Department of M.A. in English

The Master’s degree course in English (Autonomous) under the University of Calcutta was introduced in the Department of English, Loreto College in 2016. It was the first post-graduate degree course that the College offered and over the past few years it has grown from strength to strength.
The English syllabus has been recently revised and the annual system is being replaced by the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS). It covers the English literary tradition that extends from Chaucer to modern times but also incorporates several new areas such as Indian literatures in English and in English translation, literary theory, writing from outside England, gender studies, and the relationship between literature and the arts.
The department aims to provide broad knowledge of the field of English, including critical and cultural theory and familiarize the students with the tools of scholarship. The programme also emphasizes the ability to write well, to do innovative scholarly and critical work in specialized fields and to make articulate presentations at conferences, seminars, and symposia.
The teacher-student ratio is 1:25 and this allows the faculty to nurture each student academically and provide a great degree of personal care. Smaller classes facilitate discussion, frequent writing, and active student engagement. Besides the members of the Department of English, qualified, experienced and committed Guest Faculty members also deliver lectures to the students of the M.A. course. A faculty member from Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania was invited to deliver a series of lectures from February 2019 to April 2019. Student presentations and seminars are held regularly to foster a culture of research and independent critical thinking on the part of the students.

Faculty:

Sumita Banerjee, Head of the Department (Ecocriticism, the Supernatural in Literature, Fairy and Folk Literature, Creative Writing)
Mangala Gauri Chakraborty, Coordinator of the P.G. Course (Linguistics, Bilingualism, ELT, Self-Access Learning, Writing skills and Distance Education)
Sukanya Dasgupta, P.G. Examination-in-Charge (English poetry and drama, Elizabethan and Stuart historiography, Renaissance art and iconography and Early Modern Women’s Writing)
Sanghita Sanyal (Gender Studies, Tagore Studies, Translations, Culture Studies, Linguistics and ELT)
Subhasree Ghosh (Modern American Literature, Caribbean and Australian Literature, Short Story and literature of the Romantic Period)

Guest Faculty:

Krishna Sen (Modern literature)
Sudeshna Kar Barua (Early Modern literature)
Mridula Kapoor (Modern Poetry, Eighteenth Century Literature)
Bijalpita Julie Banerjee Mehta (Gender and Literature, Post Colonial Literature, Indian Writing in English)
Niranjan Goswami (Renaissance Rhetoric, Shakespeare, Renaissance Thought, The Frankfurt School)
Argha Banerjee (Romantic literature, Poetry of the First World War)
Debapriya Sanyal (The Modern Lyric, Poetry and Critical theory: Adorno, Benjamin, Agamben, The German intellectual tradition from Kant to Habermas)
Mou Chattopadhyaya (Shakespeare and Gender, Romantic Aesthetics, Modern Poetry, Modernism and Critical theory)
Dhrubajyoti Banerjee (Indian Writing in English)
Dibyajyoti Ghosh (Critical Animal Studies, Early Modern English Studies, Textual Studies)
Somnath Basu (Early Modern literature)
Nirajana Bardhan (Linguistics)

Department of M.A. in English Faculty

Mrs. Mangala Gouri Chakraborty

M.A.,PGCTE Head of Department Associate Professor Department of M.A. in English Loreto College, Kolkata View Profile

Dr. Sumita Banerjee

M.A., B.Ed.,Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of M.A. in English Loreto College, Kolkata View Profile

Dr. Sukanya Dasgupta

M.A., Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of M.A. in English Loreto College, Kolkata View Profile

Dr Sanghita Sanyal

M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil., PhD. Assistant Professor Department of M.A. in English Loreto College, Kolkata View Profile

Dr. Subhasree Basu

M.A, Ph.D Assistant Professor Department of M.A. in English Loreto College, Kolkata View Profile

Dr. Sulagna Chattopadhyay

M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of M.A. in English Loreto College, Kolkata View Profile

Ms. Prayrona Biswas

M.A. Lecturer Department of M.A. in English Loreto College, Kolkata View Profile

Ms. Tungabhadra Banerjee

M.A. Lecturer Department of M.A. in English Loreto College, Kolkata View Profile

Ms. Camellia Choudhuri

M.A. Lecturer Department of M.A. in English Loreto College, Kolkata View Profile