P.G.Department of English

1.	Name of the University	:	Sambalpur University
2.	Name of the department	:	Post Graduate Department of English
3.	Year of establishment	:	1969
4.	Date of visit	:
5.	No. of students who applied and got admission in various courses in last 3 years	:	88+40= 128

Year	U.G.			P.G.			M.Phil.			Ph.D.
	Applied	Admitted	Applied		Admitted	Applied		Admitted	Applied		Admitted
2002-03			64		24	23		13	5		2
2003-04			57		24	15		11	5		2
2004-05			59		24+01(SF)	22		14	9		5
2005-06			75		24+05(SF)	13		13	10		6
2006-07			56		24+02(SF)	36		10	10		6
2007-08			96		24+09(SF)	31		15+02	9		5

* During the last 5 years the faculty has produced 10 PhD scholars.

6. When was the syllabus last revised by the Department? : PG: 2007

M.Phil. : 2007

7. Non-teaching staff:

Name	Designation	Pay scale	Qualification	Nature of duty
Dr.S.K.Panda	Research Asst.	Rs.6500-13, 000	M.A. Ph.D.	Research Asst.
Sri J. Panda	Clerk	Rs.5000-7500	Intermediate	Office/Administrative assistance
Sri S.N.Panda	Peon	Rs.2500-3200	Class VIII	Office assistance

8. Teaching Staff:

Name of the teacher	Designation	Qualification	Teaching load in clock hours per week	No. of research papers published in journals during X Plan
Name of the teacher	Designation	Qualification	Teaching load in clock hours per week	Interna-tional	National
Mr.R.S.Mishra	Professor & Head	M.A.M.Phil (East Anglia)	14	1	9
Dr.B.K.Tripathy	Professor	M.A., Ph.D.D.Litt.	15		4
Dr.R.S.Nanda	Professor	M.A.Ph.D.	15	6	3
Dr.Kalidas Misra	Professor	M.A.Ph.D.	15	3	4
Dr.(Mrs)Sabita Tripathy	Reader	M.A.Ph.D.	16		9
Dr.Ashok K.Mohapatra	Reader	M.A.Mphil. Ph.D.	16	3	7
Dr.(Miss)Aloka Patel	Lecturer	M.A.Ph.D.	18		1

Articles published by the teachers have been indexed in such publications like the MLA Bibliography, America: History and Life, Indian Literature, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Contemporary Thought, The Global South, Journal X: A Journal of Culture and Criticism, Facts on File.

Publication Details in Annexure I

9. Building:

Total area of the department (In Sq. Ft./ Sqm.): 8000 Sq. Ft.

Total laboratory area of the department (in sq. ft./ sqm.): 200 Sq.Ft.

10. Books and Journals:

No. of books on the subject in

National journals subscribed (Give Names)

International journals subscribed (Give Name)

Central library

Departmental library

10,000 approximately

2500

The Library has back volumes of Indian Literature, Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature,Literary Criterion, Seminar, Economic and Political Weekly.

In addition,

E-journals from the consortia, namely JSTOR, Project Muse, Taylor and Francis available through INFLIBNET Node available at the Central University Library

Wasafiri, Critical Practice, Social Text, Critical Quarterly, Shakespeare Quarterly, Comparative Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Ariel, PMLA, Journal of African-American Literature, Journal of New Literary History, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Public Culture,

In addition, E-journals from the consortia, namely JSTOR, Project Muse, Taylor and Francis available through INFLIBNET Node available at the Central University Library

11. Equipment: No such equipment available in the Department.

i.	Name of the equipments in the department worth Rs. One Lakh and Above along with the cost
ii.	Name s of the equipments purchased in the X plan worth Rs. One Lakh and Above
iii.	Percent utilization of equipment	100 % utilization of equipment.
iv.	Whether the equipment is also used by other departments/ colleges/ other outside agencies (Give Details)	Students are allowed to use the Computers, as and when necessary, with the guidance of the teachers.

