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With the establishment of Chilarai College in 1973 English as a compulsory subject was offered both as UG and Higher Secondary level . The department with two fulltime faculty teachers along with three part time teachers ventured to offer major courses in English in the year 1997. Since then major courses in English have been running on a regular basis in the College. The two fulltime teachers of the department have successfully completed their Ph. D works and have produced substantial research papers both in National and International forums. They have also made noteworthy publications as a follow up measures of their respective doctoral works. The teachers of the department are closely associated with several National and Regional academic bodies, such as IACIS, Hyderabad, AIETA, New Delhi, FTC, Baroda, North-East Writers Forum, Guwahati. The department is well equipped with a separate chamber, department library with 30 to 40 useful reference books and few journals and a separate major class room with basic amenities. The department has the plan to have a Language Laboratory of its own in the near future so that, that facility can be used to offer courses on Spoken English and to strengthen the over all English Speaking competence of general students of our College. |
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Dr. Bharat Bhusan Mohanty M. A,
Ph. D. Department of English Chilarai College Phone: 03662-287286 e-mail: bb_mohanty@yahoo.com |
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Qualification |
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| Dr. Jyotirmoy Prodhani (on lien) |
M. A., Ph. D |
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| Kongkon Ch. Roy |
M. A. |
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| Total No. of Students | ||||||
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Session 2007 - 08 |
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HS 1st Year |
200 | TDC Part-I | 182(G) | 6(M) | ||
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HS 2nd Year |
142 | TDC Part-II | 93(G) | 1(M) | ||
| TDC Part-III | 1(M) | |||||
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The students are offered English as major subject in Degree level for which student must get 45% in English in the Higher Secondary level. |
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Books |
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Madhupur Bahudur, An Oriya Translation of Kendra Sahitya Academy Award Winning Assamese Short Story Collection. Sahitya Akademi. New Delhi, 2000. Godhuli, An Oriya Translation of Assamese Fiction. NBTI, New Delhi, 2000. Jane Sadharana Kisorare Diary. An Oriya Translation of an Assamese Diary. Mahanadi Books. Cuttack. Orissa, 1991. Edward W. Said's Orientalism: A Critique Rawat Publication, Jaipur 2005. |
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Articles and Papers |
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'Chauvinistic Ideology', Books Review, University News AIU House, New Delhi, Jan 27th 1997. Writing a Text: A Study of Roland Barthes Interpretation of Text Chilarai College Annual Journal, 1995, Golakganj. "Reading Culture through Folklore: A Study of an Oriya Folktale and an Assamese Folktale." Voice, 2004 Literary Forum of B. N. College, Dhubri. "A deeper Meaning" The Assam Tribune, April, 16/2004. "Writing a Text: A Study of Roland Bathes's Interpretation of Text" Alochani, CRC, 1995 "American Indian Poetry and the Shaping of the Subversive Text" Alochani, CRC. 1998. "Abarta", Books Review Chilarian, CRC, 2000. "Textual Approach and Learning Language" Alochani, CRC, 1996. "The Story of a Horse Egg" and "The Legend of Princess Padmavati and King Purusottam". English Translation from a Collection of Oriya Folktales Chilarian, CRC, 2003. "Rehabilitation Packages for American Indians during the Jeffersonian Era and Cultural Dislocation: A Study", Journal of Literary Review The Department if English, Bijni College,2004. "Sri Sankardeva in Orissa", Vaikutha-Behar. 74th Conference of Srimanta Sankardeva Sangha, Feb/2005 "Dealing with Motherhood : A Study of Shauna Singh Baldwin's 'Naina' and Indira Goswami's 'The Offspring' Critical Responses to Feminism. Ed. Binod Mishra Sarup & Sons, New Delhi |
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"Transculatural Dialogue and Contemporary Canadian Poetry: A Study of Ethnic Narrativity with specific reference to the Poems of Margaret Attawodd, Irving Layton, Roo Borson" International Seminar(Indo-Canadian) at the University of Rajasthan, Dec/1996. "Said : The Eternal Traveller" International Conference at the University of Rajasthan (FCT) 2003 "Said's Foucauldian Connection: A Response to Aijaz Ahmed's Observations on Orientalism" National Conference (IAES) at the Meerut University, 2003. "The Ideology of Expatriation and the Formation of Resistance Discourse: Locating Subject Positions in the poems of Irving Layton (Canada) and Mahmud Darwish (Palestine)" Presented at ASC, Univ. of Rajasthan, Dec/1996. "The Other Ways of Telling Beyond Dialectics and Confrontation: Orientalism's Other Self" 49th All India English Teachers' Conference (AIES) at Feroze Gandhi College. Rae Bareli. |
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Seminars |
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Jan 12/1998. Silver Jublee Seminar on 'Rewriting History of Nara Narayan and Chilarai in Dominat Discourse of History'. Chilarai College, Golakganj, Assam. (As a resource Person). 23 Nov/1997. UGC Sponsered Seminar on 'English Translation of Assamese Literature'. Bilasipara College. Assam (As a Resource Person). 21 Nov/1994 to 26 Nov/1994. Presented a paper in a National Level Research Seminar and Workshop on 'Interpretation of Literary Text'. Deptt. of English, Gauhati University, Guwahati. 6 Dec/1996 to 8 Dec/1996. Presented a paper in an International Seminar on 'Expatriate Writing: Theory and Practice: The Indo-Canadian Experience'. Academic Staff College, University of Rajastan, Jaipur, India. 15 Dec/1996 to16 Dec/1996. Participated in a National Level Seminar on 'Expatriate Perspectives in American Literature'. Jointly Organized by Deptt. of English, Univ. of Rajasthan and Academic Staff College, Univ. Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. |
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Conference |
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29 Dec/1993 to 31 Dec/1993 :
Participated in the 41st All India English Teachers' Conference Osmania
University, Hydrabad, India Paper accepted for Presentation at the NELLE Conference in Zaragoza, Spain from Sept. 19 - 22 in the year 1996. Paper accepted for Presentation at the 47th AIETC at the Lucknow University, Lucknow from 27th - 29th Dec. 2002 Paper presented at the sixth International Conference of Forum of Contemporary Thought. Baroda at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur from 14 to 17 December 2003 Presented paper in the 48th All India English Teachers' Conference at Choudhury Charan Singh University, Meerut from 19 - 21 Dec. 2003 Presented paper in the 49th IAES Conference at the Feroze Gandhi College, Rae Bareli from 28 - 30 Jan. 2005 Presented paper in the 50th All India English Teachers' Conference at Lucknow University from 13 - 16 Jan. 2006 Presented paper in the 51st All India English Teachers' Conference at the Shivaji University, Kolhapur from 27 - 29 Dec. 2006 |
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Workshop |
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14th to 15th Dec/1996. Attended the XXI Research Guide Workshop on American Studies. Organised by American Studies Research Centre (ASRC), Hydrabad and Department of English, Univ. of Rajasthan, Jaipur India. A Three Weeks long Research Project on 'American Indian Poetry and the Problem of Representation' in Dec/1995 at the American Studies Research Centre (ASRC), Hydrabad, India. |
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