Research Activities
The Department has been involved in research activities related to Literary Theory, Indian English Literature, Indian Literatures in English Translation, Translation Studies, Gender Studies, and Applied Linguistics including English Language Teaching.
Teachers in the Department have completed four major and minor projects funded by the UGC, New Delhi:
- Dr JH Khan, ‘The Testing of English at the Collegiate and University Levels in Gujarat’ (Minor Research Project): 1985-87.
- Dr JH Khan, ‘Designing Courses and Materials for the Teaching of Compulsory English at the Undergraduate Level in Gujarat’ (Minor Research Project): 1990-92.
- Dr DS Mishra, ‘Dynamics of Social Change in Post-1970 Novels in Indian Languages (Western-region)’ (Major Research Project): 2001-04.
- Mr PB Raval, ‘Negotiating Identities: Globalisation, Culture, and History’ (Minor Research Project): 2009-11.
- Dr PJ Dave, ‘Michael Ondaatje as a Postmodernist and Diasporic writer under the scheme of Seed- Grant Project’, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar (2011-12).
Current Thrust Areas
Gender Studies; New Literatures in English; Western and Oriental Literary Theories; Literature, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis; Indian Literatures in English and in English Translation; and English Language Teaching, Philosophy of Aesthetics, Postcolonial Literature, Modern and Postmodern English Literature, Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures, Adaptation of English Literature, Integration of ICT in education, are our current thrust areas
Two Phases of the UGC SAP-DRS
Phase-I (1 April 2004 to 31 March 2009): (a) Literary Representation of Community, Culture and Ideology; and (b) Literary Representation of Post 1970 Representative Literature in Gujarati, Hindi, and Indian English Literatures
Phase-II (1 April 2009 to 31 March 2014): (a) Literary Representation of Social Change; and (b) Literary Representation of Social Change in Post 1970 Representative Novels and Plays in Gujarati, Hindi, and Indian English Literatures