12. Whether all teachers are provided room/ cubical and necessary furniture

Type of accommodation	Percentage of teachers provided such accommodation
Independent room/ cubical	75*
Room on twin sharing basis	1(One)
Room on sharing basis

* After the three vacant posts are filled up it may not be possible to provide independent rooms to the teachers.

13. Whether the department is identified by UGC as special assistance programme (SAP), Department Research support (DRS) Department of Special Assistance (DSA), Center if yes, since when and level:

The Department has applied to the UGC for SAP (DRS) this year.

14. Whether the department organized any national/ international conference seminar/ symposia / workshop etc. during X plan?

If yes, give details:

Details of Seminars, Conferences etc. Organized during the last Five Years

by Department of English, Sambalpur University

National Seminar- “ Teaching Shakespeare in India: New Contexts”- 24-25 March, 2003
National Seminar- “ Orientalism: Twenty-five Years After”- 10 December, 2003
National Workshop- “ Translation: Oriya- English- Oriya” – March 11-12, 2005
National Seminar on “Translating into English Post-Independence Bhasa Literature: Problems and Perspectives”, 24-25 March, 2006

5. National Seminar on “English Literary Studies in India and the Demands of Theory” from March 24-25,2007

National Seminar on “Gender Issues in Literary Studies in English and Indian Languages” on 22 and 23 February, 2008

Seven Refresher Courses from 2001 to 2007

First UGC Refresher Course

“English Studies in India: Perspectives and Challenges”, 12 September-9 October, 2001, Co-ordinator- Prof. R.S. Mishra

Second UGC Refresher Course

“ New Directions in English Studies”, 30 July- 19, August 2002, Co-ordinator- Professor B.K.Tripathy

Third UGC Refresher Course

“ Paradigms and Practices of Teaching English in India at the +3 and the Post-Graduate Levels”, 6 November- 1 Decmber, 2003. Co-Ordinator- Prof. Kalidas Misra

Fourth UGC Refresher Course

“ Postcolonial Perspectives and Practices in English Studies”, 29 September- 19 October, 2004, Co-Ordinator- Dr Ashok K Mohapatra

Fifth UGC Refresher Course

“British Romanticism and Indian Literature”, 18 August 2005 to 7 September 2005

Co-ordinator- Prof. Kalidas Misra.

Sixth UGC Refresher Course

“Indian Literature in English and Other Regional Languages”, 6 November 2006 to 26 November 2006.

Co-ordinator: Professor R.S.Mishra

Seventh UGC Refresher Course

“Novelistic Discourse”, 6 March 2008 to 26 March 2008

Co-ordinator: Dr. (Mrs.) Sabita Tripathy

15. Whether the department organized any training programme for industry/ community etc. during X plan? If yes, give details.

Teachers of the Department offered courses on effective communication in the Executive Training Program of the Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd at Sambalpur headquarters.

16. Whether the department has undertaken any consultancy work during X plan?

If yes, give details

Teachers of the Department offered training in communicative skill to teachers under the Biju Pattanaik University of Technology held at Bhubaneswar.

Dr R.S. Nanda and Dr Ashok K. Mohapatra, were trained in Global Skills under Project Genesis by INFOSYS, from 23 July to 4 August, 2007.

17. Whether any research projects has been undertaken in the last five years.

If yes, give details.

Name of the teacher	Title of the project	Duration	Funding agency	Amount
Professor R.S.Mishra	Translation of Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Chha Mana Atha Guntha		University of California Press, Berkeley,USA
Professor Kalidas Misra	Translation of the poems of Bhima Bhoi		German Research Council, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Dr.Ashok K. Mohapatra	Editing a volume of Global South, an international journal; also editing for Macmillan (India) George Eliot’s Adam Bede		College of Liberal Arts, University of Mississippi, USA
Dr. Sabita Tripathy	Dominance of Gynocentric Consciousness over Phallocentrism irrespective of Race and Culture In Aurobindo’s Plays		U.G.C	Rs. 15,000

* The teachers of the Department are engaged in independent research work with the help of such centers like the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, American Centre Library, Kolkota, the British Council Library, Kolkata, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi,Indian Association of Canadian Studies,Vadodara, Biju Pattanaik University of Technology, Orissa and the English Language Training Institute, Bhubaneswar.

