I appreciate the cordial teacher-student relationship in the institution and am happy about being given the freedom and the facilities to do the learning our own way.
The department aims at creating a knowledge community with strong human values, discerning social awareness and excellent communicative competence.
It strives to impart an appreciation of the finer aspects of life through a clear understanding of the nuances of Language and the aesthetics of Literature in a globalized world.
The department has been functioning from 1994 serving the then College of Engiuneering affiliated to Bharathiyar university and later Anna university.
On becoming an institution, the department started designing and offering courses to students of all disciplines. The present faculty strength is thirteen with members possessing or pursuing Ph. D. The research potential of the department is rich, with faculty members publishing articles in various research areas like Indian Writing in English, Comparative Literature, European Literature, American Literature, American Literature, Post-Colonial Writing, Women’s Writing, Subaltern and Marginalised Literature, Children’s Literature, Translation Studies, etc.
Programs offered:
- B. A. English Language and Literature
- M. A. in English Literature & Literary Theory
- Ph. D. in English (Part time/Full time)
| Year of Publication | Publication Type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Conference Paper | Shobana K. and Sudakshina Bhattacharyya, “Inheritance of restricted mindscapes - a Neocolonial Reading of Anita Desai’s Winterscape”, in National conference on Exile Literature, Mother Teresa Women’s University, Kodaikanal, 2015. |
| 2015 | Book Chapter | Shobana K. and Sudakshina Bhattacharyya, “Inheritance of restricted mindscapes: a Neocolonial Reading of Anita Desai’s "Winterscape"”, in The Contours of Women Diaspora, 2015. |
| 2015 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman and Sandhya V., “The Personal and Social World of Marginalization in Mahashwetha Devi’s Mother of 1084”, in International Conference on “Marginalization and Indian English Literature, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune, 2015. |
| 2015 | Book Chapter | Harini Jayaraman and Priya M. G., “The relevance of Sri Aurobindo’s ‘The Upanishads’ in the 21st century multilingual world(in print)”, in Joy in Translation, 2015. |
| 2015 | Book Chapter | Harini Jayaraman and Priya M. G., “An Odyssey into the Future holding Kabir’s hands(in print)”, in History, Memory and Time, Routledge publication, 2015. |
| 2015 | Book Chapter | Harini Jayaraman and Priya M. G., “The Interminable Journey of an Expatriate : Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant(in print)”, in Literature of the South Asian Diaspora, Y-King publication: , 2015. |
| 2015 | Conference Paper | Ankusha Bandyopadhyay, “The Lost Dreams – Identity Crisis as felt by Women in the Works of Jhumpa Lahiri”, in Two Day National Seminar on Celebrating Gynergy: Women in the Public Domain, Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Kochi, 2015. |
| 2015 | Book Chapter | Ankusha Bandyopadhyay, “The Voice of Resistance in The Calcutta Chromosome (Accepted)”, in Literature of the Indian Diaspora - Edited by Ajay K.Chaturvedi and Bhisun Kumar, vol. 1, 2015. |
| 2015 | Conference Paper | Teena V., “Between Powerlessness and power: The plight of the marginalized women in Gopala Krishna Gandhi’s Refuge”, in National Seminar, Fathima College, Madurai, 2015. |
| 2015 | Conference Paper | Teena V., “Negotiating Space: A Study of Marginalized Discourses in Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey and Gandhi’s Refuge”, in UGC Sponsored International Conference on Marginalization and Indian English Literature, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune, 2015. |
| 2015 | Conference Paper | G. Saravana Prabhu, “Wedding Woes: Content and Discontent- a Reading of The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor”, in Celebrating gynergy: Women in Public Domain, Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Kochi , 2015. |
