HINDU COLLEGE University Of Delhi

English

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

About the Department

Established in 1899, the Department of English is one of the oldest and most reputed departments of Hindu College. The Department is rooted in the College’s mission of providing a humanist education to its students, by inculcating critical thinking and fostering keen interpretative skills to analyze all kinds of texts. With its emphasis on written work and discussion as crucial components of the learning process, the pedagogy of the Department aims to nurture skills of academic research in the students, to expose them to an exhaustive and professional academic culture, and to train them as competent professionals in the future.

The Department boasts of a highly qualified and dedicated faculty, which has traditionally combined excellence in research with a dedication to innovative and analytical pedagogy. The specializations of the faculty range from Classical to Postmodern Literature, Film Studies, Translation Studies, Gender Studies, Dalit Studies, Children’s Literature, Popular Culture, Postcolonial Studies, and more. The faculty has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and with prestigious national and international publishing houses.

Students admitted to the Department are given a week-long series of orientation lectures initiating them to the various approaches and methodologies of literary studies. Through the various courses it offers, the Department of English also teaches students from almost all the other departments of the College.

The Academic Council of the Department organizes weekly seminars, workshops, film screening and panel discussion. The Department organizes various other invited lectures and conferences throughout the year, including the two annual events – the Lalita Subbu Memorial Lecture, and the Sunil Dua Annual Commemoration Event. The students of the Department publish Prologue, which is the official magazine and literary journal of the Department. They also organize Bacchanalia, the Department’s annual festival. The Department has its very own library which provides useful additional resources to the students.

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Faculty Members

Dr. P.K. Vijayan, PhD, Associate Professor
Mr. Siddharth Kanoujia, M.Phil Associate Professor
Dr. Ashma Sharma, PhD, Associate Professor
Dr. Richa Bajaj, PhD, Assistant Professor
Dr. Arvind Chaudhary, PhD, Assistant Professor
Ms. Payal Madhia, M.Phil., Assistant Professor
Ms. Kritika Sharma, M.Phil., Assistant Professor
Mr. Rengleen Kongsong, M.Phil., Assistant Professor
Ms. Shayantani Das, M.Phil., Assistant Professor
Mr. Akshaya Choudhary, M.A., Assistant Professor
Ms. Vaishali Sharma, M.Phil., Assistant Professor

Festival of Department- 2022-2023

The annual festival of the Department of English, Hindu College, is called Bacchanalia. The festival includes literary and cultural activities, like panel discussion, paper presentation competition, literary quiz, slam poetry, beat poetry, karaoke etc.

Department Magazine-

The Department publishes a bi-monthly magazine called Prologue which publishes fictional, non-fictional, and academic work. Prologue was chosen for special recognition by the Bombay Review. The designing, compiling, and conceptualizing of the magazine is done entirely by students.

Link to issues of Prologue: https://heylink.me/prologue/

SYLLABUS

B.A (H) ENGLISH Syllabus (LOCF)- https://jdm.du.ac.in/Academic/courses/under-graduate/locf/BA-H-English-LOCF.pdf

B.A (H) ENGLISH Syllabus (UGCF)-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/145Ez32by7M1gnbd_hY2oIag4XY7Re001/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SU4WU3Z4HO9n4c-_J0aRhoNp7Iy2dA2b/view?usp=sharing

Time Table 2022-23-

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SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS

INSTAGRAM