18. Whether the department received any grants from various schemes of the UGC?

If yes, give details:

All our national seminars have been conducted with the help from the UGC unassigned grant. The Department has also received grants from the UGC to upgrade the Computer Unit of the Department. At present the Department has three desktops, one laptop, one fax machine, one photocopier, one multifunction printer, three laser printers, one public address system, one scanner, one LCD projector and one overhead projector.

19. Whether any financial assistance was received from sources other than UGC?

None

20. What are the essential facilities the department needs during XI plan? Please give justification. (Separate sheet attached as Annexure-II for establishment of Centre for Translation studies under the New Schemes during XI Plan Period of the UGC)

21. Whether the university is using new teaching methods like, instructional television, instructional radio, computer-aided instruction, programmed teaching, team teaching etc.? Please give details.

The department has introduced a separate course on “Computer Application in Literary Studies” for M.A. students. The teachers take the help of computer-aided instructions, whenever necessary.

22. Any special contribution of the department:

Students are provided with resources from various online journals,

Photocopies of books and journals from the Reprographic Unit of the Department.

Weekly students Seminars for M.A and M.Phil students are conducted on a regular basis.

UGC Visiting fellows, namely Prof. O.P. Grewal, Prof. B.S. Pathania and

Indian and Overseas guests like the following have been invited to offer courses and lectures in the Department.

i. Prof Sheila Cavanagh (Emory)

ii. Paul St Pierre (Quebec)

iii Prof K. N. Chandran(Hyderabad)

iv. Prof. P.C. Kar (Baroda)

v. Prof. P.P. Raveendran (Kottayam)

vi. Prof.K.Sachidanandan,Secretary,Sahitya Akademi

vii. Prof. Vasavraj Naiker, Karnataka University, Dharvad

viii. Prof. J.N. Pattnaik, Bhubaneswar

ix. Prof. N.Krishnaswamy, CIEFL,Hyderabad

Students are given opportunity to have to access multi-media resources as part of their curriculum.

Some of the members of Faculty have been working in collaboration with international academics and institutions in areas of their respective research. Sometimes they serve as members of expert committees in such institutions as the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, Biju Pattanaik University of Technology, Orissa, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, University College of Engineering, Burla, Ravenshaw(Deemed) University, Cuttack,Berhampur University,Bhanja Vihar, F.M.University, Balasore ,Utkal University of Culture, Bhubaneswar and Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar.

The Department is the only one of its kind in Orissa to offer a full-fledged paper in the M.A. Syllabus titled “ Computer Applications in Literary Studies”.

The teachers of the Department are actively engaged in disinterested research studies and other ancillary academic and literary activities.

Details are as follows:

(i) National organizations - Association of Professor R.S.Mishra with the Jury for Jnanpith Award, and selection of Entries for Sahitya Akademi Award

Training imparted by faculty, Prof. Bijay K. Tripathy and Dr A.K. Mohapatra, in the areas of ELT and Soft Skills to BPUT teachers and Executives of Coal India (Mahanadi Coal Fields).

Dr.Sabita Tripathy is a member of the Advisory committee of Sarbashikshya Abhijan, Govt. of Orissa.

(ii) Non-Government Organizations/Academic Bodies- Professor B.K.Tripathy is a member of the National Task Force, Rotary International for the Pulse Polio Programme.

(iii)International Organizations/Academics -

Prof. R.S. Mishra collaborated with Prof Satya P. Mohanty of Cornell University, USA, on a translation of Fakir Mohan Senapati.

Prof. Kalidas Misra has been a member of the Orissa Research Project of German Research Council of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, collaborating with Prof. Bettina Baumer, Prof. Johannes Beltz and others to translate into English the poems of Bhima Bhoi, a religious poet of 19^th century Orissa.

