UG Programme

• B A English Language and Literature
• B A English (Model II – Vocational – Journalism)

PG Programme

• M A English Language and Literature

Doctoral Programme

• Ph.D. in English

Add-on Course

• Learn English Through Films
• Explore the World of Media With Experts

• The Shakespeare Theatre

  The Shakespeare Theatre is one of the unique features of our Department. It was started in 1937 with the performance of Macbeth under the direction of the then Head of the Department and pioneering Malayalam critic Prof M P Paul. Since then the theatre has been presenting full length productions of Shakespeare plays more or less regularly. We have had twenty one productions so far.

  Year	Play	Director(s)
  1937	Macbeth	Prof M P Paul
  1947	Macbeth	Prof M P Paul
  1951	The Merchant of Venice	Prof C A Sheppard
  1952	The Merchant of Venice	Prof K J Francis
  1952	King Lear	Prof C A Sheppard
  1953	Hamlet	Prof C A Sheppard
  1961	King Lear	Prof C A Sheppard
  1964	Othello	Prof A E Augustine
  1965	Othello	Prof A E Augustine
  1969	Macbeth	Prof A E Agustine and Prof K J John
  1971	Macbeth	Prof A E Agustine and Prof K J John
  1983	The Merchant of Venice	Prof A E Agustine
  1986	Macbeth	Prof K V Joseph and Prof C C Thomas
  1989	Julius Caesar	Prof K V Joseph
  1991	Othello	Prof K V Joseph
  1994	Romeo and Juliet	Prof C C Thomas
  1997	Antony and Cleopatra	Prof C C Thomas
  1999	Hamlet	Prof C C Thomas
  2007	Macbeth	Mr Gigy Joseph
  2011	The Tempest	Dr Gigy Joseph
  2018	Henry IV Part I	Dr Vimal Mohan John

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• Modern Theatre

  On 15 February 2018, the long cherished dream of a fully-fledged modern theatre, similar to the Shakespeare Theatre of the college, finally came to fruition. The occasion was the golden jubilee celebration of the postgraduate program in English, which was a significant milestone for the college. Dr Sabu Joseph, during his headship, initiated the establishment of the modern theatre. The first production showcased in the modern theatre was T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, directed by Nithin Varghese.

  Year	Play	Director(s)
  2018	Murder in the Cathedral	Nithin Varghese

• The Department Library

• Burning Cauldron-The English Debate Club

• The English Association

  The English Association is active in organizing a variety of programmes intended to develop the talents of the students.

• XpressionZ: Annual Inter-collegiate Literary Fest

• Prof C A Sheppard Memorial Lecture

  Sl No	Year	Speaker	Title
  1	1988	Dr U R Ananthamoorthy	W B Yeats’ Poetry
  2	1989	Prof Narayanan Nambiar	The Tempest
  3	1990	Rev Dr C A Abraham	The Theme of Love in Shakespeare
  4	1991	Prof G Kumara Pillai	G M Hopkins’ Poetry
  5	1992	Prof K M Chandy	English Studies in India
  6	1993	Prof Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri	The Irish Voice of W B Yeats
  7	1994	Prof A E Augustine	A Sense of English
  8	1995	Rev Dr Ninan Tharakan	Writing Poetry in English: A Writer’s Perspective
  9	1996	Dr C P Sivadasan	Trends in Modern Criticism
  10	1997	Dr R Viswanathan	Modern Trends in American Drama
  11	1998	Dr James A Brigham	Bringing Home the Ashes: An Introduction to Lawrence Durrell
  12	1999	Prof C Thomas Abraham	T S Eliot’s Social Vision
  13	2000	Dr Jacob George	Hamlet: Spatial Structure and Theme
  14	2001	Dr Abraham Karickom	Indian Aesthetics
  15	2002	Dr K Ayyappa Panicker	Eastern Aesthetics
  16	2003	Prof T R S Iyer	Word and Meaning: Eastern and Western Perspectives
  17	2004	Dr K Narayan Chandran	English in India: Its Social Life
  18	2005	Dr A Joseph Dorairaj	The Death of the Author: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives
  19	2006	Dr M S Nagarajan	Feminist Literary Theories
  20	2007	Most Rev Dr Yakob Mar Irenaios	English Language Teaching in India: Purposes and Paradoxes
  21	2008	Dr Scaria Zacharia	Literary Studies  Today: New Paradigms
  22	2009	Dr Prafulla C Kar	New Contexts of Modernity
  23	2010	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	Speaking for the Humanities
  24	2011	Dr P P Raveendran	World Literature: Concept and Concerns
  25	2012	Akeel Bilgrami	Romanticism, Philosophy and Politics
  26	2013	Arjun Appadurai	Cinematic Dreams and the Politics of the Real in Contemporary India
  27	2014	David Bromwich	The Romantic Sublime
  28	2015	Richard Schechner	Deconstructing Texts in the Performance Work of Richard Schechner
  29	2016	Nissim Mannathukkaren	Being Modern in 21st Century in Kerala
  30	2020	Laura Mulvey	Layering Film and Layering Time: Recovering Women’s Stories of Marginalization and Loss
  31	2020	Toril Moi	Wittgenstein and Literary Criticism: A New Direction in Literary Studies
  32	2021	Prof Homi K Bhabha	Humanities in the Time of the Pandemic
  33	2021	Prof Stanley Fish	Speaking in Code: Why Textualism is a Non-Starter
  34	2021	Noam Chomsky	Reflections on Language and Thought
  35	2022	Prof Dipesh Chakrabarty,	Planetarity, an aspect of  being human today

