Nirmal Selvamony

Nirmal Selvamony (born 29 April 1953) is an Indian academician and scholar with specialization in the field of ecocriticism.

When he retired from Central University of Tamil Nadu in April 2018, he was Professor and Head of the Department of English Studies and Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. His major interests include Literary Theory, Ecotheory, music and drama. He is the current president of ''tiNai'' (formerly, OSLE-India). He obtained in 1988, his Ph.D. from the University of Madras for his dissertation, "Literary Personhood in ''tolkappiyam''." He completed BA from Scott Christian College with First Rank in Madurai Kamaraj University. He published 14 books, 50 chapters in books, more than 75 research papers in journals and more than 100 conference papers. He has taught in universities in India and abroad. He got North East Ohio Tamil Sangam Life Time Achievement Award in 2011. Provided by Wikipedia