MPhil Courses offered by Current Faculty Members

1. A Politics of Erotics: Sexualities in New Indian Visual Cultures (Brinda Bose)

2. A Voice of Her Own (Shormishtha Panja)
3. Autobiography and Questions of the self (Udaya Kumar)
4. Caste and the Question of Religious Belonging (Tapan Basu)
5. Childrens Literature: Childhood, Pedagogy and Literary Forms (Rimli Bhattacharya)
6. Culture And Crime: Golden Age Detective Fiction (Christel Rashmi Devadawson)
7. Dalit Literature: Texts and Contexts (Raj Kumar)
8. Dissent and the Shaping of South Asia (Christel Rashmi Devadawson)
9. Empire, Knowledge and After (Gautam Chakravarty)
10. Foundations of Aesthetic Theory (Udaya Kumar)
11. Gender, Body and Space: Nineteenth Century Novel in England and India (Sambudha Sen and Udaya
Kumar)
12. Globalization, Cosmopolitanism, and the Postcolonial Novel (Ira Raja)
13. Human Nature, Politics and Language in Early 18th Century Britain (Shirshendu Chakrabarti)
14. Identity in Modern American Drama (Rupendra Guha Majumdar)
15. Imagined States (Ira Raja)
16. Intertextual Tensions/Affinities between Modern American Drama and Cinema (Rupendra Guha
Majumdar)
17. Intertextualities: Modern and Postmodern (Sumanyu Satpathy)
18. Literary History and the Nineteenth Century (Rochelle Pinto)
19. Literature and Political Imagination (Prasanta Chakravarty)
20. Meaning in Language (Hany Babu)
21. Modern India in Paint and Print (Christel Rashmi Devadawson)
22. Modernity, Literature and History (Rochelle Pinto)
23. New Themes in the Study of Culture and Power (Udaya Kumar)
24. Of Race and Class: The Self-Positioning of the African-American Writer in the Civil Rights Era and
Beyond (Tapan Basu)
25. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (Ira Raja)
26. Reading Modernisms and Desire (Brinda Bose)
27. Remembering Heavens Face: American Representations of the Vietnam War (Subarno Chattarji)
28. Representations of the Self in African-American Literature (from 1850s to 1990s) (Tapan Basu)
29. Rethinking Culture and Power (Udaya Kumar)
30. Sexual Dissidence and Modernism (Sumanyu Satpathy)
31. Shakespeare and Media: the idea of Intertextuality (Rupendra Guha Majumdar)
32. Shakespeares Afterlife (Shormishtha Panja)
33. The Body in Performance: Comparative Contexts in the 20th Century (Rimli Bhattacharya)
34. The Body and Victorian Culture (Sambudha Sen)

35. The City in American Fiction (Tapan Basu)

36. The Construction of Social Space in the 19th Century English Novel (Sambudha Sen)
37. The Culture Concept through Comics to Graphic Novels (Nandini Chandra)
38. The Intellectual Foundations of the Renaissance in Europe (Shirshendu Chakrabarti)
39. The Jungle and The Book: From Kipling to Bhajju (Rimli Bhattacharya)
40. The Perverts Guide to Girls (Nandini Chandra)
41. The Progressives, 1932-1973 (Nandini Chandra)
42. The Short Story and Comparative Contexts (Rimli Bhattacharya)
43. The Totality of Things: Raymond Williams (1921-1988) (Nandini Chandra)
44. The Visual and the Verbal: Theory and Representation in Art and Literature (Shormishtha Panja)
45. Theatrical Formation and the Politics of Spectacle-Making from Mid-19th to Early 20th Century (Rimli
Bhattacharya)
46. Touchable Tales: Representation of Dalits in Indian Novels (Raj Kumar)
47. Towards an Anti-Caste Intellectual History: Texts and Culture (Raj Kumar)
48. Womens Fiction: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Malashri Lal)
49. Writing Revolution: Public and Private in Late 18th Century Britain (Anjana Sharma)