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The importance of literary studies is being increasingly recognized in today’s world. Literary studies help directly or indirectly in creating career choices; they certainly tap and harness the human potential.
The Department of English and Foreign Language endeavors to provide the students a firm grounding in English and literary studies in a very congenial atmosphere. English is one of the most popular subjects among undergraduate students who opt for it as their core or elective subject every year. Our students are introduced to all the important aspects of literatures written in English. We extend ourselves to other departments too, with the teaching of English and Communication skills to students of other departments. Teaching of English for Remedial English classes and for competitive examinations is also undertaken by the Department.
We have a team of dedicated and competent teachers who are quite accessible to students. We not only teach but mentor as well. This means that students can approach us regarding any issue, be it academic or personal. The academic excellence of the faculty members reflects in the continuous publications and participation in national and international conferences and workshops. Our students have also been presenting papers at seminars and conferences and have been appreciated. The number of our students clearing UGC NET and other competitive examinations has been increasing every year. Our achievements over the years include workshops on English and communication skills and two GIAN workshops, one on comics and graphic novels, and another on reading and appreciating literature. We have also organized workshops, seminars and conferences. At the same time, our teachers and Ph.D. scholars are doing research on the latest developments in literary studies like posthumanism, campus fiction, graphic novels, and cinema studies, to name a few. Our placement record is excellent, with most of our former students teaching in prestigious schools, colleges, and universities in India and abroad. In addition, many of our former students hold good positions in administration, media, and other fields. Students of the university can also join diploma courses in French and German languages. We also have a nice stack of useful books at our departmental library and up-to-date smart classrooms available for teaching, presentations, and academic functions.
While we try to make our students feel at home, we also nudge them to explore their talents with creative involvements and challenges. In addition to various competitions and events for the students, our wall magazine, ‘Zephyr’, ‘Bemused Bibliophiles’, a student venture to showcase creativity, ‘Abhinay’, a drama festival—all help students explore their creativity and branch out. So, our students can learn, communicate, mingle, and excel—all at this department.
The Department of English and Foreign Language endeavors to provide the students a firm grounding in English and literary studies in a very congenial atmosphere. English is one of the most popular subjects among undergraduate students who opt for it as their core or elective subject every year. Our students are introduced to all the important aspects of literatures written in English. We extend ourselves to other departments too, with the teaching of English and Communication skills to students of other departments. Teaching of English for Remedial English classes and for competitive examinations is also undertaken by the Department.
We have a team of dedicated and competent teachers who are quite accessible to students. We not only teach but mentor as well. This means that students can approach us regarding any issue, be it academic or personal. The academic excellence of the faculty members reflects in the continuous publications and participation in national and international conferences and workshops. Our students have also been presenting papers at seminars and conferences and have been appreciated. The number of our students clearing UGC NET and other competitive examinations has been increasing every year. Our achievements over the years include workshops on English and communication skills and two GIAN workshops, one on comics and graphic novels, and another on reading and appreciating literature. We have also organized workshops, seminars and conferences. At the same time, our teachers and Ph.D. scholars are doing research on the latest developments in literary studies like posthumanism, campus fiction, graphic novels, and cinema studies, to name a few. Our placement record is excellent, with most of our former students teaching in prestigious schools, colleges, and universities in India and abroad. In addition, many of our former students hold good positions in administration, media, and other fields. Students of the university can also join diploma courses in French and German languages. We also have a nice stack of useful books at our departmental library and up-to-date smart classrooms available for teaching, presentations, and academic functions.
While we try to make our students feel at home, we also nudge them to explore their talents with creative involvements and challenges. In addition to various competitions and events for the students, our wall magazine, ‘Zephyr’, ‘Bemused Bibliophiles’, a student venture to showcase creativity, ‘Abhinay’, a drama festival—all help students explore their creativity and branch out. So, our students can learn, communicate, mingle, and excel—all at this department.
