Department
English Language & Literature
Designation
Professor & Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences, Languages & Literature
Qualifications
M.A., PGCTE, Ph.D.
Professional Pages
A Physics graduate from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Dr. Rani turned to Literature for a postgraduate degree, which she completed in 1995. In 1996, she joined the Dept. of English Language & Literature at SSSIHL as a faculty member. She passed the National Eligibility Test for Lectureship conducted by the Andhra Pradesh College Service Commission in 1996; completed the Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching of English (PGCTE) from the Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages (CIEFL) in 2002 with ‘A’ grade and received her doctoral degree in 2011 from Sri Krishna Devaraya University, Anantapur.
Currently, she is the Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences and Languages & Literature and the Director of Anantapur Campus, SSSIHL.
Areas of Teaching
Language courses for Undergraduate students, Early British Literature, Indian Writing in English, Linguistics & Phonetics, Modern English Grammar, English for the Media, Teaching of English as a Second Language (TESL)
Research Interests
Media Linguistics, Literature and Pop Culture, Post-colonial Studies, Ecocriticism, ELT
Current Ph.D. Supervision
Ms. Sai Archana Murthy (Applied Linguistics)
Ms. Megha Santosh (Indian Writing in English, New Historicism, Trauma Studies)
Ms. Aarthi R M (Cli-Fi Studies)
Ms. Lekshmi Chandra (Palestinian Literature)
Ms. Meghana Srinivas Mandalappu (Indian Sign Language)