Department of English
Thrust Area
Dept. data last updated on :15/04/2024
Thrust Areas of the Department of English
The Department maintains separate Undergraduation and Postgraduation Programmes in Literature and English Language Teaching with a a large PhD research programme involving over 200 research scholars every year. As such, the department maintains interests in various thrust areas not limited to-
A. English Literature:
(i) Drama: Elizabethan to Modern, (British, American and Continental).
(ii) Poetry: Elizabethan to Modern.
(iii) Prose and Fiction: From 17th Century to the Modern.
(iv) Literary Criticism and Theory
(v) Performance Studies
(vi) Digital Humanities
(vii) Subaltern and Disability Studies
(viii) Environmental Studies
B. English Language Teaching (ELT):
(i) Theoretical and Applied Linguistics:
Phonetics, Grammar, Psycholinguistics (Theories of Language Learning, Inter language, Error Analysis)
Sociolinguistics, (Functions and Variations of Language; Language, Society and Culture,
Communicative Competence, Discourse Analysis)
(ii) Teaching of Skills and Elements of Language
(iii) Syllabus Designing and Material Production and Testing
(i) Drama: Elizabethan to Modern, (British, American and Continental).
(ii) Poetry: Elizabethan to Modern.
(iii) Prose and Fiction: From 17th Century to the Modern.
(iv) Literary Criticism and Theory
(v) Performance Studies
(vi) Digital Humanities
(vii) Subaltern and Disability Studies
(viii) Environmental Studies
B. English Language Teaching (ELT):
(i) Theoretical and Applied Linguistics:
Phonetics, Grammar, Psycholinguistics (Theories of Language Learning, Inter language, Error Analysis)
Sociolinguistics, (Functions and Variations of Language; Language, Society and Culture,
Communicative Competence, Discourse Analysis)
(ii) Teaching of Skills and Elements of Language
(iii) Syllabus Designing and Material Production and Testing
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