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Prof T Marx

Professor T. Marx is a bilingual writer and translator. He currently serves as a professor in the Department of English at Pondicherry University in Puducherry, India. Prof. Marx obtained his Master's degree and Ph.D. from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University in Tirunelveli. His areas of specialization encompass drama, comparative literature, subaltern studies, and translation. His research interests lie in the domains of drama, cultural studies, and subaltern historiography. Under his esteemed guidance, 11 scholars have been awarded the prestigious degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Prof. Marx has presented papers at numerous international and national seminars and conferences, showcasing his scholarly contributions. With an illustrious career spanning 25 years in teaching and 15 years in research supervision, he has made significant contributions to his field of expertise.

He has served on the panel for Confidential Work at the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) in New Delhi, as well as the Preliminary Panels for the Award of Bal Sahitya Puraskar in 2012, Yuva Puraskar in 2011, and the Sahitya Akademi Award in English in 2009. Additionally, he is a member of various Selection Committees for Arts and Science Colleges and Universities across India.

He holds membership in the Board of Studies at prestigious institutions, including Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (Tirunelveli), EGS Pillai Engineering College (Nagapattinam), Nehru College (Coimbatore), and Bharathiar University (Coimbatore). He has served as a referee, adjudicating research papers on Disability Studies, and is a Subject Expert for Curriculum Development at the Tamilnadu State Council of Educational Research and Training. Furthermore, he has served as a Subject Expert on Interview Panels for the Selection of English Faculty at many leading educational institutions.

He is part of the Panel of Adjudicators for Ph.D. programs at numerous universities, including the University of Hyderabad, The English and Foreign Languages University, Calicut University, University of Kerala, B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Goa University, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Shivaji University, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Dravidian University, Anna University, Manonamaniam Sundaranar University, Madurai Kamaraj University, Bharathidasan University, Bharathiar University, Alagappa University, Noorul Islam University, Periyar University, Thiruvalluvar University, Mahatma Gandhi University, Gandhigram Rural Institute, Mother Teresa Women's University, Periyar Maniammai University, Central University of Karnataka, Central University of Tamilnadu, Christ University, SRM University, VELS University, Karpagam University, The University of Madras, University of Calcutta, and North Eastern Hill University.

He has also served as an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of English at Midnapore College, West Bengal, from September 6 to September 9, 2019, where he delivered a series of lectures on Literary Theory and Criticism. He has been invited to deliver over 150 lectures and presentations at numerous esteemed universities and institutions of higher education throughout India.

He is a recipient of the Award of Excellence in 2021 from the Bodhi International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science. He has served as an Editorial Assistant for the International Journal of South Asian Studies, an Editorial Board member of Literary Innovations (an international literary journal), and an Associate Editor for Manas – A Literary Journal. He was awarded his Ph.D. from the Department of English at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, in 2005. He completed his M.A. from the Department of English at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University in 1999, securing the second rank in the university.

He served as a Lecturer (under the Faculty Improvement Program) at Sadakathullah Appa College from 2000 to 2002 and as a Lecturer at National Engineering College from 2002 to 2004. He was an Assistant Professor at Avvaiyar Government College from 2004 to 2008 and at Pondicherry University from 2008 to 2010. He served as an Associate Professor at Pondicherry University from 2013 to 2016. Since 2016, he has been working as a Professor at Pondicherry University to the present day.

He has organized several seminars and conferences in the Department of English, Pondicherry University, including:

1. A One-Day Seminar on "Theorizing Poststructuralism" on February 17, 2011.

2. A Two-Day National Seminar on "Production and Reception of Dalit Literature" on March 30-31, 2011.

3. A Two-Day National Conference on "Literature and Human Rights" on August 7-8, 2013.

4. A Two-Day International Conference on "Multicultural India: Inclusiveness & New Humanities" on February 22-23, 2016.

5. A Two-Day International Conference on "New Feminist Writings: Emancipation to Representation" on March 16-17, 2017.

6. A Two-Day National Seminar on "Towards the Subaltern in Knowledge: Literature, Nature, Culture, Society, & Media" on October 4-5, 2018.