• Prof George Thomas Memorial Media Seminar

  2018	The Role of Investigative Journalism in Malayalam Visual Media
  	Mr Joshy Kurian (Media Professional, Asianet News Network)
  	Public Relations and Advertising in Contemporary India
  	Mr Govindapillai Sreekumar, Former Public Relations Officer,
  	Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
  	Contemporary Malayalam Print Journalism and Its Political Perspectives
  	Dr Paul Manalil (Former Director, Kerala State Institute of Children’s Literature
  	and Former Assistant Editor, Malayala Manorama)
  2017	Democratic Values and Mass Media
  	Mr Sunnykutty Abraham (Journalist, Writer, Political Analyst)
  	Media Culture in Kerala: Challenges and Opportunities
  	Mr M G Radhakrishnan (Editor-in-chief, Asianet News)

• Prof. K T Sebastian Scholar in Residence Programme
  1. 2020: Prof Akeel Bilgrami (Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy Columbia University, New York)
  2. 2021: Prof Jacqueline Rose (Professor of Humanities and Co-Director, Birkbeck Institute of Humanities)
  3. 2022: Prof Dipesh Chakrabarty (Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, University of Chicago)

• Identity, Marginality and the People : Reflections on Heidegger and Politics | Dr. Adam Knowles

• The Problem of Identity Poetics | Dr. David mason

• Literature from Below: Dalit Literary Cultures of South India and Kerala | Dr. Ajay S Sekher

• Rasa and Dhvani in Indian Poetics : Some Reflections | Mr. Nithin Varghese

• Disability Social Inequality and Structural Injustice | Jonathan Wolff

• Contemplating Ecoprecarity during the Coronavirus Pandemic: The Convergence of the medical Humanities and Ecocriticism | Scott Slovic

• Literature and Animal Studies| Laura Wright

• Reflections on a Feminist- vegan Critical Theory |carol J Adams

• Literary Theory and Musical Thinking | Prof. Christopher Norris

• On Continent Aflame | Prof. Raimond Gaita

• Realisms and Modernities | Dr. Sophie Vlacos

• Breaking silence on transphobia together: resisting supporting and healing | Ms. Kalki Subramaniam

• Emerging Areas of Research in the 21st Century | Sanil V | International Workshop on Research in the Humanities in Twenty First Century

• Head in the clouds | Esther Leslie

• Prof Jonathan Culler | Keats 's Lyric Poetry | Bicentenary Lecture 2

• Prof David Bromwich | "John Keats (1821-2021):Remarks and a Reading" |Bicentenary Lecture I

• 32nd C A Sheppard Memorial Lecture 2021 | Prof Homi K Bhabha |Humanities in the Time of Pandemic

• Postcolonial Theory Today | Bill Ashcroft

• Derrida and Deconstruction | Christopher Norris | Session 1

• Derrida and Deconstruction | Christopher Norris | Session 2

• Ecocriticism in the time of Covid 19 | Scott Solvic

• Trauma, Language and Survival | Cathy Caruth

• Postcolonial Theory Today | Bill Ashcroft

• Derrida and Deconstruction | Christopher Norris | Session 4

• Derrida and Deconstruction | Christopher Norris | Session 3

• Prof Akeel Bilgrami | Art and The Secular | SB College | Department Of English

• Kant and Critical Philosophy | Prof. Sanil V

• Prof Akeel Bilgrami | Nature, Value and Politics | SB College | Department of English

• Prof K T Sebastian Scholar in Residence Programme Inauguration and Remembering Prof K T Sebastian

• Hermeneutics | Prof. Joseph A Dorairaj

• Counter-Enlightenment | Dr.Bina Gogineni

• Phenomenology | Dr. Robin E J

• Classical Philosophy | Dr. Thomas Padiyath

• Deconstruction | Dr. Gasper Albey

• Philosophy and Theory

• Laura Mulvey | C A Sheppard Memorial Lecture | Department of English | ST Berchmans College

• International seminar on cinema | Dr C S Jayaram

• Free and Unfree, The State of Media in India Today | Siddharth Varadarajan