Department of English

The Department of English at Christ University integrates the study of literature with critical  multi-disciplinary  readings of society and culture. Students are encouraged to explore and create heterogeneous discourses ranging from aesthetic and creative ways of reading and writing to critical and self-reflexive interventions into the theoretical domain. The department takes pride in a balanced, integral approach to traditional forms of literature and contemporary debates in

English Studies.  As a synergetic team of teachers, our varied expertise lie in classical and contemporary literatures, Literary Theory, Postcolonial Studies, ELT, Linguistics, Media and Film Theory, Gender and Cultural Studies.

The National Seminar provides a common platform to students, teachers, subject experts, researchers and activists from all over India for deliberations on  contemporary ideas of immediate relevance in English Studies and related domains. Our National Seminars over the past decade have addressed concerns ranging from art and aesthetics (Backstage Passes), subjectivities (Thinking Subjectivities), multiple discourses and narratives of India (Reading Indias), learner-centered approaches in English Language Teaching to our last National Seminar on  reviewing 100 years of Indian Cinema (Mayabazaar – Feb 2014).