Vision of the Department
To stimulate and develop the imagination and critical thinking of the students through teaching and research and to develop the department as a centre for academic excellence and high-quality research. We wish to sustain critical and creative thinking about literature and the world and to encourage habits of mind that serve as the foundation for a variety of future careers for the students.
Mission of the Department
To develop in the students a sensibility for the English language and literature.
• To help students remove the hurdles in the way of learning English so that they can develop their communication and writing skills
• To implement the National Education Policy 2020 in letter and spirit
• To incorporate in the teaching-learning process a wide perspective by including works of world literature in the syllabi, promoting research in new areas and on inter-disciplinary topics.
• To make the Department and the classroom a hub for academic activity and for opening up the latent potential of the students so as to develop their personality too.
• To sensitize students to relate to diverse communities and to transgress academic boundaries and develop a cosmopolitan outlook.
• To explore and reach out to academicians, institutions and bodies for research and academic activities.
• To promote learning of foreign languages
• To organize lectures, workshops, seminars and conferences on the recent and innovative global themes pertaining to literary studies.
• To invite visiting faculty from India and abroad for fruitful exchange of ideas and encourage student exchange programmes with universities abroad
• To help students remove the hurdles in the way of learning English so that they can develop their communication and writing skills
• To implement the National Education Policy 2020 in letter and spirit
• To incorporate in the teaching-learning process a wide perspective by including works of world literature in the syllabi, promoting research in new areas and on inter-disciplinary topics.
• To make the Department and the classroom a hub for academic activity and for opening up the latent potential of the students so as to develop their personality too.
• To sensitize students to relate to diverse communities and to transgress academic boundaries and develop a cosmopolitan outlook.
• To explore and reach out to academicians, institutions and bodies for research and academic activities.
• To promote learning of foreign languages
• To organize lectures, workshops, seminars and conferences on the recent and innovative global themes pertaining to literary studies.
• To invite visiting faculty from India and abroad for fruitful exchange of ideas and encourage student exchange programmes with universities abroad
Achievements
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Future Plans
1. One year:
i. Starting a journal of the department
ii. Continue the initiatives by students which include ‘Bemused Bibliophiles’, the student magazine
iii. Have at least one national conference and one collaborative workshop or conference
iv. Increased number of invited lectures by faculty members
v. Create more opportunities for active involvement of faculty in the mentoring and advising of students.
vi. Increased number of choices and brainstorming with students regarding experiential learning with community projects, video, audio and online projects etc.
vii. Increase the number of faculty trained in digital studies and certified to teach online/hybrid courses.
viii. To have mentoring, psychological counseling, interaction and guidance from alumni, and parent-teacher interactions in more dynamic and regular ways
ix. Promote research in emerging areas like posthumanism, fuzzy logic, food studies, animation and cinema etc
2. Three years:
i. Have faculty get projects from ICSSR, UGC, and ICHR
ii. Research and Ph.D. collaborations with departments like Journalism and Mass Communication, Hindi, Maths, Biotechnology, Anthropology, History, etc.
iii. Start a ‘Writing Centre’ to improve the writing skills of students and faculty, in collaboration with faculty of different departments. The department is committed to providing service to the University's students through a thorough program in basic composing skills as well as the opportunity to take language courses in a variety of forms. To this end, all members of the department will participate in initial writing assessment and guidance.
iv. Offer faculty services on professional level for translation, proofreading, etc.
v. More research in translated works, indigenous and tribal literature and inclusion of such works in syllabus.
vi. Enter into MOUs with international institutions for collaborative research, joint degrees, conferences etc.
vii. Develop MOOC courses
viii. Look for more funding opportunities for projects etc
ix. Develop all classrooms as semi-smartclassrooms and one big hall as conference hall with all multimedia facilities
x. Have water-harvesting, plantation, and solar-energy for the new building
xi. Hold periodic forums at which Department members are invited to discuss their vision and/or practice of the English Studies model.
xii. Create opportunities for Department members to share their work, with a more cohesive understanding of English Studies an emerging result.
xiii. Continue to support public events that showcase interesting work students are doing in English Studies.
