Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi

ENGLISH

The Department of English enhances the interpretative and expressive skills of students in an intellectual environment that is stimulating and nurturing. It equips students with both a rigorous knowledge of the subject as well as a critical and analytical ability. It provides an engagement with issues as varied as identity formation, race relations, gender stereotypes and the politics of language. The emphasis is on an inter-disciplinary approach. The courses have been methodically designed to explore world literatures, Indian literature and literatures in translation.

Since 2001, the Department has an ongoing Fulbright Faculty exchange programme with Kenyon College, USA. Through this exchange students at LSR interact with a visiting Faculty member from Kenyon College. Similarly members of the Department visit and teach at Kenyon College. The LSR Department of English also has a close relationship with La Trobe University, Australia and the two institutions have jointly hosted several seminars. The Department of English is privileged to have an extremely dynamic faculty whose expertise in critical theory has been widely acknowledged and whose creative writing has been extensively published.

Faculty

Name	Designation
Mrs Promila Puri	Reader
Mrs Kasturi Kanthan	Reader
Ms. Gurleen Jaspal	Reader
Dr. Rita Joshi	Reader
Mrs Madhu Grover	Reader
Dr. C. Sharada Nair	Reader
Mrs Ruksana Shroff	Sr, Scale
Ms. Arti Minocha	Lecturer
Miss Maya Joshi	Lecturer
Ms Hephzibah Israel	Lecturer
Dr Shehnaz Cama	Lecturer
Miss Mitali Mishra	Lecturer
Ms Arunima Ray	Lecturer
Ms Esther S Narjinari	Lecturer
Ms Deepti R Nath	Lecturer
Ms Megha Anwar	Lecturer

Student Representatives

Name	Designation
Koyel Lahiri	President
Pritika Pradhan	Secretary
Niyati	Treasurer

Course Structure

First Year
I	English Literature of the 19th Century
II	20th Century Indian Writing
Second Year
III	English Literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare
IV	English Literature of the17th and 18th Century
V	**Optional Papers** (a) 19th century European Realism/ (b) Classical Literature/ (c) Forms of Popular Fiction
Third Year
VI	English Literature from Swift to Keats
VII	English Literature of the 20th Century
VIII	Contemporary Literature
IX	**Optional Papers** (a) Anglo-American Writing from 1930/ (b) Literary Theory/ (c) Women’s Writing in the 19th and 20th Century/ (d) Modern European Drama