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English Letters The Newsletter of the Department of English, University of Hyderabad Date: 1st January 2017 Other Modernisms In a lecture series on „Other Modernisms‟, The Fourth Issue Pavan Kumar (Telugu Dept.) spoke on Department of English, UoH modernism in Telugu Literature. Bhim Singh (Hindi Dept.) spoke on modernism in Hindi Hello all, Literature. K. Narayana Chandran (English Department) spoke on modernism in Malayalam We are pleased to send you the fourth issue of Literature and Siddharth Sathpathy (English ENGLISH LETTERS, the newsletter of the English Dept.) spoke on modernism in Odiya Literature. Department, University of Hyderabad. This is an attempt to post news of our activities, achievements and programs to alumni, friends and well-wishers of the Department around the world. Workshops and Seminars The Department conducted a One-day The Newsletter will be sent out four times a year. Workshop on Publishing Research on October We hope to continue various activities to report. 3, 2016 in the ASIHSS Hall from 9. 30 AM to 5 P. M, coordinated by Prof. K. Narayana Chandran. The scope of this Workshop was an open deliberation of the problems and prospects of publication by young faculty in our Departments of English. The Workshop was led Department of English by three senior professors: Supriya Chaudhuri, The Department admits into its M.A. program Mohan Ramanan, and Tutun Mukherjee. graduates from any basic discipline. It aims at providing instruction and carrying out The Graphic Novel: Seminar-cum-Workshop research in both traditional and current areas of (DSA-II) 25 Oct 2016 English Studies. In addition to core English This seminar-cum-workshop coordinated by Literature and American Literature components, Pramod K. Nayar, was a mix of the academic‟s it encourages work in New Literatures in and the artists‟ take on the medium. It offered English, Comparative Studies, Cultural Studies, approaches to, and analysis of, the form. The Language Studies and Pedagogy. artist-writer team imparted some training toward reading and composing in the medium. The speakers were Kristen Rudisill, Jai Undurti and Current Faculty Dyuti Mittal. K. Narayana Chandran Office Staff Pramod K Nayar (HEAD) Jayanthi D. Murali Manohar Chandrakala Shakespeare Lives! Anna Kurian Shravan Under the Shakespeare Lives! Program, in Sindhu Menon Raghu collaboration with the British Council, Richard Sireesha Telugu Siddharth Satpathy III was screened in July. The Department Girish Pawar screened two more Shakespeare films during the B Krishnaiah semester: Akira Kurosawa's Ran and Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear. We hope to screen more1 Shakespeare films in the coming term as well. DSA-II Visiting Fellow M.A. Courses Offered Semester II Kristen Rudisill, Chair, Dept. of Popular Culture, 18th Century British Literature Bowling Green State University, Ohio, delivered the following lectures: British Romantic Literature and Thought "Graphic Novels and Pulp Fiction: Popular British Literature and Thought of the Literature and its Publics" (at the Graphic Victorian Age Novel Seminar-cum-Workshop) American Literature and Thought English in India 1: Semester IV Indian English Language Romance Novels Literary Criticism & Theory: The Major Texts- II Bollywood/ Kollywood dance in the Indian New Literatures in English- II Diaspora Modern Indian Thought English in India 2: Disney, High School And we are for the dark”: Musical in India Shakespeare‟s Tragedies The Study of South Asian Diaspora Through Literature and Film Recent Event Structures and Signs of Play: Faculty Activity Derrida/Deconstruction@50 A Symposium, 10 Nov. 2016 On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the K Narayan Chandran has published a paper Jacques Derrida essay, „Structure, Sign and 'Being Elsewhere: "Hills Like White Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences‟, Elephants", Translation, and an Indian delivered on 21st October 1966 at the Johns Classroom', in Pedagogy. 