| 2014 | Journal Article | Teena V., “Between powerlessness and power: A study of the marginalized women in Gopala Krishna Gandhi’s Refuge”, International Journal of English Language, Literature and Humanities, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 293-299, 2014. |
| 2014 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman, “The Question of Hybridity in Chitra Banarjee Diwakaruni’s Novel Oleander Girl”, in International Seminar on ‘Reading / Understanding Fiction in Contemporary Times, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, in collaboration with Sahitya Academy & ICSSR, New Delhi, 2014. |
| 2014 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman and Sandhya V., “The World of Das & Roy from Children’s Perspective”, in International Conference on Post Modernism and Indian English Literature, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Yashwantrao Mohite College, Pune , 2014. |
| 2014 | Journal Article | Geetha Senthilkumar, “Promoting the Strategies of TCT Teaching”, International Journal of English Language, Literature and translation Studies , vol. 1, pp. 59-62, 2014. |
| 2014 | Journal Article | Geetha Senthilkumar, “The Predicament of a Jew in Defence of his Race”, Journal of International Research For Multidisciplinary , vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 547-557, 2014. |
| 2014 | Journal Article | Geetha Senthilkumar, “In search of an Identity worthy of Commitment ”, Journal of English Language and Literature, 2014. |
| 2014 | Conference Paper | Nandhini I., “An Eco critical Reading of the Nature motif in the select poems of Robert Frost ”, in National Seminar - Perspectives 2014, Amrita School of Arts & Science, Kochi, 2014. |
| 2014 | Journal Article | Akhil V. P., “Ecology and Literature: An analysis of Thomas Hardy's Novel as Novels of Character & Environment”, Down to Earth, 2014. |
| 2014 | Conference Paper | Akhil V. P., “Ecology and Literature: An Analysis of Thomas Hardys' Novel as Novels of Character and Environment”, in Perspectives 2014, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, 2014. |
| 2014 | Journal Article | Sandhya V., “From Coziness through Confusion to Reconciliation: A Journey of Das Women in Illuminati”, International Journal of Language, Literature and Cross Cultural Studies, vol. 5, pp. 101-110, 2014. |
| 2014 | Journal Article | Priya M. G., “My dear dear dear D.. (Poetry)”, International Journal of English: Literature, Language & Skills, vol. 3, no. Special Issue 2, p. 47, 2014. |
| 2013 | Journal Article | G. Saravana Prabhu, “Sexuality in Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place ”, Labyrinth, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 113-119, 2013. |
| 2013 | Conference Paper | Geetha Senthilkumar, “Challenges Faced by Women in workplace ”, in DHRUTI International Conference of Women in Computing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, 2013. |
| 2013 | Conference Paper | Ankusha Bandyopadhyay, “Representation of Reality Through the Fantastic: Haja- ba- ra- la”, in International Conference on Humour: Texts, Contexts, Littcrit and UGC Area Study Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Kerala, 2013. |
| 2013 | Journal Article | G. Saravana Prabhu and C., C., “Self-Directed Language Learning”, Elixir- Arts and Humanities, no. May Issue, 2013. |
| 2012 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman and Priya M. G., “From Delhi to Halifax and Beyond: The Journey of The Immigrant”, in Literary/Linguistic Responses to Contemporary Socio-Cultural and Paradigm Shifts in India and Canada: A Comparative Study, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappally, 2012. |
| 2012 | Journal Article | G. Saravana Prabhu, “Interpersonal Conflict in Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place”, Labyrinth, vol. 3, pp. 133-136, 2012. |
| 2011 | Journal Article | Priya M. G. and Harini Jayaraman, “The Non- sectarian Concept of Religion as Seen in Tagore and Kabir”, M S Academic, vol. 1, pp. 42-49, 2011. |
| 2011 | Journal Article | Harini Jayaraman and Priya M. G., “Ruminations of Mysticism in Rabindranath Tagore and Rumi”, M S Academic, vol. 4, pp. 42-49, 2011. |
| 2011 | Book Chapter | Harini Jayaraman, “Shakespeare : The Capitalist”, in Reconstructing Shakespeare- Rebuilding His Plays in Contemporary Literary Environment, Ed. Lakshmanan V., New Delhi: Authors Press, 2011. |
