Best University for Ph. D. in English in India

About the Program

Amaravati

English Language and Literature, Applied Linguistics, and Translation Studies make a worthy contribution to the whole gamut of studies related to the humanities and social sciences. Different phases of literary development represent the milieu and nuances of given societies, with a plethora of human psyche-related ramifications. The political shifts and styles of governance highlighting both the ills and positive aspects of society are writ large. The intended PhD programme delves deep into diction, narratology, plot, and those other features that contribute to interpreting and analysing different literary phenomena related to chosen literary production, such as morpho-phonemic, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, stylistic, semiotic studies, etc., in linguistic aspects of study in addition to translation and transliteration.

English Language Pedagogy, especially the Methods of Teaching in respect of documented methods with an orientation towards emergent methodology, reflective practice, studies related to standardised and authentic materials, and assessment mechanisms pertaining to norm-referenced, criterion-referenced, and beyond form parts of different PhD projects envisaged. The PhD programme conforms to the structure enunciated and prescribed by the University. The PhD programme amply stands for compassion-driven research, as enunciated by Her Holiness Amma.

Amritapuri

The department of English was started in 2005 as a supporting department with four members of faculty and it has been the centre of teaching and research activity, attracting PhD scholars from abroad and all over India. The research programme was started in 2008 and 13 candidates have graduated and 24 are doing research (16 full time and 8 part time). Now the dept. has 14 members of faculty and seven of them have Ph D degree.

The full-fledged Five-year Integrated Programme was started in 2012 and it has a well- designed curriculum with a wide array of subjects that will cater to the needs of UGC-NET aspirants and to those pursuing research. The main thrust areas of research are Gender Studies, Eco-critical Studies, Culture Studies, Spiritual Literature, Subaltern Studies and Disability Studies, Film Studies, Occult Literature, Post -Colonial Studies and so on.

The vision of the dept. of English is to equip the learners with essential language skills vital for employability, and to develop in them a mindset for critical thinking, analysis and research in their approach to Indian as well as other literatures, and life itself, while instilling in them the maturity for aesthetic enjoyment, for understanding and appreciating values – social, cultural and spiritual – so that they are moulded into responsible human beings.

The mission of the department is to strive for a passionate and committed drive towards continuous improvement in the delivery, standards, and currency of education, administration efficiency, socially beneficial literary research to create a new awareness of matters social, cultural and spiritual, especially in the Indian context of today which is overly and adversely influenced by un-Indian western value systems and outlook, meeting and exceeding the needs of stakeholders and Amrita University.

Bengaluru

The program has a spectrum of genres in English language teaching and English literature that focuses on the advanced study of literature, language, and writing in the English language. The program is designed for students who wish to pursue a career in academia, research, or other fields where advanced knowledge of English is required.

Coimbatore

The department of English offers students an intellectually engaging and academically vibrant space for research. We offer a Ph.D. program in English Language and Literature and currently the department has more than 30 scholars pursuing their research in varied fields like – Disability studies, Eco-Humanism in Ancient Indian Classic Literature, Indian Women Travel Narrators, Gender Studies, Northeast Indian Literature, Graphic novels and Comics, Multiple Narratives of Ramayana, Regional Indian Films, Indian Literatures in English translation, Culinary Studies, English Language Teaching and Learning etc.

Research at the department reflects how academically engaged we are with movements across cultures, languages and genres ranging from novels, poetry, and drama to film and theory. The department invariably provides an academically nurturing atmosphere to encourage critical thinking and to create agile minds. The publications of our research scholars in highly reputed Scopus-indexed journals by Routledge, Sage etc. are testimonials to the quality of the research work carried out at the department.

Research Objectives

To nurture the ability to engage in intellectually challenging and meaningful research.
To encourage productive thinking and responsive minds.
To chisel the skills to critically engage in academic discourses as an informed scholar.
To develop the intellectual capacity to contribute academically valid research output to the field of English language and literature.

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