About the Programme
The field of Digital Humanities reimagines traditional literature through the lens of a digitally immersive world. In an era where literature extends beyond the printed page into interactive, multimodal spaces, storytelling is no longer confined to novels and poetry alone. It thrives in films, web series, video games, digital archives, and AI-generated narratives. At the Department of English and Cultural Studies, we are at the forefront of this transformation, decoding the evolving digital genre by integrating Computational Literary Studies into our curriculum. With the rise of Natural Language Processing, machine learning, and AI-driven text analysis, our students engage with literature in groundbreaking ways, examining texts through sentiment analysis, topic modeling, stylometry, and predictive analytics.
Four core areas of study
Computational Literary Studies
Engage with texts through data-driven approaches like textual analysis, text mining, and sentiment analysis to trace authorship patterns, thematic shifts, reader responses, and cultural trends across literary works.
Digital Storytelling and New Media
Study how narratives evolve across streaming platforms, social media, interactive fiction, podcasts, and transmedia storytelling environments.
Archiving Culture Digitally
Learn the principles of digital preservation, oral histories, and the documentation of cultural artifacts for future access.
Gaming, Narrative, and Interactive Worlds
Explore video games and immersive media as contemporary narrative forms that reshape storytelling, identity, and audience engagement.
Why Choose This Programme?
Interdisciplinary Approach
Our curriculum combines literary studies with science, technology, and management, preparing students for roles in digital humanities, data journalism, digital curation, and AI ethics.
International Academic Exposure
Learn from a globally diverse faculty and engage with international digital humanities networks, conferences, and collaborations, connecting you to cutting-edge research and opportunities beyond borders.
Learn Emerging Digital Skills
Dive into text mining, sentiment analysis, and computational criticism to uncover hidden patterns in literature, from Shakespeare to social media discourse.
Hands-On Experience with Industry-Standard Tools
Master KnightLab, StoryMap JS, Twine, ArcGIS, Voyant, Sketch Engine Tools, and Python-based text analysis, gaining technical proficiency in computational humanities.
Wide Career Scope
Explore opportunities in publishing, media, academia, digital content, cultural research, and related fields.
Aligned with India’s New Education Policy (NEP)
Our program follows NEP 2020, promoting multidisciplinary, research-driven, and employability-focused learning. The flexible credit system lets students tailor studies to emerging careers.
Choose Your Track
Tech companies, media organizations, and design agencies hire people who can combine strong writing with an understanding of how digital systems shape meaning. Roles include content strategist, UX writer, information architect, or content designer — translating complex ideas into clear interfaces, structuring content systems, and shaping voice and tone for products.
Museums, galleries, libraries, and archives (the "GLAM" sector) increasingly need people who can digitize collections, build online exhibits, manage metadata, and design public-facing digital experiences. Roles include digital curator, metadata specialist, digital archivist, or audience engagement lead — work that sits at the intersection of storytelling, preservation, and technology.
Educational technology companies, online learning platforms, and publishers need instructional designers, curriculum developers, and learning experience designers. Your background in textual analysis, pedagogy, and digital tools is directly relevant to designing courses, building interactive learning materials, and developing educational content for digital platforms.
What You Will Learn
Programme Structure
The programme structure outlines the academic curriculum designed to provide a systematic progression of learning through core subjects, electives, and practical components across semesters, ensuring both theoretical understanding and skill development.
Semester 1 — Literary Foundations
Semester 2 — Digital Explorations
Semester 3 — Critical Perspectives
Semester 4 — Creative Synthesis
Eligibility & Fee Structure
Career Paths
Your Career Roadmap
Select a specialisation track to explore the learning journey and career outcomes tailored to your chosen domain.
You build core writing and digital literacy through courses like Introduction to Digital Humanities, Culture and Technology, Research Methods, and Programming for Digital Humanities. You start applying writing to interfaces and learning how digital systems shape meaning.
Courses such as Humanities in the Digital Age, Creative Writing in Digital Media, and Teaching Assistantship develop your ability to design content systems, craft UX copy, and test content with real audiences. Your Social Concern Project becomes a portfolio piece.
You learn digital preservation and cultural analysis through Introduction to Corpus Linguistics, Mythologies in the Digital Era, and Virtual Spaces and Digital Culture. You gain skills in digitization, metadata, and working with cultural data.
Translation in India and India in Translation, Religion, Literature, and Technology, and Digitization of Classical Texts prepare you for archives, museums, and libraries. Your Social Concern Project can focus on building an online exhibit or digitizing oral histories
You study pedagogy, textual analysis, and digital tools through Literary Criticism and Theory, Research Methods, and Programming for Digital Humanities. You learn to structure content for teaching and learning environments.
Gender and Society through Digital Media, Literature of Subalternity, Humanities in the Digital Age, and Teaching Assistantship build your skills in curriculum design and learning experience. Creative Writing in Digital Media helps you produce engaging educational content.
Message from the HOD
Pune Lavasa Campus
"The digital approach to literature and language opens up a plethora of possibilities for students.”
Literature and language shape society in various ways by exploring what it is to be human. It is also the most effective way to understand the culture. Most of the biggest questions could be answered by drawing on literature, language, culture and technology. The Department of English and Cultural Studies provides an interdisciplinary platform to its students where they can learn, share, and apply cutting-edge methods to integrate and interrogate traditional literature and contemporary society. The department offers a Master of Arts in English with Digital Humanities. The programme focuses on developing an advanced under
Message from the HOD
"The digital approach to literature and language opens up a plethora of possibilities for students.”
Literature and language shape society in various ways by exploring what it is to be human. It is also the most effective way to understand the culture. Most of the biggest questions could be answered by drawing on literature, language, culture and technology. The Department of English and Cultural Studies provides an interdisciplinary platform to its students where they can learn, share, and apply cutting-edge methods to integrate and interrogate traditional literature and contemporary society. The department offers a Master of Arts in English with Digital Humanities. The programme focuses on developing an advanced understanding of digital methodologies relevant to research, culture and information sectors. Its unique curriculum helps the students deepen their understanding of cultural practices in the digital age.
With its progressive and innovative approach towards the literary field, students will be well-equipped to navigate the digital literary landscape. The digital approach to literature and language opens up a plethora of possibilities for students. In addition, projects, internships, and dissertations provide them with experiential learning opportunities. Our faculty are involved in interdisciplinary research and open to collaborations at national and international levels. Besides having expertise in gender studies, masculinity studies, popular culture, English Language Teaching, Natural Language Processing, communication studies, subaltern studies, city studies etc., they are also published poets, novelists, translators, and writers. The department strives towards utilising knowledge to not just reflect but re-shape and re-frame society.
Admission Process
- Register with your Email ID
- Login to the Admission Portal
- Fill the Application Form
- Pay Application Fee
- Entrance Test (If Applicable)
- Assessment
- Interview
- Check login page for result
- If selected, Offer Letter attached
- Pay Course Fee Online
- Complete Admission Process
Ready to Apply?
Applications for the 2026 batch are open. Deadline: 27-May-2026.