7. An International Seminar on "Popular Culture and Contemporary Literature" on November 10-11, 2022.

8. An International Seminar on "Literature as Discourse" on October 5-6, 2023.

Additionally, he organized a remarkable event celebrating the 30th anniversary of Bama's "Karukku," in which the writer Bama and other eminent scholars participated and delivered talks.

A prolific contributor to The Hindu's Letters to the Editor column, he has had over a hundred of his epistolary musings anthologized and published in book form under the title 'Discursive Thoughts'.

Books (English)

1. Brechtian Impact on GirishKarnad.( ISBN 81-7966-205-5 )

Chennai: Emerald publishers, 2007.

2. Anger is Divine-Poems. ( ISBN 81-7966-208-X )

Chennai: Emerald publishers, 2007.

3. Dispelling Quotaphobia. Tirunelveli: Tamizhan Press, 2007

4. On Caste and ReligionThanthaiPeriyar ( ISBN 978-93-80812-00-7 ) Trans. T.Marx Chennai: Sri Maruthi Publishers, 2010.

5. Ezham and the TamilsArul Selvanayagam ( ISBN 978-93-80812-01-4 ) Trans. T.Marx Chennai: Sri Maruthi Publishers, 2010.

6. Discursive Responses( ISBN 978-93-80812-02-1 )

Chennai: Sri Maruthi Publishers, 2010.

7. Writing as Resistance: Discourses on Dalit Literature Ed. T.Marx&SundaraBabu.N    Mumbai:Vikas Adhyayan Kendra, 2012.

8.Writings on Rights: Critical Essays on Literature and Human Rights ( ISBN 978-93-83581-19-1 )Ed. T.Marx &  Muruganandan K. Chennai: Harrows Publications, 2015

9. Critical Essays on Multicultural India Ed. T.Marx & ShreyaBera. Chennai: Harrows Publications, 2016

10. Student’s Companion to World Drama ( ISBN 978-93-83581-28-3 ) Ed. T.Marx, S.Thirunavukarasu & D.Aswathi Krishna Chennai: Harrows Publications, 2016

11. William Shakespeare: A Student’s Companion ( ISBN 978-93-8597-714-5 ) T.Marx Madurai: Shanlax Publications, 2016.

12. Reading Saul Bellow: The Rational Anxiety ( ISBN 978-81-907880-2-1 ) T.Marx Chennai: Pulam Publishers, 2016

13.Tamil Theatre: A Concise History(ISBN-10    93-82241-76-0

ISBN-13     978-93-82241-76-8) S.Ravindranathan, T.Marx, & S.Pandimadevi

Madurai: Manimekala Publishing House, 2016

14. Critical Essays on New Feminist Writings ( ISBN 978-93-86655-89-9 ) Ed. T.Marx & K.Reshmi New Delhi: Pacific Books International, 2018

15. And then Poomani Trans. T.Marx ( ISBN 9789389080445 ) Chennai: Emerald Publishers, 2019

16. Dalit Writings: Resistance, Identity and Equity Eds. Arvind Nawale, T. Marx, N.D.R. Chandra. ( ISBN 978-93-5529-239-1 ) New Delhi: Authorspress, 2022.

Books (Tamil)

1. Thanimaiyin Nizhalil (In the Shadow of Solitude)-A collection of Tamil poems. Tirunelveli: TamizhanPathippagam, 2006.

2. Nazim Hikmet Ran Selected poems Trans.T.Marx ( ISBN 978-93-80812-03-8 )

Chennai: Sri Maruthi Publishers, 2010.

1.     ‘And Then’: True to the land and its tongue B. Kolappan The Hindu December 05, 2019

https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/and-then-true-to-the-land-and-its-tongue/article30185616.ece

2.     T. Marx’s vibrant translation from the Tamil of Poomani’s outstanding novel, Piraku (And Then) captures with fine nuance the bittersweet way of life among the rural Chakkiliyar community. The ancient oral traditions of storytelling that convey the regional flavours of Poomani’s tale of class/ caste oppression, social stratification, and women’s double colonisation in the Karisal boomi (black soil region), show new resistant energy in the idiomatic, colloquial prose of Marx’s translation. https://www.amazon.in/Then-Poomani-ebook/dp/B0876XHB75

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3.     Cremation Poomani, Trans. T. Marx Indian Literature, Vol. 54, No. 1 (255) (January/February 2010), pp. 143-151 (9 pages)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23344198