Department Of English

The Department of English is presently headed by Professor Dr. Leena Chandorkar. The Department of English is one of the oldest departments and was established in 1945. It is an indispensable part of the curriculum as students have English as an Ability Enhancement Course at the entry level of graduation. With the introduction of the NEP 2020 from the academic year 2023, the role of the department has increased manifold. It is offered as a major subject, leading to a four-year Honours course. The Honours course for undergraduates familiarizes them with the basic genres of literature and to the branches of language studies such as Linguistics, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis. There is also a paper on Literary Criticism. In addition to the Major paper, English is offered as an Optional subject for the Arts and Science students and has received an overwhelming response from all streams. The NEP 2020 offers greater scope for innovation and creativity for syllabus framing and the department faculty looks forward to designing more job-oriented courses in the forthcoming years. The Department has conducted several National Conferences in the past.

Our Department, apart from regular teaching process conducts several enriching activities which include:

Guest lectures by Eminent Scholars
Dramatic readings and Presentations of texts
Poster Making
Model Making
Providing E books to students
Paper Presentations
Literary Fest
Virtual guided tour of Ibsen’s museum in Norway.
Study tours outside Pune.

Name	Qualification	Experience	CV
Prof. (Dr.) Leena Chandorkar, Professor & Head	MA, M.Phil, Ph.D, NET	22 years	View
Mr. Vinod Vasantrao Suryavanshi	MA, NET, SET	8 years	View
Mr. Sunil R. Karpatti	M.A., B.Ed., SET	11 years	View
Ms. Meera Jagdale	M.A.,NET, SET	4 years	View
Dr. Sudhakar Ahire	M.A., SET, NET, PhD	2.5 years	View
Ms. Pratibha Trivedi	M.A.,NET, SET	1 year	View

Staff Details

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ACTIVITIES (AY 2019-2020 to 2024-2025)

Students and staff of the department also visited ‘Vishwa Marathi Sammelan-2025’ on the premises of Fergusson College, Pune on 2^nd February 2025.
Under the aegis of ‘Vachan Sankalp Maharashtracha’, a book review was organised on 16^th January 2025 by the Dept. of English.
Students and staff of the department visited the Pune Book Festival on the premises of Fergusson College, Pune on 19^th December 2024.
A programme on ‘Ibsen in Grimstad’ was organised on 18^th December 2024 in the hybrid mode. The students were taken on a virtual guided tour of the Ibsen Museum in Norway by Ms. Anita Estensen, CEO of Grimstad Museums and Achieves, Norway.
Inaugural Lecture of the English Association by Mr. Jai Samota, writer and military historian, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan on 24^th August 2024.
An interactive session between UG and PG students and Mr Ganesh Lokhande, Director, Vcan Digital Solutions on 27^th Feb 2024.
The annual Lit-Fest organized on 29^th January 2024.
A one-day study tour to the historical village of Wai and included visits to the famous Phadnavis Wada at Menawali Ghat, Ganpati temple, the 18^th century Shiva temple and the Mapro factory on 31st January 2024.
Alumni Meet on 6^th January 2024.
Inaugural Lecture of the English Association on 13th September 2023. Prof R Raj Rao, eminent writer and former Head, Department of English, SPPU.
One- day trip to Wai (January 2023)
Lit-Fest for and by students, which included poster exhibition, quiz, elocution (January 2020, January 2023)
Online additional credit course organized by the Dept of English on Communicative English from March 2, 2022 to March 22, 2022. The course was free of cost and 85 students received certificates of credit on completion of the course.
Two online lectures as part of Industry-Academia Interaction held on 23rd December 2021.
National Conference ( 30^th and 31^st January 2020)
Alumni Meet ( 23rd Nov 2019 and 29th Feb 2020)
Motivational talk by Dr Amar Singh, Professor and Head, Govt. College, Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh. ( 14th Dec 2019)
MA students had a meeting with staff and students of Indian Institute of American Literature (May 2019)

English is offered as a major subject to BA students.
English is a compulsory subject for FYBSc (General), FYBSc (Computer Science), FYBSc (Computer Application) and FYBSc (Biotech) as an Ability Enhancement Course.
It is also offered to Science students as GE/OE subject.
Department of English has Post-graduate course in English.