Dr. Nirmal Selvamony

Associate Professor & Head
English
Central University of Tamil Nadu
India

Biography

Dr. Nirmal Selvamony (B.1953-) is an Indian academician and scholar. Currently, he is the Head-in-charge of Department of English in Central University of Tamil Nadu. His major interests include Literary Theory, Eco Criticism, Eco Theory, music and drama. The current president of OSLE-India.[2] He obtained PhD. from University of Madras with dissertation Literary Personhood in tolkappiyam in 1988. He completed BA from Scott Christian College with First Rank in Madurai Kamaraj University. He published 14 books, 50 chapters in books more than 40 research papers in journal and more than 100 conference papers. He has worked in various universities and colleges across India and abroad. He got North East Ohio Tamil Sangam Life Time Achievement Award in 2011.

Research Intrest

MUSIC, ECOCRITICISM, ECOTHEORY DRAMATIC THEORY, THEORY

List of Publications
Selvamony N. introduction, Essays in Ecocriticism, ed. Nirmal Selvamony, Nirmaldasan, and Rayson K. Alex (Chennai: OSLE-India, 2007), xix. Hereafter cited as EE.
Selvamony N, Alex RK. Essays in Ecocriticism. Osle: Sarup & Sons; 2007.
Selvamony N. An alternative social order. Value Education Today: Explorations in Social Ethics. Ed. JTK Daniel and Nirmal Selvamony. Madras: Madras Christian College. 1990:215-36.