Good day, Dr. D. Sundar Singh. I'm Arjun. I've had a look through your background and your professional record. I'm interested in hearing more about your work and how you see yourself fitting in here with our faculty. Ready to start?

I'm ready to start.

Please start by introducing your professional journey in academia.

Well, I think, you know, uh, I'm very happy to introduce myself, in fact, to tell you more about my academic background and my journey. And I would say that, uh, I, my undergraduation was BSE visual communication. Uh, I finished my undergraduation in the year 2008. OK. And straight up to my undergraduation, I was working in a call center called the Sitel India Limited here in Chennai, which is a metropolitan city. And I was dealing with foreign customers. I was talking to, you know, foreign customers. My job was, I was.

Into a an inbound to call centre and I was a Technical Support executive and then out of passion for teaching English, I took up MA in English literature. And I studied that in at VHNS in College in Viridanagar, which is in down South part of this state, Tamil Nadu. And I also want to pursue M Phil. So I did M Phil also in the same institution. So that institution where I studied my PG and M Phil is affiliated to Madhuri Kamara University. So after my M Phil.

You know, I worked in the same college where I studied and then I moved to Chennai where I was teaching technical English to B.Tech students for one year. And then I was staying. Actually I was a bachelor at that time. So I was staying outside and then I thought, OK, just, you know, I was finding it very hard for food and accommodation. So I went back to my hometown and you know, I worked in an engineering college called Sreevidya College of Engineering and Technology, where I worked for five years. OK, I was part of placement cell.

Taking care of the training thing for the students and I was teaching technical English as well as I know communicative English to B&B tech students. And then I moved to another audiences college which is called V Hnsen College where I again worked for 10-5 years. OK, So what I was teaching literature was dealing with journalism and mass communication.

And I have, I was teaching, you know, not only March students but also science students. So I was there for five years and then I got the opportunity of coming to SRM University here in Katangurthu, which is part of Chennai. And I joined SRM in the 2004, 2024, July 5th that I totally, I have got 13 years of service, 13 years of service during which I have done multiple guest lectures. I have delivered multiple guest lectures. I have published more than.

15 UGC analyst papers and I have, so right now I've got 2, you know, Scopus index papers in both the papers and the first Tata. And I've written an, a book, an ISBN book which is about 4:50 to 400 to 450 pages. And you know, the title of the book is the Structures of English Language a Practical Application. It's a good book, which is a bilingual book which is exclusively meant for, you know, government school students. You know, I I also have one more paper.

In Above Science, which is going to be indexed very soon, right now one book chapter which is published by Taylor and Francis. I've got three other book charts which are waiting to be published. All are published by Taylor and Francis only so.

And then if I have to say about patents, I'm actually getting ready for patents and I've got some 5 to 6 working papers and three of my papers are under review right now. OK, so this is my academic journey. So I can teach up not only English, I can teach up soft skills. In fact, I'm writing a book on soft skills, acquisition of soft skills through literature. How soft skills you know, can be acquired from literary text. I'm doing it so very soon, that book.

Also be published. So this is my academic journey.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Professor, let's explore your qualifications and experiences to verify specific competencies relevant to the role. We'll evaluate one area at a time, beginning with your capability in teaching digital humanities. Can you detail your experience or approach to integrating digital tools or methodologies into humanities teaching or research?

OK, you know.

A new field, you know.

That that's a good deal. In fact, let's let's you know no one else. It is actually coming up really well. People are doing extensive research on it and I as a person, I'm actually in fact, I told you about a paper which is, you know.

Uh, which is, which has been accepted and, uh, which has been accepted now actually that paper, uh, is on digital feminism.

Digital feminism and digital humanities is also there. So what is digital humanity? First of all, you want all the archives to be visible or to be transparent to everybody. Whatever that was there in the ancient time, you want it to be available for people nowadays. That's digital humanities. You are doing a research on it. Whatever that has been hidden, whatever that has been historically in a documented in those days, OK, you want to bring it to, you know, alive so that.

People will be able to read it and get the benefit. That's digital humanities.

Thank you, Professor. That provides a foundational understanding of your insights into digital humanities. Given your expertise, how would you incorporate digital humanities into a typical classroom setting to engage students effectively?

Now, when it comes to digital humanities, OK, so you know, I think.

You know.

You know that is a wonderful, uh.

What to say in a wonderful field in the classroom, if you have to teach digital humanities? I think I would ask the students, OK, whatever they have read, whatever, whatever they have read in the classroom, I mean, in the in the ancient time, whatever they have heard, for example, if it is a tale or if it is a story that they have heard, we have somehow we want to somehow, you know, bring it.

You haven't saw a bring it to alive. OK, so I'm going to ask my students to throw themselves into more honestly what is actually happening now. OK, That's going to be kind of a research and students would be certainly interested in and they will be investing themselves into search for more literary text. OK, whatever people haven't haven't read so far. You know, if I have to do a research, I will do it on it and bring it to people. Inside the classroom, I would encourage my students.

You know to alive.

To explore the texts that people have not read it.

Understood, Professor. Encouraging students to delve into unexplored texts is a promising approach. Now, as you advocate for transparency and accessibility of historical archives in digital humanities, how do you address challenges such as limited digital resources or student unfamiliarity with advanced technologies in this domain?

Well, that's in fact a very, uh, you know what to say. A beautiful question.

Of course there are challenges. It is not that easy.

You know, for example, if in Tamil, if you take Tamil literature is the beauty.