About Dept. of English

The Department of English is an essential and vibrant academic unit that plays a crucial role in cultivating a deep understanding and appreciation for language, literature, and communication. Our vision for the Department of English is to foster a dynamic learning environment that empowers students to develop critical thinking, effective communication skills, and a lifelong passion for literature and language.

Vision

The Vision of the Department is to develop the department as a centre for academic excellence through teaching and research that encourages and nurtures literary sensibilities, language competence, and critical thinking.

Mission

The Mission of the Department is to offer advanced, career-oriented post graduate and research programmes imparting professional knowledge, employability andlife skills, as well as inculcating a vision of community growth and development and strong ethical values. The Department will attempt to provide learning and research opportunities in the following Thrust Areas: Interdisciplinary Studies, New literatures in English, Technology in Language Teaching, Modern and Postmodern Literatures, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Translation Studies, Sociolinguistics and Film Studies. The Department employs innovative and technology-enhanced pedagogies, interdisciplinary approaches, fieldwork, andproject-basedd learning toward building a strong foundation of literary sensibilities and language competence.

Goals

• To establish academic and research linkages with national and international institutes.

• To institute a Research Journal of the department to publish Seminar/ Conference proceedings and monographs.

• To launch a lecture series of the department’s distinguished alumni.

• To organize Training Courses/Workshops for life skills, gender equality, Entrepreneurship Development, Career Opportunities in Defence Services, and Competitive Exams for UG and PG students.

• A Research Magazine for Department’s PG and research scholars.

• A well-equipped Conference Room.