Double Timing and the Second Coming of the Trauma: A Study of Performative Agency of Trauma from Sadomasochism to Empathy

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsRemya V. R.Remya VR is a writer and a doctoral candidate in English literature at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. She is exceedingly interested in creating writing and excelled in working with words. She has published an anthology of poems, NEELAJARMBUKAL, BLUE VEINS and short stories in Malayalam and English and She was a former article writer at Way2News and currently focuses on her research on War Trauma. She aspires to coin a new theory on Trauma Studies to capsule the parasite of trauma creating emotionally handicapped society.Rukmini S.Dr. Rukmini. S is a Senior academic in the Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Languages, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu. She has more than two-decade experience in Teaching and Research. She has been teaching in the areas of English Language and Literature, Indian Writing in English, ELT, Soft skills to undergraduates and Postgraduates of all streams of Arts, Science, Technology and Management Studies and Ph.Ds. in English Language and Literature. She has taught in Indian institutions and Abroad. She has taught English Language and Literature to Undergraduates of all streams in Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University (NPRU), Nakhon Pathom, Thailand and as a visiting faculty delivered lectures in Postcolonial Literature in the International University of Sarajevo (IUS), and National University of Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Europe. Her areas of Research include Indian Writing in English, Postcolonial Literature, Scientific and Technical Writing, Spiritual Ecology, etc. She has reviewed books, presented papers more than 50 research papers in National and International Conferences and Seminars and published more than 40 research papers which includes Springer, inderscience, Apple American press, a Taylor and Francis group and also indexed in Scopus, Web of Science. Presently, She is working on Indic Knowledge Tradition and its application in the present curriculum of various school taught courses at the Higher Education level. She puts on a humble effort to indigenize ELT Methods, Techniques and Approaches for imparting Language Skills and Communication Skills in Arts, Technology and Management Studies. Under her guidance one Scholar got awarded with Ph.D. on Internet Linguistics and Ancient knowledge tradition. She is presently guiding six Ph.D. scholars in the areas of Digital Humanities focusing on Digitizing IKT (Indian Knowledge Tradition), Travel Writing, Australian Literature and Indian Knowledge Tradition, AI and Humanities, AI and Environment, and Spiritual Ecology. She has been conducting Training for Teachers and Management Professionals in Academic Research Writing, Scientific and Technical writing, and Applications of indigenizing novel Teaching Methods, Techniques and Approaches in Technology and Management Studies. Her passions are Reading, Writing and contemplating the exploration of Self and journeying from Self transformation to Unity Consciousness. Her interests include designing and developing novel curriculums for courses in higher education that emphasize the need for a holistic approach to education and learning new languages. She is a versatile in more than 5 languages and received a certificate in Basic Thai Language from Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.