Department of English

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Department of English inducted its first batch of Post graduate students in March 2009. Semester teaching and evaluation is scheduled according to the academic calendar. The sanctioned faculty strength is 7 and the student intake capacity is 25.

Events & Notices

      PH. D. /M. PHIL. PROGRAMME, 2011-12
      Covering Letter
      FLYER TAGORE_SEMINAR
      REGISTRATION FORM TAGORE_SEMINAR
      Events
      Notice
      A TWO-DAY INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON TAGORE AND WOMAN
      RET Examination

COURSES OFFERED

The Department of English has structured its semester courses to encourage proficiency in the use of the language for oral and written communication, and to develop advanced functional and applied skills. The focus is on training students in academic writing, textual, editorial and bibliographical skills. This should help them in careers in academics (research, school level and college level teaching), publishing, journalism and web-content writing, to name a few.

The courses use literary texts originally written in English as well as texts translated into English from European, Indian and other Asian/South Asian languages to develop skills of literary analysis and critical interpretation. The primary intention is to extend the range of texts and to incorporate into the study of English as a discipline, contemporary socio-cultural realities pertaining to the context in which English Literature is being taught and learnt in the Indian classroom.

New Course - Literature and Folklore

This is the Folklore course we will begin from this month. Amidst all the dark clouds threatening at the moment,- let me convey my heartfelt thanks for enabling this freedom of mind in the Univ- to shape courses as we think best for our students. And to make teaching more meaningful and fun than has ever been this far.
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FACULTY MEMBERS

	Faculty Name	Designation
	Dr. Jayati Gupta	Professor
	Dr. Sipra Mukherjee	Reader
	Dr. Nandini Bhattacharya	Reader
	Dr. Chandrava Chakravarty	Lecturer
	Dr. Ujjwal Jana	Lecturer
	Sri Somak Mandal	Lecturer
	Dr. Sneha Kar Chaudhuri	Lecturer

Seminars/Conferences/ Special lectures Organized

Conferences

In collaboration with Sahitya Akademi “ Literary Confluence : North-Eastern Trends And Streams”, 18-19 August 2009

Workshops

1. Workshop for Teachers of affiliated Colleges: English Honours UG I Restructured Syllabus 10th August 2009
   
   
2. Workshop for Teachers of affiliated Colleges: English Honours UG II Restructured Syllabus 12th August 2009
   
   
3. Workshop for Teachers of affiliated Colleges: English Honours UG III New Syllabus 23rd June 2010
   
   
4. Student Workshop , “Understanding Drama Through Performance and Theatre”, 4th May to 7th May 2010
   
   

Visiting Faculty

1. Dr Nandita Ghosh of Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, U.S.A. took a 2 credit course on Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children in 2009
   
   

Lectures

1. Mitali Ray : “Keats and the Web” : An Audiovisual Presentation
   
   
2. Abhijit Sen (DEOMEL, Viswabharati) “Background of Renaissance Drama”,
   
   
3. Indrani Das(DEOMEL, Viswabharati) “ Renaissance Art”, Visual Presentation,
   
   
4. Niranjan Goswami (Presidency College) “Renaissance Background: Illustrated Talk”,
   
   
5. Edward O’Shea, Fulbright Teacher-Fellow “Ekphrastic Poetry of the Romantic and Victorian Eras: Readings”, Series of Illustrated Talks 22nd February , 15th March, 2010
   
   
6. Samantak Das (Jadavpur University, Dept. of Comparative Literature) “Darwin and the Victorian Age” 6th April 2010
   
   
7. Krishna Sen (University of Calcutta) “Colonial and Postcolonial Theory” 21st April 2010
   
   

Contact

Head,
Department of English,
West Bengal State University,
Barasat, Kolkata-700126, WB, India
Fax: 03325241977/ 03325241978