M. Thirumalai, Professor and Head of the Department of Literary Criticism, School of Tamil Studies, Madurai Kamaraj University, has been appointed as Vice-Chancellor of Tamil University, Thanjavur. A release from Raj Bhavan said his term would be three years from the date of his assumption of office.
The Vice-Chancellor post has been remaining vacant since June 2011, after M. Rajendran, who was appointed during the DMK regime, retired.