Dr.Jancy James

Dr. Jancy James is the first Vice Chancellor of Central University, Kasaragod.

She was professor in the Institute of English, University of Kerala when she was appointed VC of MG University, Kerala, to become the first woman to become the Vice-Chancellor of a university in Kerala.

Dr. James started her teaching career at the BCM College, Kottayam, in 1976, and joined the Institute of English, University of Kerala, in 1981. Since 1992, she has been the director of the Centre of Comparative Literature at the Institute.

A former member of the Kendra Sahitya Akademi and the serving vice-president of the Comparative Literature Association of India, Dr. Jancy has also been a post-doctoral Commonwealth fellow at the University of Warwick and a Faculty Research Fellow of the Canadian Government at the University of Toronto.

She has five books to her credit in both English and Malayalam. She was also the Malayalam editor of Women Writing in India- 600 BC to the Present published by the New York State University in 1992-93.

She has worked as the VC of Mahatma Gandhi University also.