Department of English

Department of English

The department focuses on maintaining a quality learning environment, incorporating extension activities, bridge courses, remedial classes, peer learning, and value education. Literary programmes like Book Review, Film Review, Quizzard (quiz program), career orientation sessions and workshops are conducted regularly. Glow, an extension programme to help the students of Assisi Blind School, assists them in exam preparation. An add-on course, English for Competitive Exams, is conducted every year under the auspices of the department. Specialized skill- based programs are also offered, with successful alumni testifying to the department's role in nurturing responsible, creative, and socially sensitive citizens.

Multidisciplinary Courses offered by the department as part of FYUGP are Content Writing, Narratives of Humour, Fundamentals of Advertising and Public Relations, Sports Literature and Cinema.

Programme Seat Complementary Course Open Course Choice Based Course Syllabus
B.A. English (Model II Voc.) 24 Educational Psychology, Education in India, Evolution of Literary Movements I&II English for Careers Regional Literature in Translation View / Download

Prof. Juno Jose ( HOD )
Assistant Professor
M.A.
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Prof. Lekha Francis
Assistant Professor
M.A
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Prof. Stephy Thomas
Assistant professor
MA, B. Ed.
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Prof. Theresa John
Assistant Professor
M.A.
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Ms. Dona Maria Saju
Assistant Professor
M.A.
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Prof. Harry C Joseph
Assistant Professor
M.A.
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Prof. Aby Johny
Assistant Professor
M.A.
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VIEW PROGRAMME OUTCOME OF B.A. ENGLISH

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Authors Year of Publication Title of the Paper Journal / Volume Pages ISBN
Lekha Francis 2013 The Serious and The Comic: A Bakthinian Reading of Doestoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov Research Lines, Volume VI ISSN.0975-8941
Juno Jose 2013 Unfurling the Unconscious:The Role of Dreams in 'The Dark Holds No Terrors' Research Scholar, Vol III No. III 64-67 2249-6696
Juno Jose 2014 Androcentric overtones and antifeministic undercurrents in 'Waiting for Godot' Baselius Researcher 0975-8658
Stephy Thomas 2018 Trauma of Relationship: A study of the Traumatic Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and The Bluest Eye Unclaimed Experiences and Forbidden Truths: Trauma in all Manifestations ISBN-978-93-5346-453-0
Stephy Thomas 2020 Smudged Mirrors: Mirroring the Archetypes in Kalidasa’s Abhijnana Shakuntalam Book- Psychosocial perspectives in Literature, Media and Culture 978-93-90588-67-1
Dona Maria Saju 2020 Brathwaite and the Caribbean Awakening Journal of Critical Reviews, 7(14) 3248-3251 2394-5125
Dona Maria Saju, Rijo John 2020 Journey as an Exodus: The Refugee Vamoose in Khaled Hosseini's Sea Prayer International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 24(5) 1475-7192
Dona Maria Saju, Dr. Sruthi N, Dr. Bichu X. Malayil 2020 Aarachar as a Clarion Call for Individualism PalArch's Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/ Egyptology, 17(9) 5505-5509 1567-214x
Dona Maria Saju 2020 The Beast and the Beauty: An Exegesis on Historical Romances Elementary Education Online, 20(5) 5617-5619 1305-3515
Dona Maria Saju 2019 Nature in 'Black and White' Hands: The Environmental Aesthetics in Selected Poems of Gabriel Okara Literary Findings, 8(6) 34-37 2278-2311
Dona Maria Saju 2021 Torn Hearts and Bleeding Populace: A True Reflection of Partition in Train to Pakistan Sambodhi, 44(1) 27-32 2249-6661
Theresa John 2013 The Unfulfilled Body; The Logic of Desire in David Hare's "Plenty" Research Scholar, Vol. IV No.2 1-4 2249-6696
Theresa John 2015 Phantom of Plenitude in David Hare's "Plenty" Vol V, No.1 98-100 2249-6696
Thersa John and Swapna Mary Varghese 2021 Mapping the Differences: Intersectionality in Audre Lorde's Select Works Intersectionality in Audre Lorde's Select Works
Harry C Joseph 2021 “The Malicious Duke: A Tragic Reading of Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess” RJOE Vol. 6 Issue 4 307-312
Harry C Joseph 2021 Noble Savage: A Re-reading of Childhood Innocence as a Disguise in Joyce Cary’s Short Story “Growing Up” IJTELL Vol 2 Issue 4 56-59
Harry C Joseph 2021 The Winged Chariot and the Harmonic Oscillator: Objective Time and Subjective Human Being in John Green’s The Fault in our Stars IJOES Vol 3 Issue 12 119-123
Harry C Joseph 2021 No Woman’s Land: Intersectionality in Alice Walker’s Essay “In Search of our Mother’s Gardens” RJOE Vol 6 Issue 3 362-367
Harry C Joseph 2021 Kronos Amorphous: A Phenomenological Reading of John Green’s novel The Fault in our Stars IJELR Vol 8 Issue 4 215-219
Harry C Joseph 2021 The Forbidden Fruit: Aestheticism and Sexuality in D H Lawrence’s essay “Fantasia of the Unconscious” IJOES Vol 3 Issue 11 121-126
Harry C Joseph 2019 Understanding the Agon: A Dialogic Reading of Anton Chekhov’s “The Bet” IJELR Vol 6 Issue 3 201-203
Harry C Joseph 2019 Human Relativity versus Einstenian Relativity:Problematising the Human Paradigm in the Scientific Expositions of D H Lawrence Quest Journals Vol 7:9 34 -37
Ann Maria Sebastian, Akil Raj 2016 "Voice of the Oppressed: A Study of Postcolonial Afghan" Social Perspectives in Contemporary English Literature, Vol. IV
Authors Year of Publication Title of Book / Chapter Publisher ISBN
Dona Maria Saju, Rijo John 2021 Psychosocial Perspectives in Literature, Media and Culture, Cyberbullying: Menace and Malady Authorspress, New Delhi 978-93-90588-67-1

