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English discipline at IIT Kanpur comprises Literature and
Linguistics streams. It runs graduate programmes in both
these streams. The discipline has made substantial
contributions in the areas of Ethnic literatures in
English, Modernist and Post- Modernist Literature, Post-
Colonial Literatures, Literature in Translation, Feminist
Literatures and Cultural Studies, Cyberpunk Literature,
Indian Aesthetics, Cognitive and Computational
Linguistics, Language Documentation and Description,
Language Typology, Historical Linguistics, South Asian
Linguistics, Indian Linguistic Tradition and History of
Ideas in Formal Linguistics.
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information, contact: The Convenor, English
Discipline, Dept of HSS, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur 208 016; Tel: +91-512-2597894, Telefax: +91-512-2597510,
+91-512-3927510,
Email:
achla@iitk.ac.in
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Faculty Members |
Mini
Chandran, PhD, Kerala
University, 1998
British literature, European literature, Translation Studies
and Indian Aesthetics & Literature
minic@iitk.ac.in
Suchitra
Mathur, PhD, Wayne State
University, 1998
Indian Writing in English, Feminist Theory and Literature,
Postcolonial Theory and Literature, Cultural Studies
suchitra@iitk.ac.in
G
Neelakantan,
PhD, IIT Kanpur, 1989
American Literature, Communicative Language
Teaching, World Fiction in English, Literary Theory
gn@iitk.ac.in
Chaithra Puttaswamy, PhD, SOAS, University of London, 2009
Language Documentation and Description, Historical
Linguistics, Language Typology, Language Contact, Dravidian
Languages.
chai@iitk.ac.in
Achla
M Raina, PhD, IIT
Kanpur, 1992
Cognitive Linguistics, Syntax-Pragmatics Interface, Natural
Language Semantics in Theoretical and Computational
Perspectives.
achla@iitk.ac.in
T.
Ravichandran, PhD,
Pondicherry University, 2000
Postmodern American Literature, Literary Theory, Modern
Poetry, Indian Writing in English
trc@iitk.ac.in
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| Students |
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Vinod
Kumar Rawat
Roll No.: Y6200065
Research Topic:
Email: rkvinod@iitk.ac.in
Barnali Chaudhary
Roll No: Y7100063
Research Topic: Semantics of Classifier Expressions in Indian
Sign Language
Email: barnalic@iitk.ac.in
Swati Guleria
Roll No: Y7100068
Research Topic: Anne Tyler's Fictions of Quest
Email: gswati@iitk.ac.in
Sanjoy C K
Roll No: Y8200063
Research Topic: Nomadism and the Carnivalesque in the Novels of
Cormac McCarthy
Email: sjoy@iitk.ac.in
Smriti Srivastava
Roll No.: Y9100065
Research Topic: Representations of Tribes/Tribal in Indian
Theatre (tentative)
Email: smritis@iitk.ac.in
Payel Pal
Roll No: Y9200061
Research Topic: Rediscovering America: The Poetics and Politics
of Humanism in Select Novels of Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol
Oates
Email- payelpal@iitk.ac.in
Niranjan Uppoor
Roll No: Y9400061
Research Topic: Event Representation in Causative Constructions
Email: nuppoor@iitk.ac.in
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