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. As a  department, we take pride in our balanced, integral approach to traditional forms of literature and contemporary debates in English Studies.  As a synergetic team of teachers and learners, we exchange roles often with our students and  our varied expertise spans across classical and contemporary literatures, Literary Theory, Postcolonial studies, ELT, Linguistics, Media and Film Theory, Gender and Cultural Studies.

 

The Department invites the academic community of the nation to come together every year in an attempt to create a common academic platform for students, teachers, subject experts, researchers and activists, motivating them to extend classroom discussions, research papers and projects, field work and action research  pertaining to a contemporary and highly relevant area of academic deliberation in English Studies. Our National Seminars over the past decade have addressed concerns ranging from art and aesthetics (Backstage Passes), subjectivities (Thinking Subjectivities), the minefield of multiple discourses and narratives of India (Reading Indias) and learner-centered approaches in English Language Teaching on  re-viewing 100 years of Indian Cinema (Maya Bazaar – Feb 2014) to our latest National Seminar on Minority Discourses in India.