On ‘Multi-dimensional Study

Of Tribal Life as reflected in

Literature’

PSGR Krishnammal collage

For Women, Coimbatore 

 

*

Participant – International

Seminar, Department of

Public Affairs, University of

Madras, 2008

 

*

Participant – National Seminar

Karunya University

Coimbatore

8.        Papers presented in

National and International

Seminars

  

*

Distortion to discovery : A

Study of Gloria

Naylor’s Linden Hills

Nirmala College

Coimbatore (Feb 2007)

 

 

 

Indian Urban Governance

Emerging trends,

Urban Poverty and ItsSolutions

Department of Public affairs

University of Madras 

 

*

A Paradigm of Translation – A

Translation of George Hebert’s

Love Bade Me Welcome

PSGR Krishnammal College

for Women

Peelamedu (Feb 2007) 

 

*

Despair to Destiny : A

Feministic point of view of

Ellen Glasgow’s barren Ground

G.V.G. Visalakshi College

Udumalpet (March 2007)

 

 

Pudukkavithai – Oru Parvai

Singapore (May 2007)

 

 

 

Empowerment of Women as

delineated in select American

Fiction, Vellore (2007)

 

 

The Governance of the

Marginalized in Vijay

Tendulkar’s Silence! The

Court is in Session

Department of Public Affairs

University of Madras (2008)

 

 

 

Use of Songs as Pattern of

Tribal Life in Wole Soyinka’s

select plays

P.S.G.R. Krishnammal College

for Women, 2008

 

 

 

Select situations of Diaspora

Featured in the Bible

Karunya University Coimbatore, 2008.

9.     Other Activities

 

 

*

Guest lecture

 

Institutional Audit a Student participation

In quality enhancement P.S.G.R. Krishnammal College for Women,

Peelamedu, Coimbatore Feb 2007

 

*

Question Paper Setting

 

*       Presidency College, Chennai

 

*       Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai

 

*

Resource Person in Seminars / Workshops

 

*      International Students workshop on Soft

        Skills for a Strong Career – Stamford

        College, Malacca, Malaysia, May 2007 

 

 

*      Workshop on Modes & Methods of

         Teaching English – Stamford College,

         Malacca, Malaysia, May 2007

 

 

*      National Seminar on ‘Changing Power

         Equations:  A gender perspective’

        Department of Christian Studies

        University of Madras

 

*

Service Activities

 

*      Camps for free eye treatment

 

*      Camps for free medical treatment

 

*      Blood donation Campaigns

 

*      Adult Literacy Programmes

 

*      Tree Planting Programmes

 

*    Aids Awareness Programmes on a largescale

 

*   Blessed with histrionic talents, good at Tamil

     Classical Music

 

*    Very good at Table Tennis and shuttle

      Badminton

 

10.   Articles Published in

        Journals

*

Three

11.   Countries Visited

*

Singapore, Malaysia, Jordon, Israel and Egypt

  

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  BOOKS PUBLISHED

 

1.            Interface I – English for B.Com., B.B.A., B.C.A. 

Prescribed for study at Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore

Semester I

 

2.            Interface II – English for B.Com., B.B.A., B.C.A. 

Prescribed for study at Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore

Semester II

 

3.            English for Life – II for B.A. / B.Sc. 

Prescribed for study at Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore

Semester III

 

4.          English for Life – III for B.A. / B.Sc. 

Prescribed for study at Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore

Semester III 

 

5.          English for Life – IV for B.A. / B.Sc. 

Prescribed for study at Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore

Semester IV

 

6.            English for Life – IV for B.A. / B.Sc. – Teacher’s Book

 

7.       A Socio-Psychic Perspective of Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

 

8.        Empowerment of Women as delineated in select American Fiction.

 

9.       Technique as Revelation of Mysciticism in the poems of George

     Herbert and GM Hopkins.
 

10.         Gail Godwin’s The Southern Family as a Verbal Diagram.

 

11.      The Journey Metaphor in Joseph Condrad’s Heart of Darkness and

            Willa Cather’s death of the Arch Bishop (On Print)