Research and Academic Activities:
The Department aims at gearing up and indoctrinating the students towards secular, liberal, democratic and humanistic behaviour. The Department is working towards establishment of a separate department for sub-continental and comparative literatures in order to enrich the corpus of Indo-English literatures. In view of its liberal and democratic heritage the department is providing research in the following areas:
- Comparative Literature
- Post-Colonial Literature
- Contemporary Literary Theories
- Indian Aesthetics
- American Literature
- Diaspora Literature
- Gender/ Subaltern / Dalit Literature
- Indo-English Literature
- Indigenous Literature in Translation
- African/Canadian/Australian Literature