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Department of English and Other Languages
The Department of English and Other Languages, GSHSS, has been engaged in training students across all disciplines in language skills. At present, it offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs in English, as well as Minor courses in English and Spanish. In addition, the English faculty offer elective courses in English for Communicative and Professional Uses, Public Speaking, Business Communication & Value Sciences, Soft Skills, Critical Thinking and Academic Writing.
Comprehensive Programmes
The programmes offered by the Department strengthen the department’s unwavering mission of nurturing the critical sensibilities of students through a syllabus that is on par with national and international standards.
Highly Qualified Faculty
The faculty members are strongly committed to research and this is reflected in the in-depth research publications and teaching projects undertaken by staff.
Career Options
This diverse training opens up many avenues for further studies and professions for our students: they can become teachers, editors, publishers, advertisers or researchers. Their practical command over language and theoretical knowledge of the world also befits them to venture into careers as varied as public health, data analysis and large language modelling.
Courses Offered
The department offers Undergraduate, Post-Graduate and Doctoral Programs. It offers a well-rounded curriculum in literary studies to BA and MA students and Doctoral Scholars. Students are offered courses in British, American, Indian and other postcolonial literary traditions. They can also select from a wide range of elective courses. Undergraduate students can opt for courses in transmedia storytelling, popular culture, travel writing, digital humanities and linguistics. The postgraduate degree offers advanced courses in linguistics, cultural studies and literary criticism. These students are also offered the chance to hone their skills in academic and professional courses in research methodology, copyediting, ecocriticism, translation theory, gender studies, Dalit studies and pedagogical theory and practice. The department houses an English Lab that assists in the acquisition of practical language skills as well as a preliminary understanding of linguistic processes.
Faculty
I Madhavi
hod_englishblr@gitam.edu
HOD
Durga Sasikiran Saripalli
ssaripal@gitam.edu
Associate Professor
Manju Jose
mjose@gitam.edu
Associate Professor
Sweta Mukherjee
smukherj4@gitam.edu
Associate Professor
Amrutha M K
akettil@gitam.edu
Assistant Professor
Aritra Saha
asaha2@gitam.edu
Assistant Professor
Avishek Deb
adeb@gitam.edu
Assistant Professor
I Madhavi
minagant@gitam.edu
Assistant Professor
P Sreeramulu
spatnam@gitam.edu
Assistant Professor
Pramathesh Nandan
pnandan@gitam.edu
Assistant Professor
Sheerin Hena
shena@gitam.edu
Assistant Professor
Srijani Mondal
smondal6@gitam.edu
Assistant Professor
V Durga Prasad
dvaddapa@gitam.edu
Assistant Professor