Department of English, Pondicherry University

The Department of English was established on 1st December 1986.  Right from its inception the Department has attracted a considerable number of students and research scholars, keen in their pursuit of language and literary studies. The Department has a special focus on Comparative Literature. A paper on Comparative Literary Theory is offered to the post- graduate students in the Department.  Moreover, students, both at post graduate and research levels, are encouraged to take up research between two literatures/genres/ ages.  It is therefore not surprising that many papers presented at the Research and Journal Alert Forum are Comparative in their perspective.

The Department of English strives to incorporate a wide range of subjects and issues under its purview – literary criticism and theory, poetry and aesthetics, fiction studies-modernist and post-modernist phases, Commonwealth literature,  Postcolonial studies,  Subaltern Studies, and Media Studies, Gender, Diaspora and Subaltern Studies.  The Department also has a student exchange programme with Rennes II University in France.

Programmes of study

M.A.  English and Comparative Literature
M.Phil.  English (Full-time)
Ph.D. English 
(Full-time & Part-time (Internal & External))

 Information about the Faculty Members
 
 Professor and Head of the Department

N. Natarajan Ph.D (University of Madras, Madras) Literary Criticism, Modern Fiction and Comparative Literature

Readers

Sujatha Vijayaraghavan Ph.D (IIT, Madras) Specialization: Indian Writing in English, Postcolonial Literature and Criticism and  Translation Studies.

S. Murali  Ph.D (University of Kerala, Trivandrum) Specialization: Poetry, Aesthetics, Literary Theory, Indian Literature, Visual Arts  and Environmental Studies

P. Bhaskaran Nair Ph.D (CIEFL, Hyderabad) Specialization: English Language Teaching Teacher Education Materials Production  

Clement Sagayaradj Lourdes Ph.D (Pondicherry University, Pondicherry) Specialization: Indian Writing in English and Translation Studies.

Lecturers      
H. Kalpana Ph.D (Pondicherry University, Pondicherry) Specialization: Canadian Literature Commonwealth Literature, Feminist Theories & Women's Literature

Nikhila H. Ph.D (Bangalore University, Bangalore) Specialization: Gender studies, Post Colonial Studies and Communication studies