| 2011 | Book Chapter | Priya M. G., “Imprint of Shakespeare on Indian Stage”, in Reconstructing Shakespeare- Rebuilding His Plays in Contemporary Literary Environment, Ed. Lakshmanan V., New Delhi: : Authors Press, 2011. |
| 2011 | Book Chapter | Geetha Senthilkumar and Ambika P., “Masculine Traits in the Feminine-self: An Archetypal Approach”, in Reconstructing Shakespeare- Rebuilding His Plays in Contemporary Literary Environment, Ed. Lakshmanan V., New Delhi: Authors Press, 2011, pp. 79-84. |
| 2011 | Conference Paper | G. Saravana Prabhu, “Use of Creative Language by Gloria Naylor in The Women of Brewster Place”, in International Congress on English Grammar (ICEG-2011), Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Erode, 2011. |
| 2011 | Journal Article | Priya M. G., “Who can Answer Them? (Poetry)”, Labyrinth, vol. 2, no. 2, p. 203, 2011. |
| 2010 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman and Priya M. G., “The Relevance of Sri Aurobindo’s ‘The Upanishads’ in the 21st century multilingual world”, in The Role of Translation in Nation Building, Lingua India, New Delhi, 2010. |
| 2010 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman, “Sri Aurobindo, the Inaugurator of Modern Indian Criticism”, in Re – Reading Sri Aurobindo, Pondicherry, 2010. |
| 2010 | Journal Article | Sreena K., "Dream," (Poetry) Labyrinth: The Biannual Literary Journal of Postmodernism, Vol. 1, No. 2, September 2010. |
| 2010 | Conference Paper | G. Saravana Prabhu, “Use of Multimedia in Teaching English”, in International Congress on English Grammar (ICEG-2010), Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode, 2010. |
| 2009 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman and Priya M. G., “Use of Technology in Teaching Cross-Cultural Issues for Advanced Level Learners of English”, in International Conference on Emerging Trends in Teaching Language and Literature (INCOETTLL – 09), Alagappa University, Karaikudi, 2009. |
| 2009 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman, “Shakespeare, the Capitalist”, in Reconstructing Shakespeare, Annamalai University, Chidambaram , 2009. |
| 2009 | Conference Paper | Priya M. G., “Imprint of Shakespeare on Indian Stage”, in UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Reconstructing Shakespeare , Annamalai University, Chidambaram , 2009. |
| 2009 | Conference Paper | Ambika P. and Senthilkumar, G., “Masculine Traits in the Feminine self- An Archetypal Approach”, in National Seminar on Reconstructing Shakespeare, Annamalai University, Chidambaram , 2009. |
| 2009 | Conference Paper | Sreena K., "Blogging: The Displacement of Grand Narratives CCL", University of Hyderabad and EFL University Hyderabad, January 28 - 31 2009. |
| 2008 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman, “Sir Aurobindo’s Philosophy in his Vasavadutta”, in National Seminar on Indian Drama in English, Gandhigram University, Dindugul, 2008. |
| 2008 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman, “Challenges and Innovations in Machine Translation”, in Translation across Cultures: Linguistic Bridge Building For Global Integration, M.P.M.M.S.N Trust Collage, Shoranur, 2008. |
| 2008 | Conference Paper | Smitha, "English: A Blessing in Disguise", A Study of Chinua Achebe's Technique of Hybridization. Karunya University, Coimbatore, November 28 - 29, 2008. |
| 2008 | Conference Paper | Krishna Lalith K. A., "Common Errors committed by ESL learners & the Remedial English classes", Karunya University, Coimbatore, November 28 - 29, 2008. |
| 2008 | Conference Paper | Geetha Senthilkumar, “Play-within-Play as explored by Girish Karnard in Hayavadana and Tugla”, in National Seminar on Indian Drama in English, Gandhigram Rural University, Gandhigram, 2008. |
| 2007 | Conference Paper | Geetha Senthilkumar, “Moral Vision based on Suffering and Compassion (in Bernard Malamud’s novel-The Fixe”, in National Conference on Innovative Approaches and Techniques of Teaching English, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, 2007. |
