EDUCATION

Ph. D. –The Corners of the Wind-A Study of A R Ammons’ Poetry, University of Calicut [2004]

M. Phil. –School of Letters,M G University,Kottayam [1993]

MA English: Sree Kerala Varma College, Trissur[1991]

EXPERIENCE

1993 to the present : Associate Professor, St. Joseph’s College Devagiri, Kozhikode

SEMINARS / ORIENTATION / WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

1. Orientation Course- Academic Staff College, University of Calicut [08-09-1998 to 05-10-1998]
2. Refresher Course- in English, Academic Staff College, University of Calicut [01-12-1999 to 21-12-1999]
3. Refresher Course- in English, Academic Staff College, University of Calicut[03/10/2001 to 23/10/2001]
4. Refresher Course- in English, Academic Staff College, University of Calicut[25/10/2002 to 14/11/2002]

PUBLICATIONS

1. Salil Varma R. (2005). This Flesh: Imaging the Human Body in A.K. Ramanujan’s Poetry. ASSONANCE, Journal of Russian and Comparative Literary Studies, 14: 28-34.
2. Salil Varma R. (2005). Bedding the Utterance in the locale: Language and Landscape in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry. Interventions, Journal of the Department of English, Calicut University, 2(1): 5-23.
3. Salil Varma R. (2006). The Last Translation: Death in the Poetry of A.R. Ammons. Rethinking Multi Culturalism- Critical Essays on American Literature Edited by M. Dasan, Emrald Publishers, 26-50. ISBN 81-7966-172-5.
4. Salil Varma R. (2008). A Long Ride: From the Oracle to the Pathologist: Afflictions, Cures, Faith and Medicine in O.V. Vijayan’s The Legends of Khasak. Calicut University Research Journal, 6 (2): 81-100. ISSN 0972-334-X.
5. Salil Varma R. (2011). Libidinous Constructs: Women in the short stories of O.V. Vijayan. ASSONANCE A Journal of Russian and Comparative Literary Studies, 14: 53-66.
6. Salil Varma R. Legends of Infidelity: Representation of women in The Legends of Khasak, 7-18.
7. Salil Varma R. (2018). The Miraculous Residence: The Human Body in the Early Poetry of A.R. Ammons. International Journal of English Language Literature, in Humanities, 122-134. ISSN/ISBN 2321-7065.
8. Salil Varma R. (2018). Feminist Concerns in Sarah Joseph’s “In Every Woman Writer”. New Academia: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory, 97-108. ISSN/ISBN 2347-2073.
9. Salil Varma R. (2021). A Faceless Shell: Representation of Women in Jayanta Mahapatra’s Temple. Vidyabharati International Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 3742-3749. ISSN/ISBN 2319-4979.
10. Salil Varma R. (2021). The Cricketer and the Watchman: Representation of Sexual Violence in Gracy’s “Baby Doll” and “Beware of Dogs”. Shodhsamhitha; Journal of Fundamental and Comparative Research: Journal of Kavikulaguru Kalidas Sanskrit University, 7(7): 76-81. ISSN/ISBN 2277-7067.
11. Salil Varma R. (2021).  A Shape for My Death: Debating Euthanasia in Cory Taylor’s “Dying: A Memoir”. Littcrit: An Indian Response to Literature, 197-208. ISSN/ISBN 0970-8049.
12. Salil Varma R. (2021). The Coolie and the Suitcase: Representing Surrogate Motherhood in Amulya Malladi’s “A House of Happy Mothers”. Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, 117-130. ISSN/ISBN 2278-523X.
13. Salil Varma R. (2021). “The Elephant and the Rock: Representations of Childlessness, Motherhood and Femininity in Gracy’s “Arundhathi’s Dreams” and “Petra”. Malayalam Literary Survey- A Quarterly Journal of Kerala Sahitya Academi, 76-95. ISSN/ISBN 2319-3271.
14. Salil Varma R. (2021). Nallamma, Dhanvantari and the Apothecary: Healing Practices in O.V. Vijayan’s “The End of a Battle and Wart”. Malayalam Research Journal, 14(1): 5216-5236. ISSN/ISBN 0974-1984.
15. Salil Varma R. (2021). The Haggling of the Priests over Karma’s Scars: Representation of Religion in Jayanta Mahapatra’s Early Poetry. Journal of Oriental Research (XCII)I: 175-182. ISSN/ISBN 0022-3301.
16. Salil Varma R. (2022). Not Simply Thin, but Valued. Desirable: The Body Image in Andie Mitchell’s “It was me all Along: A Memoir”. Assonance A Journal of Russian and Comparative Literary Studies, 381-391. ISSN/ISBN 2394-7893

BOOKS

1. Salil Varma R. (2021). The Portrait and the Self Portrait: Contesting Narratives of Femininity in Sarah Joseph’s “The Portrait” in Psychosocial Perspectives in Literature, Media and Culture Editors: Soumya Syamchand & Durga Lekshmi G.S. Authors Press, 17-40. ISSN/ISBN 978-93-90588-67-1.