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Research and Teaching experience 37 years

Research/Teaching Place/Institution Period
Tutor in Tamil Dept. of Tamil, Govt. Arts College, Krishnagiri 06.12.1974 – 30.06.1975
Ph.D. Scholar (Full Time) International Institute of Tamil Studies, Chennai (University of Madras) Feb. 1976 – Feb. 1980
Post – Doctoral Fellow Tamil Language Departments, University of Madras (Fellowships given by Pondicherry Govt. in the name of poet Bharathiar 01.09.1980 – 31.08.1982
Post Doctoral Fellow Tamil University, Thanjavur. 20.10.1982 – 04.07.1983
Post Doctoral Fellow Dept. of Sociology, Tamil University, Thanjavur 05.07.1983 – 26.12.1984

Research and Teaching experience 37 years

Research/Teaching Place/Institution Period
D. Lit. Fellow Dept. of Sociology, Tamil University, Thanjavur 27.12.1984 – 02.08.1987
Lecturer Dept. of Folklore, Tamil University, Thanjavur 03.08.1987 – 30.09.1996
Reader Dept. of Folklore, Tamil University, Thanjavur 10.10.1996 – 26.07.2008
Professor Dept. of Folklore, Tamil University, Thanjavur 27.07.2008 – 30.06.2011
Emeritus Fellow Subramania Bharathiar School of Tamil, Pondicherry University, Puducherry. 01.08.2013 – 31.07.2015
Emeritus Fellow Department of Literature, Tamil University, Thanjavur. 15.04.2016 – 14.04.2018

Administrative experience 15 years

Period Posting
01.07.1999 – 30.06.2002 Head of the Dept. of Folklore, Tamil University
01.07.2005 – 30.06.2008 Head of the Dept. of Folklore, Tamil University
04.11.2009 – 11.12.2010 Head i/c. Dept of Philosophy, Tamil University
12.12.2007 – 11.12.2010 Dean, Language Faculty, Tamil University
12.08.2003 – 31.08.2008 Director i/c. Dept. of Publication, Tamil University
02.09.2008 – 01.08.2010 Director i/c. Directorate of Distance Education, Tamil University
15.09.1992 – 25.01.1995 Organising Secretary, Cultural Research Forum, Tamil University Teachers Association, Tamil University.
10.12.1995 – March 2012 Secretary (Tamilnadu), Folklore Society of South Indian Languages, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
09.06.2001 – 08.06.2003 Thanjavur District Vice President, Tamilnadu Science Forum.
Member of Syndicate, Senate, Finance Committee, Research Committee, Publication Committee, etc., in Tamil University.

Completed research projects

Topic Financial Assistance Period of completion
Prose works of Poet Bharathiar (in Tamil) Fellowship given by Govt. of Pondicherry, Dept. of Tamil Language, University of Madras 1982
Nittoori Katha – Historical Geographical Research (in Tamil) Tamil University 1983
Historical – Geographical Research – An Introduction and Researches (in Tamil) Tamil University 1986
Folklore Survey of Old Ramnad District. (in Tamil) Tamil University 1989
Folklore – An Introduction (in Tamil) (with Dr. S. Sakthivel and Dr. G. Shanthi) Tamil University 1992
Folk Performing Arts of Tamilnadu (in Tamil) Tamil University 1999
Dictionary of Folklore Technical Terms (with Dr. G. Shanthi and Dr. A. Shanmugam) Tamil University 2000
Folk tales of South India – Tamilnadu (in English) Ford Foundation through Folklore Society of South Indian Languages 2003
Tamil Classical Literature and Folklore – Continuation of Tradition (in Tamil) Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai. 2010
Pongal Festival (in Tamil) Tamil University (UCG) 2011
A critical study on Ballads of Desingu Raja S.B. School of Tamil studies, Pondicherry University Puducherry. (UGC Emeritus Fellow) 2015
A critical study of the influence of Folklore on Tamil Literature Department of Literature, Tamil University, Thanjavur. (UGC Emeritus Fellow) 2018