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English Department
The Department of English at St. Edmund’s College is one of the oldest Departments in the college. Eminent scholars and thinkers over the years have made seminal contributions to moulding and promoting the Department’s objectives of language teaching and the teaching of literary appreciation and research. Besides being the largest department in the Stream of Arts, it is also responsible for imparting instruction to various Streams such as Commerce, Science, Social Work, and Environmental Science where English is a compulsory subject.
Apart from being among the first few Departments to have offered Honours courses, the Department also offers programmes such as Alternative English and Elective English at the different levels of the Under-Graduate Programme.
The Faculty of the Department is well qualified and successfully handles about 2500 College students. The Department offers a lively and diverse range of lectures, seminars, presentations and discussion groups to enhance the skills of the learners.
The Department and the staff are committed to set standards of excellence in the College and are striving hard towards achieving the goal and vision with which this College has been set up.
Faculty Members
Name Year of Joining Qualifications Area of Specialisation Monotosh Chakraborty 10 August, 1984 MA Linguistics Malcom Tariang 01 Dec, 1987 MA, PGDTE Modern Fiction Dr.(Ms) Arundhoti Datta 15 June, 1992 MA, PGDTE, Ll.B, PhD Contemporary Theories in Practice & Reading-Writing Praxis Ardella Challam 01 May, 1999 MA/NET -- Daphinda Fancon War 04 April, 2004 MA/MPhil Indian Writing in English & Feminism Jenniefer Dkhar 25 May, 2005 MA/NET Indian Writing in English Eric B. L Nongkynrih 24 July, 2008 MA/NET Post-Colonial Literature
Click here for Details...Departmental Programmes and Projects during the year 2010:
Apart from the conventional classroom teaching, the Department is also engaged in a number of innovative and challenging courses in English studies and its association with inter-disciplinary intellectual activities with various Faculties. There are lectures by visiting speakers, and regular internal seminars by students.
This year, the Department has been able to avail funds from the UGC to run its Career Oriented Certificate Course in Communication Skills. This is a short term course of 6 months duration. The aim of such a course is to help the students develop communicative skills that will come in handy in their later years. Faculty members from the department as well as resource persons from relevant fields have rendered their services towards the conduct of this project.
The Department also publishes a yearly magazine, Musings regularly. This project is handled entirely by the Honours students under the guidance of the faculty members.
The following is an outline of the various programmes and projects that the Department has been engaged in and responsible for in the recent years:
* UGC sponsored Career Oriented Certificate Course in Communication Skills- July 2010 to Dec 2010. About 25 students were given certificates on their completion of the course.
* A One day Inter College Students’ Seminar on Writing: A Quest for Selfhood was held in the College premises on 07 September, 2010. 3rd year English Honours students from 7 colleges in the city participated in the seminar. Altogether, 14 papers were presented in the seminar. We are currently working on the possibility of publishing the seminar proceedings in a book form.
* Musings – departmental magazine wholly managed by the 2nd year Honours students.
* The Department also organised a special get-together for the 2nd & 3rd year Honours Students in Dec 2010. This gathering was a welcome break for both students and teachers after a long and hectic academic session.Achievements and Activities of Individual Faculty member:
The faculty members of the Department have been regularly involved in a number of research and faculty improvement programmes. They have engaged in Seminars, Workshops, Refresher/ Orientation Courses and also in having their works published. The following is a brief outline of such activities:
Orientation Course:
* Eric B. L. Nongkynrih, UGC-ASC, NEHU, Shillong, 16th Feb 2011 – 15th Mar 2011.
Refresher Course:
* Ardella Challam, Department of Creative & Cultural Studies, NEHU Shillong, 28th June 2010- 18th July 2010.Academic Activities:
Monotosh Chakravarty
Presented a paper on “Examination Reforms” in a Seminar held in Women’s College, Shillong.
Contributor in The Looking Glass: NEHU Anthology of Poetry, Foundation Books, New Delhi, 2010.
Arundhoti Datta
Presented a paper at a National Seminar organised by Centre for Advanced Studies, Shimla & Department of English, NEHU at the ICSSR, Regional Centre, Shillong.
Presented a paper titled “Meaning and Nuances of Referentiality” at a National Seminar –cum-Workshop organised by EFLU & Balwan Parekh Centre for General Semantics at EFL University, Shillong Campus, Shillong.
Presented a paper at an International Seminar organised by the Department of English, BHU held in Benares Hindu University, Benares.
Daphinda F War
Presented a joint paper titled “Place-Sites of Belief” at the International Interim Conference of the ISFNR, held in NEHU.
Jenniefer Dkhar
Currently in near completion of her PhD Thesis on “Re-inventing History: A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s Novels”
Contributor in Time’s inscriptions: NEHU Anthology of Short Stories, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 2010.
Eric Brandon L Nongkynrih
Presented a joint paper titled “Place-Sites of Belief” at the International Interim Conference of the ISFNR, held in NEHU.
Participated in a one day Workshop on Communicative Skills for the Classroom, organised by the department of English, Synod College, Shillong.
Participated in a National Seminar of “Translation, Transmission and Transactions” organised by the Departments of English & Linguistics, NEHU, Shillong.
Contributor in Time’s inscriptions: NEHU Anthology of Short Stories, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 2010.