Department of

English and Cultural Studies

About

The Department of English and Cultural Studies, in consonance with its mission statement, is committed to promoting an intellectual climate through artistic creation, critical mediation and innovative ideation. It inculcates among its students a critical reading of the self, the society and the imagined with the aim of moulding them into responsible and socially sensitive citizens. The Department facilitates their holistic development by building emotional, academic, social, professional and global competencies. The Department aspires to create a nuanced understanding of canonical and non-canonical literary and cultural texts, their social milieu for an engaged and enduring understanding of life.

Headed by Dr. Shobana P Mathews and ably supported by a dedicated team the department continues to strive, explore and achieve.
 

 

Department

Overview

The department promotes an intellectual climate of critical and creative ideation by inculcating among its students the habit of a critical reading of the word and the world alike. It has geared its academic engagements towards moulding students into responsible and socially sensitive citizens through programs that are designed to facilitate holistic development.

The academic programs offered by the department are aligned with the University’s vision and mission. With programs offered at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and research levels, the core areas of inquiry range from domain in language and literature, to those in and around culture.

Programs currently offered include BA English (Hons); BA (Liberal Arts); MA (English and Cultural Studies), and PhD (Cultural Studies).

 


Message

from the HOD

In an increasingly material world, it is a rare privilege to read, contemplate, discuss and critique ideas that have shaped the world over centuries. Rooted in a domain that necessitates conversations over Time and Space, people and cultures, crisis and resolution, the department of English and Culture Studies is marked by lively debate and discussion leading to reflection and research.Among the oldest departments in the University and largest, we are constantly evolving, practising a pedagogy that is shaped by lived experiences and social needs.

We also offer courses that support English language competence across the University, using relevant and digital modes as well as conventional methods developing and producing our own content and materials.The department offers programs at the under graduate, post graduate and doctoral levels with courses dedicated to the intersections of Gender, Spatiality, Ecology and Service Learning, exploring newer modes and fields of narratives and the concerns of these developments. We provide extension services and consultancies through our in-house Incubation Cell. The faculty is involved in research and patenting projects and open to collaborations at multiple levels.Apart from academic writing, our faculty is graced by poets, novelists, translators and writers and most of us are connoisseurs of the Arts. We support Art and the Artists through festivals, deliberations and other avenues of creative partnerships.Our students are sojourners with us in this quest for Beauty and Truth… thoughts and ideas being the hope for the betterment of Self and Society, persuaded by Dostoevsky that ‘Beauty will save the world’ … the beauty of the human spirit, the relentless pursuit of truths in the hope eternal of a better world.     

Dr Shobana Mathews
hod.english@christuniversity.in

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Reverend Thomas George

Mar Thoma Syrian Church MA in English with Communication Studies (2008-2010)

Greetings
This is Thomas George (Rev) an ordained priest in the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. I was fortunate to be a student of the MA in English with Communication Studies first batch 2008-2010. The MA programme offered to us a wide variety of disciplines. The international mixture of students from diverse backgrounds made the class a unique

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Prashant Parvatneni

Srishti Institue of Art (2010-2013)/(2013-2015)

When I came to Christ University in 2010, I had a very vague sense of purpose. I was fascinated with the form of cinema, and that led me to imagine that I should work in the area of media and arts. Apart from that, I had little to no understanding of art and aesthetics be it literary, visual

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Lakshmee Sharma (Senior Research Associate, Aapti Institute)

MSc Social Anthropology (2014-2015), University of Oxford BA PSEnglish (2011-2014), Christ University

One of my favourite memories at Christ was when the English Department got our class to put up a production of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. Not only was it extremely fun to play Blanche DuBois, but it was also illuminating to find new kinds of writing in what I think is one of the most diverse curricula in

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Chirag Singal

Pursuing M.Sc. Early Childhood Research at University of Leipzig, Germany. BA PSEnglish (2011-2014)

I was committed to Jabberwocky-the annual Literary carnival, hosted by the English Department as part of my Bachelors program between 2011 - 2014. The facilitators always helped us to find the questions within our personal spaces, and expand them to the Universe out there. I was so inspired after reading 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman, that I

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Wajiulla Mohammed

Times Network, Senior Correspondent (2009-2012)

I have plenty of wonderful memories at Christ University, be it the friends I made or the faculty that taught me, 2009-2012 were some of the best years of my life. As a student of Journalism, English Literature and Psychology, I had the pleasure of being under the tutelage of some of the finest teachers from the

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Nimeshika Venkatesan

Ph.D. Scholar Department of English Stella Maris College, Chennai

I was fortunate to have been taught by a motivated, enthusiastic and academically driven pool of faculty members who have helped me find my grounding in Academics. The CEP course provided me with an opportunity to explore advertising, Journalism and other such allied ventures and introduced several professional areas that helped broaden my horizon. I presented a paper

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Parth Charan

Contributing Editor at GQ India at Condé Nast India 2009-2012

The teachers inducted us into the arcane world of English literature in unique ways. The teachers also had a unique way of reeling in the motley crew of seemingly recalcitrant high school graduates disguised as freshmen. Needless to say, it worked. To be honest I had no great expectations of literature altering my life in any significant

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Faculty

Members

Name
Specializaion
Department

Dr ABHAYA N B

 MA, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr ABILASH CHANDRAN R

 MA, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr ANUPAMA NAYAR C V

 BEd, MA, PhD, PGDES ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

ARUL PRABAHARAN GASPAR

 MA, MSc, PGCTE, MPhil ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr ARYA AIYAPPAN

 MA, MPhil, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr BHAVANI S

 PGDTE, MA, MPhil, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr BIDYUT BHUSAN JENA

 MA, MPhil, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

BIJU ITUKKAPPARAKKAL

 MA ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr CHRISTINE ANN THOMAS

 MA, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr DANIEL GNANARAJ S

 MA, MPhil, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr DEEPALI MALLYA M

 MA, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

DEPAK SARAVANAN N

 MA, MPhil ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr EDWIN JEEVARAJ A

 MA, MPhil, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

GNANASEKAR M

 BEd, MA, MPhil ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

JIBY JOSE E

 MA ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr JOHN JOSEPH KENNEDY P

 MA, PGDES, MLitt, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

JOSEPH EDWARD FELIX

 MA, PGCTE, PGDELT ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr KANKAN DAS

 MA, MPhil, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr KISHORE SELVA BABU

 MA, MPhil, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr MITHILESH KUMAR

MA, MPhil, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr RADHAKRISHNAN NAIR D

 MA, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr RESHMA JACOB

 MA, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr ROLLA DAS

 MA, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr SAJI VARGHESE

 MA, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr SAMUEL PRAISE P

 MA, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr SHARON J

 MA, MPhil, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr SHOBANA MATHEWS

 MA, MPhil, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr SREEJITH D

 MA, MPhil, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

SREELATHA R

 MA, MPhil ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr SUMANJARI S

 MA, MPhil, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr SUSHMA V MURTHY

 MA, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Dr SWETA MUKHERJEE

 MA, MPhil, PhD ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

VINOD MICHAEL

 BEd, MA, MPhil ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES View

Vision

Towards critically reading Self, Society and the Imagined.

Mission

The Department of English Studies aspires to promote an intellectual climate through artistic creation, critical mediation and innovative ideation in a culture of reciprocal transformation.

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CHRIST

(Deemed to be University)

Hosur Road, Bengaluru - 560029,
Karnataka, India

Tel: +91 804012 9100 / 9600

Fax: 40129000

Email: mail@christuniversity.in

Web: http://www. christuniversity.in

Vision

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Mission

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