Nirmal Selvamony (born 29 April 1953) is an Indian academician and scholar with specialization in the field of ecocriticism.

When he retired from Central University of Tamil Nadu in April 2018, he was Professor and Head of the Department of English Studies and Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

In the same year, he joined Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society (CISRS), Bangalore as a research fellow and submitted an essay titled Personhood in Art in 1982.

On 21 April 2010, he voluntarily retired from his regular position at Madras Christian College,[3] in order to develop the department at CUTN.

Selvamony has introduced the course, Ecocriticism for the first time in the Indian university system and founded a forum now known as tiNai (formerly, OSLE-India).

He introduced tiNai (ecoregional) musicology that studies the music of the primordial biomic world regions (see: essays published in the reports of Tamil Isaic Cankam, Chennai, 1991, 1995, 1996).

Supplementing his doctoral research in dramatic theory, he has scripted, and directed plays and composed music for them.

He was also part of the panels constituted by the Government of Tamil Nadu for establishing tinai-based genetic parks.

In 2002, he was the secretary of Tamizicaiyiyal Uyarnilai Aayvu Manram (Forum for Advanced Research in Tamil Musicology), Madurai.