The department of English was established in the year of 1996. It imparts teaching in UG (Hons. and Gen.) and compulsory English as an interdisciplinary course. The department is headed by Prof. Shreya Talukdar. The other Part-Time faculties are Prof. Madhumita Chakraborty and Prof. Ajanta Hazra. Prof Animesh Roy, Prof. Biplab Mandal and Prof. Runa Chatterjee are serving the department as Guest Lecturer. Prof Basudeb Hazra is a senior visiting faculty of the department. The department has its own seminar library having 139 books for reading purposes. Lectures seminars and interactive sessions are adopted to improve student learning. They have a periodical wall magazine with a strong literature base to enrich the students. In the session of 2015-2016, 78% of students have successfully graduated from this department.
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| SL.No. | Name | Designation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr. Pranab Kumar Biswas | Assistant Professor (H.O.D.) |
| 2 | Raj Raj Mukhopadhyay | Assistant Professor |
| 3 | Shreya Talukdar | State Aided College Teacher – I |
| 4 | Ajanta Hazra | State Aided College Teacher – II |
| 5 | Madhumita Chakraborty | State Aided College Teacher – I |
| 6 | Tanushree Das | State Aided College Teacher-I |
| 7 | Soham Pain | Visiting |
| 8 | Jemima Nasrin | Visiting |
| 9 | Anugamini Rai | Visiting |
| 10 | Sudipta Banerjee | Visiting |
| SL.No. | Course Name | Duration | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | B.A. Hons in English | 3 Years | 65 |
| 2 | B.A. Program in English | 3 Years | |
| 3 | M.A. in English | 2 Years |
| SL. No. | Course Name | Download Syllabus |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | B.A. Hons in Bengali | Download |
| 2 | B.A. Program in Bengali | Download |
| SL. No. | Name of the Book | Name of the writer | Name of the writer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mahesh Dattani: Themes, techniques and Issues | Bishun Kumar & Neha Arora | Atlantic Pub. |
| 2 | Philip Larkin: A critical discussion of selected poems | B.G. Tandon | Spectrum Books Pvt. Ltd. |
| 3 | Philip Larkin: A critical study of his poetry | Shakti Batra | Surjeet Pub. |
| 4 | Twelfth Night: New Critical essays (Shakespeare Criticism) | James Schiffer | Routledge |
| 5 | A reader’s guide to Wallace Stevens | Eleanor Cook | Paperback (ISBN- 9781400827640) |
| 6 | Mahesh Dattani’s Tara: A critical Study | Dr. Rashmi Jain | Lab Academia |
| 7 | The plays of Mahesh Dattani: A critical study | R.K.Dhawan, Tanu Pant | Prestige Books |
| 8 | Twelfth Night: A critical Reader | Alison Finlay and Liz Oakley Brown | Bloomsbury (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides) |
| 9 | Keki N. Daruwalla: Collected Poems (1970-2005) | Edited | Penguin Books |
| 10 | Background to the English Renaissance | Edited J.B. Trapp | |
| 11 | Jane Austen:Women, Politics and the Novel | Claudia Johnson | |
| 12 | Madhusudan Dutta: Collected Works | Ed. Kshetra Gupta | Calcutta Sahitya Sansad |
| 13 | Dylan Thomas: His life and works | John Ackerman | PAlgrave |
| 14 | Dylan Thomas’ Swansea, Gower and Laugharne: A pocket guide | James A. Davies | |
| 15 | The poetry of K.N. Daruwala: A critical study | Ravi Nanadan Sinha | B.R. Pub. |
| 16 | Making India: Colonialism, national culture and the afterlife of Indian English authority | Makarand R. Paranjape | |
| 17 | Michael Madhusudan Dutt | Amalendu Bose | New Delhi: Sahitya Academy |
| 18 | D.H. Lawrence: A Reference Companion | Paul Poplawski | Greenwood Press |
| 19 | Creative Writing | Board of Editors | Orient Blackswan |
| 20 | Creative Writing | Anjana Neira, Dev and others | Pearson: Delhi, 2009 |
| 21 | Rabindranath Tagore’s educational ideas | Cristine Kupfer | |
| 22 | The Ramayana: Prologue | R.K. Narayan | Penguin Classics |
| 23 | Tales and legends from India | Ruskin Bond | |
| 24 | In search of Sita: Revisiting Mythology | Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal | Penguin |
| 25 | Poisoned Bread | Arjun Dangle | Orient Blackswan |
| 26 | Form and Finesse: Communication and soft skill | Shruti Das | Orient Blackswan |
| 27 | Second letter to Uncle Sam | Saadat Hasan Manto | |
| 28 | Three Hundred Ramayanas | A.K. Ramanujan | |
| 29 | Gems of English verse: Poetry until the 19th Century | L.M. Joshi | Orient Blackswan |
| 30 | Oroonoko | Aphra Behn | Norton Critical Edition |
| 31 | The Cambridge companion to Aphra Behn | Laura J. Rosenthal | Cambridge University Press |
| 32 | Charles Dickens’ Great Expectation | Ed. Bibhash Choudury | |
| 33 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | Norton Critical Edition |
| 34 | Understanding Jane Eyre: A student casebook to issues, sources and historical documents | Debra Teachman | Greenwood Press |
| 35 | Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson | Ed. John Killham | New York: Barnes and Noble |
| 36 | Tennyson: His Art and Relation to Modern Life | Stopford A. Brooke | London: Isbister |
| 37 | Dylan Thomas: His Life and Works | John Ackerman | Palgrave, Macmillan |
| 38 | – Mourning Becomes Electra: A Trilogy | Eugene O’ Neill | NewYork, Liveright |
| 39 | The Ultimate Encyclopaedia of Mythology | A Study Guide for O’Neil l ‘ s Mourning Becomes Electra | |
| 40 | Plays of Eugene O’Neil l: A Critical Study | Monika Gupta | |
| 41 | A Study Guide for O’Neil l ‘ s Mourning becomes Electra | Shakti Batra | Surjeet Publications |
| 42 | Collection on Indian Poets & their Works | ||
| 43 | Byron‘s Poetical Works | Wentworth Press | |
| 44 | Communicative English | E. Suresh Kumar & P Shreehari | Orient Blackswan |
| 45 | English & Soft Skills | S.P.Dhanavel | Orient Blackswan |
| 46 | The New Cambridge Shakespeare:Julius Caesar | Ed. Marvin Speavack |
Text Books
1. The School for Scandal – R.B. Sheridan
2. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
3. The English Teacher- R.K. Narayan
4. Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
5. Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
6. Uncle Tom’s Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe
7. The Snows of Kilimanjaro- Ernest Hemingway
8. Babylon Revisited- F. Scott. Fitzgerald
9. Train to Pakistan- Khuswant Singh
10. Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra- Ruskin Bond
11. Candia: G.B.Shaw
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