Year of Establishment: 1960
Head of the Department: Dr. Naresh Thakur
Total No. of approved faculty strength: 04 (Four)
Faculties of the Department (Regular):
Sl. No. | Name | Designation | Year of Joining | Qualification |
1 | Dr. Naresh Thakur | Associate Professor | 1998 | MA,PhD, UGC-NET |
2 | Dr. Nipam Kumar Saikia | Assistant Professor | 2001 | MA, PhD, UGC-NET, SLET |
3 | Dr. Mita Hazarika | Assistant Professor | 2005 | MA, MPhil, PhD, PGDTE |
4 | Mr. Dipankar Saikia | Assistant Professor | 2005 | MA,MPhil, PhD (Thesis Submitted) |
5 | Dr. Pranita Dey | Assistant Professor (Guest) | 2021 | MA, PhD |
6 | Miss Sanghamitra Devi | Assistant Professor (Guest) | 2021 | MA, UGC NET |
Brief introduction to the Department:
The Department of English was started with the establishment of the college in 1960. Initially, the Department of English offered instructions to BA General Course students. When Intermediate Course was started, English was taught to them besides the BA students. With the introduction of Science Stream in 1970, the department also started teaching English to the intermediate students of Science stream. Gradually, BSc, BCom and BCA courses were also introduced and the department has been teaching the students of these streams since then. Moreover, since 1985-86, the department has been offering BA Honours Course also. The Government of Assam sanctioned three posts in Arts stream and one post in Science stream for this department. The department has currently four permanent teachers and as such three temporary teachers need to be appointed for every academic session. The department boasts of a good number of alumni who have been well-placed in various government jobs.
Laboratory facilities available: A Language Laboratory is available.
Prominent alumni of the Department:
- Mr Nurjamal Sarkar, Former Minister, Assam Government
- Mr prabin Hazarika, Former Minister, Assam Government
- Mr Pramod Borthakur, MLA, Biswanath LAC
- Mr Biswajit Saikia, ACS: Circle Officer, Biswanath
- Dr Mrinal Kumar Borah, MA PhD, Registrar, MSSU & Former Principal, Biswanath College,
- Late Purna Hazarika, Former Principal, Biswanath College & former President, Biswanath College Governing Body.
- Dr Nipam Kumar Saikia, Assistant Professor of English, Biswanath College
- Dr Mita Hazarika, Assistant Professor of English, Biswanath College
- Mr Dipankar Saikia, Assistant Professor of English, Biswanath College
- Dr Paban Upadhyaya, Asstt Commissioner, Gohpur
- Dr Pranita Dey, Guest Faculty, Department of English, Biswanath College
- Dr Dharmendra Baruah, Asstt professor of English, Tezpur College
- Ms Nirupama Dey, Asstt Professor of English, Duliajan College
- Ms Nabanita Hazarika, Asstt Professor of English, Golaghat College
- Mr Siddhartha Paul, PGT, Behali HS School
- Mr Bijoy Sarmah, PGT, Kalabari HS School
- Mr Hridaya Hazarika, Assistant Prof of English, Chaiduar College
Outstanding results in the Department:
- Ms Nabanita Hazarika, Ist class 6th in BA Final 2011
- Mr Siddhartha Sarmah, Ist class 2nd Position in 2013
- Ms Bhumika Upadhyaya Ist Class, 2013
Course Curriculum of the Department:
Programme Name | Sem | Paper Code | Paper name | Year of Introduction of the programme |
BA EnglishMajor | I | Paper 1 | The Social and Literary Context: Medieval and Renaissance | 1986-1987 |
I | Paper 2 | Medieval and Renaissance: Poetry and Plays | ||
II | Paper 3 | The Social and Literary Context: Restoration to the Romantic Age | ||
II | Paper 4 | English Poetry, Drama and Fiction: Restoration to Romanticism | ||
III | Paper 5 | The Social and Literary Context: The Victorian World | ||
III | Paper 6 | Victorian Poetry and Fiction | ||
IV | Paper 7 | The Social and Literary Context: Modernism and After | ||
IV | Paper 8 | English Poetry and Fiction:Modernism and After | ||
V | Paper 9 | Modern Drama 1 | ||
V | Paper 10 | Modern Drama II | ||
V | Paper 11 | The Essay in English: Addison to Dickens | ||
V | Paper 12 | The Essay in English: The Twentieth Century | ||
V | Paper 13 | Life Writing: Biographies, Memoirs and Letters | ||
V | Paper 14 | Women’s Writing | ||
VI | Paper 15 | Literary Criticism | ||
VI | Paper 16 | Twentieth Century Criticism and Theory | ||
VI | Paper 17 | Nature | ||
VI | Paper 18 | Western Mythology: Introducing Classical & Judeo-Christian Myth | ||
VI | Paper 19 | Indian English Literature:Intellectual Contexts | ||
VI | Paper 20 | Indian Poetry, Fiction and Drama | ||
BA Eng(Gen) | I | Paper 1 | Paper 1 | 1963 |
BA Eng(Gen) | II | Paper 2 | Paper II | |
BA ALTE | I | Paper1 | Poetry | 2001 |
II | Paper2 | Drama | ||
III | Paper 3 | Fiction | ||
IV | Paper IV | Non-Fictional Prose | ||
BSc English | I | Paper 1 | Paper I Functional English | 1973 |
II | Paper 2 | Paper II Functional English | ||
BCom Eng | II | 201 | Communicative and Functional English I | 2012 |
III | 301 | Communicative and Functional English II | ||
BCA | I | 1.2 | Communicative English | 2017 |
BAEng(Hons) | I | Eng-HC-1016 | Indian Classical Literature | 2019 |
1 | Eng-1026 | European Classical Literature | 2019 | |
II | Eng-HC-2016 | Indian Writing in English | 2019 | |
II | Eng-HC-2016 | British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries | 2019 | |
III | Eng-HC-3016 | History of English Literature and Forms | 2019 | |
III | Eng-HC-3026 | American Literature | 2019 | |
III | Eng-HC-3036 | British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries | 2019 | |
BA/BSC/BCom/BCACommunication English(AECC) | I | Eng-AE-1014 | English Communication | 2019 |
BA/BComCC English IRegular Course | I | Eng-CC-1016 | English I | 2019 |
BA/BComCC English IIRegular Course | II | Eng-CC-2016 | English II | 2019 |
SEC (Creative Writing) | III | Eng-SE-3014 | Creative Writing | 2019 |
BA ALTECBCS | III | Eng-CC-2016 | Alternative English I | 2019 |
BCom CBCS | I | BCM-AE-1014 | Business Communication | 2019 |
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