Dr. Barath N

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Journalism and Mass Communication

Joined NEHU on

04-07-2012

Qualifications:

  • B.Sc. (Bio-Chemistry), PSG College of Arts & Science. Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore (2004-2007)
  • Diploma in Clinical and Medical Laboratory Management from PSG College of Arts & Science. Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore (2004-2006)
  • BA English Literature from University of Madras (2005-2008) through Distance Education
  • MA in Communication (2007-09) University of Hyderabad, UGC-NET/JRF.
  • Qualified NET-JRF (0901595) in UGC-NET held on June 2009
  • M Phil Comparative literature - “Looking through Literatures: A study of Dravidian movement and politics.” A dissertation that attempts to understand the subtle connections between the Dravidian politics and the art forms like cinema and Literature and thereby looks at literary responses from Tamil literature as a critique of Dravidian movement. Completed in October 2010.
  • PhD Comparative Literature – “Making of Tamizhan-Print World and The Emergence of Parayar Consciousness- A Study of Iyothee Thass Writings.” A thesis that looks at partly a history of a print magazine published in the beginning of early twentieth century in Colonial south India and about the political engagement of a particular community with print modernity.

Area of Interest

History of Media, Media and Culture Studies, Media and Minority Discourse, Development Studies.

Publications

Paper in Journals:

  1. “Where do middle-class, Tamil Brahmin girls go when they turn eighteen” in Man and Society: A Journal of North-East Studies, Volume X, Winter 2013 2012, pp. 160-163. ISSN: 2229-4958.
  2. “Visual Turn of North-East as an Argumentative Necessity for the Need of New Disciplinary Trajectories. Remarking An Analisation, Volume-4, Issue-9 December 2019, pp. E6-E10. E: ISSN: 2455-0817

Seminar/Conference/Symposium etc.

  • Attended
  1. Presented paper titled “Writing Off English as a language of Caste” at the Comparative Literature: The Question of Language and the Minority, An International Conference Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad, Dates: 14th to 16th October, 2015
  2. Chaired a Session “Space and Performance” at the RAW.Con 2014 (Researchers at Work Conference), Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad, Dates: 10th-12th September 2014.
  3. Attended a colloquium on the Syllabus for Social Media Journalism, an initiative by CHIME- EFLU Shillong on 12th June 2014.
  4. Presented a paper titled, “Visual turn of North-East as an argumentative necessity for the need of new disciplinary trajectories” in the National Seminar “Contesting the Site of Sights: The Discourse of Visual Media Cultures with reference to Northeast India” conducted by EFL University, Shillong Campus 10-11th June, 2019.
  5. Dr. Barath N chaired a session on “OTT’s and Cinema’s Future” at the National Seminar on “Cinema in the Digital Age: A Medium in Crisis/Transformation” on 5th February 2022
  6. Dr. Barath N chaired a session titled – ‘A room of One’s own : Filming Food, Disability and Technology at National Student’s Seminar (online) on Gender and Visual Culture, conducted by Department of English, Vivekananda College. University of Delhi on 3rd March 2022
  7.  Dr. Barath N chaired a Technical Session titled pre Seminar Colloquium Session for PG Students in the Two Days Virtual National Seminar on “Realities of Marginalisation and Marginality in Media” organized by Department of Mass Communication, Mizoram University held on 21st and 22nd April 2022
  8. Dr. Barath N chaired a session titled Sustainable Communication in the two day International Conference on “Borderless Communication: Reimagining Global Mediascape” organized by Department of Mass Communication, Mizoram University held on 17th and 18th November 2022.

Any other information

  1. Delivered a series of lectures at EFLU, Shillong campus on Print History and Development, September 2nd to 22nd 2013.
  2. Delivered two lectures on Ratan Thiyam’s  Chakravyuha at the Department of English, NEHU on September 8th and 9th 2014.
  3. Invited as a resource person for a two day national workshop on Subaltern Cinema conducted by Department of Communication, Mizoram University 19th -20th March2019.
  4.  Invited as a Speaker for a book release event (Modern Mizoram History, Culture, Poetics) conducted by Department of Communication, Mizoram University on 18th March 2019.
  5. Dr. Barath N delivered as lecture titled, “Language as History” in the Lecture Series- Alumni Panel conducted by Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad on 28th January 2022 
  6. Dr. Barath N was invited to give a lecture, titled “Technology as the New Pedagogy – Features, Functions and Concerns” at One-Day workshop on The Relevance of Technology as a Tool in Classroom Teaching, organized by MCTA Unit of St. Anthony’s College, Shillong on 1st June 2022.
  7. Dr. Barath N participated as a resource person for Panel Discussion titled ‘The creation of autonomous film development societies of the state of Meghalaya.’ in “Summit on the Meghalaya State Film Policy” organized by Mass Media Department, St. Anthony’s College & Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, NEHU on 9th March 2023 sponsored by ICSSR (NERC).