The Department of English is one of the nine Departments that constituted the Andhra University Post Graduate Centre that was started in 1967. Even at the time of starting, the Department offered by way of innovation and experimentation a new specialization, i.e., Commonwealth literature, the first Department in an Indian University to have made the bold venture. Since then the Department has successfully diversified the courses and added new and innovative specializations, covering the entire gamut of Literatures available in English and English translation, be it from America, Russia, Europe, Africa, Asia, New Zealand, West Indies, Canada, Australia, without at the same time losing its basic character. Keeping pace with the times New Literatures written in English have acquired enough space in the Department.
The Department has above 400 published research articles, 18 books, 215 Ph.D & 225 M.Phil. Degrees to its credit. The present faculty organized two Regional, 10 National & 6 International seminars/Conferences.
Research is active in the areas of British Literature, American Literature, Indian Writing in English (including Parsee Writing in English), Commonwealth Literatures from Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Caribbean and South Asia, Translation Studies, European Literature, Comparative Literature, Contemporary World Literatures, Linguistics, ELT & Second Language Acquisition and Asian Classics in Translation.
HOD, Department of English,University College of Arts,Commerce & law,
NH16, Nagarjuna Nagar, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh 522510
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