16.3 (2016): 381- Hopkins Conference, „The Language of 392. Criticism and the Sciences of Man‟ five speakers from three disciplines examined and Anna Kurian published a paper, „A Midsummer debated the legacies, such as they are, of Night’s Dream and the Stolen Generation‟, in Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction at this ANQ 29.1. day-long Symposium. Papers were presented by K. Narayana Chandran, Jibu Mathew George, A. Raghuramaraju, P. Thirumal, and D. Venkat Rao. 2 Shakespeare Lives! Reading Session at Salar Jung Museum Workshop on Publishing Hamaara Shakespeare: A Performance by Students 3 Student Achievements Student Activities 1. Shalini Srinivasan's novel Gangamma's Salar Jung Museum Book Reading Gharial (Puffin 2016) has been At the invitation, and sponsorship, of the shortlisted for The Hindu Young Library (English) of the Salar Jung Museum, on the occasion of Librarian's Day, a group of World – Goodbooks Best Author Award 2017. MA English students hosted a 1. Purbasha Priyadarshini has been Book Reading Session on 12th August 2016 at selected for the post of lecturership by the Salar Jung Museum, coordinated by Anna the Department of Higher Education, Kurian and Pramod K. Nayar. Their selections Odisha. were eclectic and wide-ranging: during the half 2. The following MA students qualified hour programme excerpts from several texts were read and performed with energy, verve for UGC NET/JRF: Marjan A U (JRF) and assurance. Amina NM (NET) These included Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Reshma AL (NET) Joseph Heller's Catch 22, Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" and Nissim Ezekiel's "A very 3. Laldin Puii has been appointed to the post of Assistant Professor in ICFAI Indian poem in Indian English". University, Mizoram. 4. K Babu Shankar Rao published a paper Hamaara Shakespeare As part of the DSA activities of the in Dalit Literatue: A Pedagogic Discourse edited by D. Murali Manohar Department and in an attempt to commemorate and Sireesha Telugu. the quatercentenary of William Shakespeare's 5. Surya Kiran has published a paper death, the Department of English presented “Hamaara Shakespeare”, a play scripted, „Cocaine Nights: A Capitalist Dystopia?‟ in Roots International directed, produced and played out by the Journal of Multidisciplinary students of the department. Researches, vol. 3. The students picked various scenes from different Shakespearean plays and stitched 6. Amihe Swu has presented a paper th „Nagas of the 19 Century: A Colonial them together with the monologues, “The Construct?‟ at the National Seminar Seven Ages of Man” from As You Like It, serving as the frame. It was performed twice, organized by the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive on 21st October and 24th October. Policy, UOH. The students traipsed across the Humanities 7. Shybu KP presented a paper Open-air Stage as shuffling schoolboys, grumpy grave diggers, solid soldiers, „Psychological Shakespeare‟ – A Close Reading of the Character of Will mercenary merchants, querulous Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love at queens, egregious elders, wine-red wives, the the Shakespeare and Our Times phlegmatic fool. They cobbled together a large group, scripted in ways that worked for Conference, held on April 14-16, 2016 at Old Dominion University. everybody, made all comfortable in their parts, sought (and obtained) cooperation, toil and enthusiasm. There was a sense of belonging, of working together and taking pleasure in doing so. It was a successful venture and we hope, one which will be repeated. 4 Weekly Seminar Series The Department conducted a series of Weekly Seminar Presentations by the Research Scholars. The following papers were presented: Alumni email ids September 20 1. Rajarshi Banerjee: „Borges‟s Tigers: We are adding to our database of alumni „Framing‟ a Question of the Animal‟ email IDs, so please send any information you 2. Shabnam Rathee „Blue Is the Warmest have about this to [email protected] Color: Figuring Queer body/politics within French Feminist Theory‟ September 27 3. Krishanu Adhikari: „Power-ridden Academic Corridors: A Study of Select Indian Campus Novels in English‟ 4. Amihe Swu: „Nineteenth Century Nagas: A Colonial Construct?‟ October 4 5. Hamari Jamatia: „Governmentality and Contact Us the Pastoral Power in the Northeast‟ 6. Kishore Kumar „Creating a Space We would appreciate your feedback and Within: Interrogating Gender roles in suggestions. the Plays of Rahul Varma‟ Do contact us at [email protected] October 18 Telephone: 91-040-23133400 7. Shalini Srinivasan: „Things and Trauma in Joe Sacco‟s Safe Area Gorazde’ 8. Anjana Ambali „The Aesthetic Land of Scott: Novel and Illustrations‟ November 1 9. Mahmud Hassan: „Historiography and the Partition narratives of India‟ 10. Sushrut Bhatia „Land Management in Maria Edgeworth‟s Select Irish Tales‟ November 15 11. Monica Taruba: „Poetry, Painting, and Music: A Symbiotic Association‟ 5 .