Ph.D. in English

Research work in English aims to produce research scholars who are capable of creative and critical engagement with the contemporary world through their research, transforming the way in which one engages with and reimagines society. The Department of English, under the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), will encourage students to pursue inter- or multidisciplinary research, based on the assumption that concerns raised in literary texts often find resonances or analogies in other disciplines.

The faculty shall make every effort to create an intellectual environment in which a researcher has the confidence and freedom to challenge canonically accepted critical positions and methodologies. The rationale behind any research undertaken in this program is to understand how a literary or cultural text is profoundly influenced by art, politics, style, history, psychology, image-making, translations, and technologies that define the spirit of the age in which literary production occurs. Literary research in the contemporary world should, therefore, be inspired sometimes by present anxieties and discontents, sometimes by new areas of knowledge and visions of a different future; it should re-establish, for its own time and location, the truth or the enigma of any text; and, finally, it should claim its place in the same cultural and moral habitat in which other acts of reason and imagination take place.