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  Department of English

Address : Prof. Sumanyu Satpathy,
Head,
Department of English,
University of Delhi,
Delhi-110007.
Phone: 27666757 x 1286 (EPABX)

Application Form for Admission to the M.A. English Course 2007-08. Click here (PDF)
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History
Department Profile
Faculty Members
Courses Offered
Achievements
Syllabus
Time Table

History

The Department of English is one of the oldest Departments in the University dating back to 1922, the year of the inception of the University of Delhi. To begin with there were no direct appointments to the Department and lectures to M.A. students were delivered by lecturers from the constituent colleges of the University.

The University Department came into being in 1957 with the appointment of Dr. P.E. Dastoor as the first Professor and Head. Since then it has steadily grown and the present faculty strength is seventeen. From 1970 the Department has been functioning at two campuses, the Main Campus at the Arts Faculty in North Delhi and South Campus at Dhaula Kuan in New Delhi and M.A. and M.Phil courses are offered at both these centres. M.A. classes are also held by the Non-Collegiate Women’s Education Board.

The Department oversees undergraduate teaching at 79 colleges where in addition to the English courses offered at the B.A. (Pass) and Subsidiary levels, there is a three year Honours programme in English which offers courses in English drama, poetry, and fiction, right up to the present, as well as in areas such as literary theory, classical literature, Indian literature, popular fiction and women’s writing.

The Department offers instruction only at the post-graduate level. The M.A. programme consists of sixteen courses spread over two years covering significant literary texts and movements from the age of Chaucer to the twentieth century. The syllabus of the M. A. programme is currently being revised, and the new syllabus is expected to be implemented in 2003-04.

The Department offers a two-year M.Phil programme which was introduced in 1978. Admission to this programme is made on the basis of the performance of the students at the M.A. level, a written test, and an interview. The number of students admitted varies from year to year. Students are required to complete eight semester-courses, evaluated on the basis of seminar discussions, short papers and long papers. All courses are optional, except for a course in Research Methodology and Critical Theory offered in the first semester of the M.Phil programme. In their last semester, M. Phil. students can opt for an individually supervised essay instead of one taught course. On the completion of course-work the student has to appear for a viva-voce examination before a board consisting of M.Phil. supervisors and an external examiner.

The Department admits a limited number of students to its Ph.D. programme. Candidates are required to submit their projects to the Research Committee of the Department and appear for an interview before they are allowed to register. The residence requirement for a Ph.D. student is two years.

The Department has come to occupy a significant place in literary studies and is generally recognized as one of the best of its kind in the country. Its faculty members have authored scholarly books which have received international recognition. Faculty members have also been appointed national lecturers by the U.G.C. or as members of U.G.C. Panels. They have participated in numerous seminars held within and outside the country. The Department itself arranges lectures by distinguished visiting scholars from India and abroad and organizes a national or international seminar almost every year. The Department also brings out, since 1987, an annual publication called The Yearly Review.

In recognition of its many achievements the Department in 1992 became one of the first Departments of English in the country to be selected for Special Assistance by the U.G.C. Under the Departmental Research Scheme (DRS) it is pursuing the following thrust areas: Shakespeare Studies, 19th Century Studies, and Modern Literature Studies.

 Department Profile

The Department of English offers various courses such as:
M.A.
M.Phil.
Ph.D.

The duration of various courses is:
M.A. (two years)
M.Phil. (two years)

Achievements

  Professor Nalini Jain:
Taught in the National University of Singapore 1989-92, and Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan 1996-98.

Professor Mythili Kaul:
Senior Fullbright Research Award, April - July 1992;
Visiting Scholar, Frederick Douglas Institute, University of Rochester.
Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 1969-70.
Lecturer, Yale University, 1967-68.
Assistant Professor, Quinnipiac College, CT., United States of America, 1965-66.
Wilson Fellowship, Yale University, 1961-62.

Professor Rajiva Verma:
President, The Shakespeare Society of India, 1993-99.
Member, Curriculum Development Committee for English and Other Western Languages, U.G.C., 2000 - 2001.
Member, Committee of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, U.G.C., 2000.
Correspondent (India) for World Shakespeare Bibliography (Shakespeare Quarterly) since 1997.

