MA (Previous): Students enrolled for MA (Previous) are required to offer 3 Core Courses (Papers I to III) and 1 of the four Elective Courses (Paper IVA/B/C/D) available. Core Courses: Paper I: History of English Literature: 1550-1660, Paper II: History of English Literature 1660-1798, and Paper III: History of English Literature 1798-1914. Elective Courses: Paper IVA: Linguistics and Stylistics, or Paper IVB: American Literature, or Paper IVC: Indian Literature in Translation, or Paper IVD: Gender Studies.

MA (Final): Students enrolled for MA (Final) are required to offer 3 Core Courses (Papers V to VIII) and 1 of the four Elective Courses (Paper VIIIA/B/C/D) available. Core Courses: Paper V: History of English Literature: 1914 to the Present Day, Paper VI: Critical Theory, and Paper VII: Study of a Genre: Tragedy. Elective Courses: Paper VIIIA: English Language Teaching in Higher Education, or Paper VIIIB: New Literatures, or Paper VIIIC: Translation and Translation Theory, or Paper VIIID: Literature, Psychology and Psychoanalysis.

MPhil in English (Full-time)

Students enrolled for MPhil in English are required to offer 2 Core Courses (Papers I and II) and 1 of the six Elective Courses (Paper IIIA/B/C/D) available. Core Courses: Paper I: Research Methodology, and Paper II: Contemporary Literary Criticism and Theories. Elective Courses: Paper IIIA: Poetry; or Paper IIIB: Fiction; or Paper IIIC: Drama; or Paper IIID: Applied Linguistics; or Paper IIIE: Theory of Translation, and or Paper IIIF: Stylistics and Text Linguistics. Owing to shortage of faculty, we have had to restrict these to two. Students concerned have to write a Dissertation of 10,000 words on a subject related to any of the elective areas in consultation with the faculty, depending upon the faculty’s research interests at any given point of time.

PhD in English