xiv. Increase partnerships with other organizations for studies related to LGBTQ, diversity, women and gender
xv. Have a pool of books donated by teachers, students and others which can be kept in circulation
xvi. Recommend books for library acquisition in emerging areas related to literary studies and allied areas
3. Five years:
i. Department will continue and moderately increase its current level of internationalization by hosting international exchange students and scholars as well as develop mutually beneficial relationships with international partners
ii. Develop more MOOC courses on a wider variety of areas, especially those related to emerging areas of interest in literary studies
iii. Provide opportunities for international study and travel for students, and for other sources of international connection
iv. To encourage all English programs effectively for careers inside and outside of English studies
v. To develop courses and activities in cinema studies and encourage students in the field
vi. Continue to articulate and revise a multi-dimensional understanding of English Studies that responds to the changing needs of our students, the field, and the world
vii. Extend and help establish ‘Writing Centres’ in all schools of the university to improve the writing skills of students and faculty
i. Starting a journal of the department
ii. Continue the initiatives by students which include ‘Bemused Bibliophiles’, the student magazine
iii. Have at least one national conference and one collaborative workshop or conference
iv. Increased number of invited lectures by faculty members
v. Create more opportunities for active involvement of faculty in the mentoring and advising of students.
vi. Increased number of choices and brainstorming with students regarding experiential learning with community projects, video, audio and online projects etc.
vii. Increase the number of faculty trained in digital studies and certified to teach online/hybrid courses.
viii. To have mentoring, psychological counseling, interaction and guidance from alumni, and parent-teacher interactions in more dynamic and regular ways
ix. Promote research in emerging areas like posthumanism, fuzzy logic, food studies, animation and cinema etc
2. Three years:
i. Have faculty get projects from ICSSR, UGC, and ICHR
ii. Research and Ph.D. collaborations with departments like Journalism and Mass Communication, Hindi, Maths, Biotechnology, Anthropology, History, etc.
iii. Start a ‘Writing Centre’ to improve the writing skills of students and faculty, in collaboration with faculty of different departments. The department is committed to providing service to the University's students through a thorough program in basic composing skills as well as the opportunity to take language courses in a variety of forms. To this end, all members of the department will participate in initial writing assessment and guidance.
iv. Offer faculty services on professional level for translation, proofreading, etc.
v. More research in translated works, indigenous and tribal literature and inclusion of such works in syllabus.
vi. Enter into MOUs with international institutions for collaborative research, joint degrees, conferences etc.
vii. Develop MOOC courses
viii. Look for more funding opportunities for projects etc
ix. Develop all classrooms as semi-smartclassrooms and one big hall as conference hall with all multimedia facilities
x. Have water-harvesting, plantation, and solar-energy for the new building
xi. Hold periodic forums at which Department members are invited to discuss their vision and/or practice of the English Studies model.
xii. Create opportunities for Department members to share their work, with a more cohesive understanding of English Studies an emerging result.
xiii. Continue to support public events that showcase interesting work students are doing in English Studies.
xiv. Increase partnerships with other organizations for studies related to LGBTQ, diversity, women and gender
xv. Have a pool of books donated by teachers, students and others which can be kept in circulation
xvi. Recommend books for library acquisition in emerging areas related to literary studies and allied areas
3. Five years:
i. Department will continue and moderately increase its current level of internationalization by hosting international exchange students and scholars as well as develop mutually beneficial relationships with international partners
ii. Develop more MOOC courses on a wider variety of areas, especially those related to emerging areas of interest in literary studies
iii. Provide opportunities for international study and travel for students, and for other sources of international connection
iv. To encourage all English programs effectively for careers inside and outside of English studies
v. To develop courses and activities in cinema studies and encourage students in the field
vi. Continue to articulate and revise a multi-dimensional understanding of English Studies that responds to the changing needs of our students, the field, and the world
vii. Extend and help establish ‘Writing Centres’ in all schools of the university to improve the writing skills of students and faculty