Professor Harish Trivedi:
Commonwealth Scholar, University of Wales, Bangor, U.K., 1971-75.
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, U.K., 1985-88.
Visiting International Scholar, University of Georgia, U.S.A., 1997.
Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, U.S.A., Spring 1999 Leverhulme Visiting Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2002-03.

Conferences and Lectures:
Keynote/ Opening/ Plenary lectures delivered at conferences held at/ by George Washington University, Washington D.C., Universite de Montreal/ Concordia University, Memorial University at St. John’s (Canada), Warwick University, University of Edinburgh, Faculdade Ibero-Americana at Sao Paulo (Brazil), University of Malaysia, the Royal Academy of Nepal, University of Essex, University of Leiden, the universities of Colombo and Sabaragamuwa (both in Sri Lanka), the Australian National University Canberra, and at several conferences in India, including the All - India English Teachers’ Conference.
Invited lectures delivered at the University of California Berkeley, the University of Georgia at Athens, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Chicago (a series of four lectures), the University of Alberta at Edmonton, the Murdoch, Curtin, Melbourne and Wollongong universities (all Australia), the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, the University of Ghent, and the University of Palermo.
Participation in Professional Associations
Secretary (1993-99) and Vice-President (1999- ) of the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Vice - Chair of the [International] Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 2002-2004.

Professor Malashri Lal:
Fellowships: International Fellow, American Association of University Women, Fulbright, American Research Fellowship, Shastri Indo-Canadian Awards, Indian Institute od Advanced Study. Commonwealth Writers Prize, London : Jury member Editorial Board: Journal of Commonwealth Literature.

Professor Manju Jain:
British Council Scholarship held at Cambridge; the Bryce Tebb Graduate Scholarship awarded by Girton College, Cambridge; the Dorothy Leet Grant, awarded by the International Federation of University Women, for research at Cambridge; Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship held at Harvard; American Research Fellowship held at Harvard; Residency at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center, Bellagio.

Professor Shirshendu Chakrabarti:
Visiting Fellowships at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jadavpur University. Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, Oxford University, 1986-87. Inlaks Scholarship 1977-80.

Professor Shormishtha Panja:
Jean Starr Untermeyeer Fellowship, Brown University Lecturer, English Department, Stanford University, 1985-1988 Fellowship, School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, 1995. Organised Refresher Course for College Teachers, CPDHE, Univ. of Delhi, 1998. Fellow, Salzburg Seminar, Shakespeare Around the Globe Salzburg, Austria, 2000. Paper presenter at Shakespeare World Congress, Valencia, Spain, 2001.

Professor Sumanyu Satpathy:
Seminars/ Conferences:
Presented Papers at international conferences on India and Canada: Comparative Perspectives (March 1999, Shimla, India) and Children’s Literature and fin de siecle (July 1999, Calgary). Fellowships:
Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellow, 2000.

Professor Alok Rai:
Rhodes Scholarship, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1968-71. Commonwealth Academic Staff Scholarship, University College, London, 1977-81. ICSSR Senior Fellowship, Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi, 1985-87.

Dr. Udaya Kumar:
Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1995-97. North Senior Scholar, St. John’s College, Oxford, 1986-88. Inlaks Scholar, 1984-86.

Dr. Sambuddha Sen:
Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Huntington Library, 1998. Residency at the Bellagio Centre, 2002.

Dr. Christel Rashmi Devadawson:
Course-in-charge for CPDHE Refresher course University of Delhi: January - February 2002 on ‘Popular Literature & Culture’, Teape Lecturer for the Westcott Memorial Lectures, University of Cambridge: November -December 2001 (lectured at the universities of Cambridge, Birmingham, Leicester and Warwick on ‘Travelling through Britain: India’s road to postcolonialism’) International conference: Presented the paper ‘Rethinking Romanticism’, University of Jadavpur, February 2001.

Dr. Gautam Chakravarty:
Fellow, Cambridge Commonwealth Society. DSA Visiting Fellow, Jadavpur University, Calcutta (March 2002).

Dr. Rimli Bhattacharya:
Spring 2000: Rama Watumull Distinguished Indian Scholar Center for South Asian Studies University of Hawai’i at Manoa 1996-1998: Senior Research Fellowship, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India.













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