| 2007 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman, “Teaching Vocabulary for Competitive Examinations”, Crescent Engineering College, Chennai, 2007. |
| 2006 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman, “ELT and e-learning – A Case Study”, in English Language Teaching in the Context of Globalisation, Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, 2006. |
| 2004 | Conference Paper | Ambika P. and Harini Jayaraman, “Teaching Phrasal Verbs: A Challenge”, in Second International Congress on English Grammar, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, 2004. |
| 2004 | Conference Paper | Geetha Senthilkumar, “Family Relationship in Bernard Malamud’s Novel - The Assistant ”, in National Seminar on Emerging Trends in Literary Theory and Research, ST. Aloysius College, Mangalore, 2004. |
| 2004 | Book Chapter | Sudakshina Bhattacharyya, “Culture and heritage of Sikkim”, in Planning and perspectives, Sikkim: Planning Commission of Sikkim, 2004. |
| 2003 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman, “Poetical Theories of Sri Aurobindo and S.T.Coleridge”, in National Seminar on A Comparative Approach to the English Language and its Literature, Mercy College, Palakkad, 2003. |
| 2003 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman, “Sri Aurobindo: The Poet-Philosopher”, in National Seminar on Contemporary English Literature (since 1950), Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore , 2003. |
| 2003 | Journal Article | Harini Jayaraman, “Poetical Theories of Sri Aurobindo & S. T. Coleridge”, Pursuits, vol. 1, pp. 61-66, 2003. |
| 2002 | Conference Paper | Harini Jayaraman, “A Peep into J.M.Coetzee’s Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life”, in Commonwealth Literature, Sri Avinasilingam Deemed University,, 2002. |
| 2001 | Book | Sudakshina Bhattacharyya, Tales of Teesta and some poems. Gangtok, Sikkim: , 2001. |
Srishti
The literary club provides a platform to showcase the literary aspirations and talents of the students. It is an excellent forum for self expression and cultural aspirations of the students. Poetry-reading sessions, debates, extempore speeches, quizzes, cross-word games, book and film reviews, play enactments, and classical movie screenings are showcased at the forum. Besides the English events, the club also organizes events in regional languages like Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi.
Gallery
Poetry sessions in the open
Srishti session in nature’s lap
Tradition comes alive on the modern stage
Campus Life
On a festive day in the campus
On a festive day in the campus
Language Lab
A fully computerized 75-seater language lab with state-of-the-art facilities provides an authentic language learning experience. To complement classroom lectures, audio-visual sessions and online examinations are conducted as a part of the teaching-learning process.
Library
Besides the Central Library which is a repository of books, periodicals, online resources like e-journals, e-books, conference proceedings, e-databases, standards, project reports, back-volumes, CD/DVDs and daily news papers, the Department Library supports general reading as well as intensive reading for research, with books of different genres.
A collection of inspirational quotes, regarding the value of a good education, by students articulating their experiences, thoughts, and passion for their academic journey at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Second year, Int. MA English Language and Literature
The high placement opportunities and the well-defined and comprehensive syllabus were a major attraction. Also, the general amenities in the campus keep me happy.
First year, Int. MA English Language and Literature
The fact that the institution is a renowned deemed university and the appealing campus were the deciding factors in my choosing Amrita
First year, Int. MA English Language and Literature
The lab-integrated teaching which enhances the learning process - Learning with the help of audio-visual aids is a pleasant experience.
Int. MA English Language and Literature
My parents felt the campus is safe for girl students.
Int. MA English Language and Literature
Hostel life has taught me a lot and I’ve got a lot of friends.
Int. MA English Language and Literature
