1951 – 52 : Lecturer in English, C.M.S. College, Kottayam
1952 : Lecturer in English, Mahatma Gandhi College, Trivandrum
1952 – 65 : Lecturer in English, University College, Trivandrum
1971 : AM and PhD Degrees from Indiana University,USA (His Thesis on Robert   Lowell: The Development of His Poetry. His Doctoral Dissertation was   under the supervision of Prof. Robert.E.Gross).
1974 – 80 : Reader at Institute of English.
1980 : Prof and Head of the Dept of English - University of Kerala
1980 – 90 : Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Kerala
1981 : Post Doctoral Research in Yale University (Five months) and Harvard   University (Four months)
1984 – 85 : Selected as the National Lecturer by U.G.C
1984 – 85 : Gave Lectures at Gorakhpur, Kolhapur, Karnataka and Bangalore   Universities. Also served as Visiting Fellow at Universities like Kashmir
  and Jadavpur.
1990 Sept 30th : Retired as Professor and Head of the Dept of English - University
  of Kerala
1996 : President, All India English Teachers Conference.
   

Research Students of Ayyappa Paniker

  • Bhaskarapanikar- 'Individual Morality and Social Happiness in the plays of Arthur Miller'.
  • Sister Mary Alice- 'Newman and the Oxford movement: A study of the Development of John Henry Newman as a Religious Thinker and Writer'.
  • A. Jameela Begum- 'Environmental Determinism in Frank Norms, Stephen Crane and Jack London.
  • T.N.Sudha- 'The Comic Mode in Classical Indian and Western Dramatic Theory with Special Reference to the Plays of Bhasa and Shakespeare'.
  • B.Kumari Chandrika- 'The Family in Post-war British Drama'
  • Susan Oommen- 'Social Radicalism in Norman Mailer'.
  • N.Parvathi Devi- Love and sex in the Poetry of Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu and Kamala Das.
  • V.C.Harris- 'Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath: A Comparative Study in Poetic Sensibility'.
  • Valsala Kumari- 'The Indian Short Story in English: Themes and techniques'.
  • S.Murali- 'The Mantra of Vision: Sri Aurobindo's Concept of Overhead Poetry'
  • D.Radhakrishnan Nair- 'Narrative technique in Milton and Ezhuthachan: A special reference to Paradise Lost and Adhyatma Ramayana'.
  • P.K.Rajan- 'Humanistic Ambivalence in the Novels of Mulk raj Anand: A Dialectical Approach'
  • Maya Dutt- 'The Archetypal Women in D.H.Lawrence's Longer Fiction'.
  • Chitra Panikker- 'Joyce and Proust as Narrators in Ulysses and Remembrance of Things Past'.
  • V.T.Usha- 'Ted Hughes: A study of the Human and Non-human characters in his Poetry'.
  • Geetha Kumari- The influence of Gandhi and Gandhian thought on post Independence Indian English Fiction.
  • Govindan Nair- The influence of Maxim Gorky on the Malayalam novels between 1930 and 1980.
  • Dhanya Menon- Annkriti and Mimesis.
  • Jayasree Ramakrishnan Nair- 'Shakespeare in Malayalam'.
  • Nisha Venugopal- The historical consciousness of Robert Lowell.
  • Neeta Sharma- K. R. Sreenivasa Iyangar and the Making of Indian English Literature.
  • Krishna Kumar. S- Theoretical orientation in critical writings of Raymond William.
  • Sujatha.K.K- Urban and Non-urban elements of life in the novels of Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai & Nayantara Sahgal.

 

 

 

 
 
 
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