Students’ Achievements - M G University Ranks

Year Name Rank
2024ANGEL MARY BIJUIII
2024AMIYA C SIV
2024SEBIN LOUISVII
2024RIONA SEBASTIANIX
2024SHINTUMOL SHIBUX
2023ASWINI K ANILIV
2023MERLINE TREESA JOBYV
2023FASIYA ANSARYVI
2023AGNES K JOSEPHIX
2023RAJALAKSHMI RAJENDRANX
2022SREELAKSMI M NAIRIII
2022ALFIYA SAINALBHIDEENIX
2021CHANDINI SII
2021KARTHIKA KRISHΝΑΝVI
2021JISNA MEERA SUNILIX
2021AMINA P AX
2020ADHILAI
2020ASMIN SUBAIRII
2020SAJINA SUNNYIV
2020FATHIMA ANSARYVI
2020ANNU JACOBX
2019SUMAN SUNNYI
2019RAMYA ELIZABATHIII
2003CHERRY MATHEW PHILIPOSEIII
2002NEBU T.ΚIII
2002AMBILY P.DIV

Other Relevant Achievements

2023 - Mr. Sebin Louis (III BA English)

  • First prize in Short film making competition conducted by Hindu College, University of Delhi.
  • The Wise Owl Critics Award 2023 for the short film "Perhaps Myself".
  • Got A grade in All India Forum for English Students Poetry Competition.
  • First prize in Haiku competition conducted by Carmel College, Thrissur.
  • Second prize in Film Festival conducted by St. Joseph's College, Charganassery.
  • Second prize in Flash Fiction conducted by Newman College, Thodupuzha.

2022 - Ms. Faziya Ansary (III BA English)

  • First prize in Maria Philip Future Leaders Debate Competition 2022 held at Chennai.

Faculty’s Minor Research Projects

  • Lekha Francis - "Culturalizing Narratives: A Reading of the Works of Manu Joseph and Arundhathi Roy as Narralogues" sanctioned by UGC and completed on June 2018.
  • Juno Jose - "Enamoured with the Empire: Transition in the Concept of Female Body and its Aftermath" sanctioned by UGC and completed on June 2018.