Admissions 2026 ICSWHMH conference '27

Department of Languages

Alex.K.O

Designation : Assistant Professor

Qualification : M.A

Email-ID : alex@rajagiri.edu

Alex.K.O is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Languages at Rajagiri College of Social Sciences. He completed both his B.A. (Hons) in English and M.A. in English Literature from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Before joining Rajagiri, he worked in the Postgraduate Department of English at Naipunnya School of Management, Cherthala. Apart from being an academician, he has volunteered with the United Nations Development Programme on a project related to SDG14 (Life Below Water). His creative and academic works have been published in journals like the Journal of Poetry Therapy, English in Education, Trouvaille Review, Literary Voice, Contemporary Literary Review India, Sage Magazine and Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

  • Master of Arts in English Literature, The English and Foreign Languages University, 2013.
  • Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 2011.
  • Worked as a Guest Faculty in the Department of English at St. Michael’s College, Cherthala, from 17 June 2013 to 28 February 2014.
  • Worked as a Lecturer in the Postgraduate Department of English at Naipunnya School of Management, Cherthala, from 14/09/2015 to 31/01/2017.
  • Rejoined as a lecturer in the Postgraduate Department of English at Naipunnya School of Management on 3rd January 2018.
  • Comparative Literature
  • Cultural Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Literary Theory
  • South Asian Studies
  • K O Alex. The Empire of Letters. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, March 2026.
  • K O Alex. (In)difference of Victims and Impact of Images on Endosulfan Tragedy in Kerala. Sage Magazine. February 2026.
  • K O Alex. From The King’s Table to Street Food: A Food History of Delhi by Pushpesh Pant. Food and Foodways, 33(4), 378-379.
  • K O Alex. When I Read. English in Education, 59(3), 205.
  • K O Alex. Third-World Ties. Journal of Poetry Therapy, April 2025.
  • K O Alex. Ahimsa: 100 reflections on the Harappan civilization by Devdutt Pattanaik. Asian Ethnicity Journal, 27(2), 507-508.
  • K O Alex. Re-conceptualizing Humanism from the Eastern Philosophical Traditions. Journal of Kolkata Society for Asian Studies, 1(10), June 2024.
  • K O Alex. The War of Attrition and Fighting God: An Analysis of the Survival Strategy in Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Literary Voice,1 (22), March 2024.
  • K O Alex. Third-World Ties. Friday Flash Fiction, October 2023.
  • K O Alex. RaagDarbari: An Analysis of the Post-Colonial Political Scenario in India. International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies, 4 (2), April 2023.
  • K O Alex. 'Oracle Sea'; The Art of Minimizing the Other by Assimilating the Empirical Philosophy of the Shore . International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies, 3 (5), November 2022.
  • K O Alex. The Scholar and Wound. Contemporary Literary Review of India, 10 (2), 229-231.
  • K O Alex. Station Thoughts. Trouvaille Review (USA).
  • KO Alex. Beginning and End. The Trouvaille Review (USA).
  • K O Alex. Feeding Fate. Delhi Poetry Slam, March 2018.

Books/Book Chapter

  • K O Alex. Dakhma.  Book Leaf Publishing. ISBN 9789395314039
  • K O Alex. The Himalayan Mountain Ranges as Monuments of Philosophical Wisdom. The Himalayan Saga- Nature, Culture and Literature’ Indu Book Service. ISBN 97881199077779
  • Presented a paper, “Fort Kochi: Tracing the Transition from Mud Bank to Mecca of Memories”, in an international conference organized by the Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras, 27-29 October 2025. 
  • Presented a paper, “The Triumph of Emancipatory Philosophies and Thriving Justice in the Film Jai Bhim”, in an international conference organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, 21-22 June 2025.
  • Presented a paper, “The Plight of the People and Plead of Photos: An Analysis of an Endosulfan Tragedy in Kerala”, in an international conference organized by the Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras, 16-18 September 2024.
  • Presented a paper, “The War of Attrition: An Art of Taming God in The Face of    Death”, in an international conference organized by South Asian University, Delhi, 14 and 15 December 2023.
  • Presented a paper, “The Birth of Rebels in the Autobiographies of the East”, in an international conference organized by the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, 21and 22 September 2023.
  • Presented a paper, “Losing Letters and Landing Digits”, in an international conference organized by the Indian Memory Studies Network at IIT Madras on 24 August 2022.
  • Presented a paper, “Nangeli: Framing the Image of a Fading Rebel”, in an international online conference organized in collaboration with the Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy & Department of English, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India on 24 October 2021.
  • Participated in a research workshop on ‘Essentials of Research Writing & Using Mendeley Reference Manager’ conducted by Elsevier in collaboration with Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on 20 November 2020.
  • Participated in a three-month online course on ‘Exploring Sustainability in the Indian Context’ offered by Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, from March 08-May05, 2019.
  • Chaired two sessions in a national conference, “Mélange: Symbiosis of Literature and Film”, held at KMM College, Kochi, 17- 18 December 2019.
  • Presented a paper, “The Paradox of Modern Refugees and Matured Minds in No Friends But The Mountains”, in an International Conference held at Maharajas College, Ernakulam, 17-18 September 2019.
  • Presented a paper, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist: The Triumph of the Third World Sensibility in the West”, in an International Conference, held at St. Xavier’s College for Women, Aluva, Ernakulam, 12-13 March 2019.
  • Presented a paper, “Oracle Sea: The Art of Minimizing the Other by Assimilating the Empirical Philosophy of the Shore”, in an International Conference, held at St. Aloysius College, Elthuruthu, Thrissur, 12-13 January 2018.
  • Presented a paper, “Humanism: Benefit of the West and Loss of the East”, in a National Conference held at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 05-07 April 2017
  • Participated in a three-month online course on ‘Exploring Sustainability in the Indian Context’ offered by Azim Premji University, Bengaluru from March 08-May05, 2019
  • Participated in One Week Faculty Development Programme on “Moodle Online Courses”, organized by the Department of Management, SBJITMR in association with Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT, Bombay in May 2020
  • Participated in a research workshop on ‘Essentials of Research Writing & Using Mendeley Reference Manager conducted by Elsevier in collaboration with Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on 20 November 2020.
  • Participated in a Three-Days National Workshop (26,27 August and 17 September 2023) on Qualitative Research Methods organized by the Department of Languages, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous), Kalamassery.