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Explore advaya's faculty of teachers, scientists, practitioners, philosophers and storytellers, who share multidimensional, local and diverse narratives from across the world.
Bayo Akomolafe
Sophie Strand
Satish Kumar
Vandana Shiva
Veronica Strang
Manda Scott
Beloved Sara Zaltash
David Abram
Dr Andreas Weber
David Whyte
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic
Charles Eisenstein
Aisha Paris Smith
Brontë Velez
P. Mary Vidya Porselvi
P. Mary Vidya Porselvi is Assistant Professor of English, Loyola College, Chennai, India.
P. Mary Vidya Porselvi is Assistant Professor of English, Loyola College, Chennai, India. She obtained her BA, MA, and PhD degrees from Stella Maris College. Her primary research was on the topic “Mother Earth Discourse as Conscientizacao: An Ecofeminist Approach to Folktales from India”, and she has identified an innovative folktale typology which connects women with the environment. She has been a recipient of the Fulbright (FNAPE) Award for the year 2019–2020, and she worked on the topic “Indian Classical Ecocriticism: An Ecofeminist-Semiotic Study”.
She has authored books titled Bhoomi Tales (2015), Nature’s Voices Women’s Voices (2015), Nature, Culture and Gender: Rereading the Folktale with Routledge and Taylor and Francis (2016), Sylvan Tones: English through Folklore’ (2017) and Environmental Humanities in Folktales (2023) with Routledge and Taylor and Francis.
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Storytelling our way home: weaving threads & illuminating patterns
How can storytelling help us find our way home and ground ourselves in the present of these times? In this webinar, co-curators of advaya’s upcoming course, Re/membering our Rooted Selves, Maria Clara Parente and Naida Culshaw, dialogue with some of our course teachers: Anna Denardin, Aza Njeri, Lana Jelenjev, P. Mary Vidya Porselvi and Andreza Jorge.
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Heart, Hearth and Earth: on Ecofeminism with P. Mary Viya Porselvi
Wangari Maathai says that “trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil, yet it reaches to the sky, it tells us, in order to aspire, we need to be grounded.” In Week 3 of Re/membering our Rooted Selves, professor, researcher and author P. Mary Vidya Porselvi shares with us a key framework: Heart, Hearth, and the Earth, based on the Tamil word, ‘agam’. Expanding upon this framework, she expresses the interconnection between storytelling, ecology and women, in her culture.