Prof. Kalidas Misra was a member of the Expert Committee Meeting for the proposed P.G.Diploma Course in Book Publishing organized by the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi on January15-16, 2007.

Prof. Misra also participated as a member of the Expert Committee to prepare a Course for the proposed School of Folklore and Culture Studies for the IGNOU, New Delhi. He was also a member of the expert committee to prepare a syllabus for the proposed School of Culture and Folklore Studies, IGNOU, New Delhi.

Dr. Ashok K.Mohapatra has been co-edited with Prof. Alfred Lopez of Purdue University, USA, a volume of The Global South, forthcoming in May 2008 by Indiana University Press, USA.

(iv) Other Institutions – Two member of faculty namely Dr R.S. Nanda and Dr Ashok K. Mohapatra, were trained in Global Skills under Project Genesis by INFOSYS, from 23 July to 4 August 2007

Achievements of the students:

Students of the Department have been very active in participating in various literary and cultural activities of the University. We mention below the achievements of some students during the past few years:

Miss Punyotaya Sharma of M.A. (I Semester) was awarded the First Prize in the Chancellor’s Debate Competition organized by Sambalpur University.

Miss Sailabala Bajpei of M.A. (IV Semester) participated in the National Youth Festival, Chennai 2007 and had the distinction of representing the N.S.S. in the SAARC Youth Camp at Chennai.

Sanjiv Kumar Munda, an M.Phil student of the Department has received the Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship in 2008 to work on his M.Phil project on “The theme of exile in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.”

Many of the students have joined different colleges as teachers; apart from that, some students have joined various other organizations. To name a few:

Miss Sudhashree Dash of the Department has the ETV as a reporter /journalist.

Miss Ritu Rao,Miss Nivedita Mishra,Devendra Singh Deo have joined different software companies .

Miss Smrutisikta Mishra, Miss Suchismita Guru, Prakash Kumar Patel, Miss Mohar Sarkhel, Prakask Kumar Panda, Mrs. Sulohita Purohit, Miss Damayanti Khamari, Miss Monalisa Pattanaik have joined as Lecturers in different colleges under BPUT.

Book

1. Misra, Kalidas et al. (forthcoming) “Translation from Bhima Bhoi,” in Johannes Beltz and Bettina Baumer (eds.), Verses from the Void: Poems of Bhima Bhoi New Delhi: Monohar.

2. Tripathy, B.K. 2007. Practical English Grammar (2nd Edn.). Delhi: Kalyani Publishers, 2002, 3^rd Edition published in 2007 (pp.296).

3. Mishra, R.S. 2005. Tika O Tippani (Oriya), Bargarh.

4. Mishra, R.S. 2005. Six Acres and a Third (translation of Fakirmohan Senapati’s Oriya novel Chhamana Atahguntha, USA: California University Press.

5. Mishra, R.S. 2006. Six Acres and a Third, re-published by New Delhi: Penguin India.

6. Nanda, R.S. and R.S. Mishra. 2003. Window on the World. Kolkata: MacMillan.

7. Tripathy, Sabita. 2002. A Critical Response to Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers.

8. Tripathy, Sabita. 2002. Katha Sahityare Samajika Angikarabaddha (Oriya). Bhubaneswar: Apurva Prakashan.

Paper

9. Misra, Kalidas. 2008. “Translation from Bhima Bhoi,” in Johannes Beltz and Ishita Banerjee Dubey (eds.), Popular Religion and Ascetic Practices: New Essays on Mahima Dharma. New Delhi: Monohar.

10. Mohapatra, A.K. 2008. Chhamana Athagunthare Nari O Nari-Purusha Samajika Samparka,” (Oriya Translation), Jhankara, 59 (10): 1152-59.

11. Mishra. R.S. 2007. “Chittaranjan Dasanka Oriya Sahityara Itihas”. Sambad, October.

12. Nanda, R.S. 2007. ”Ben Okri,” in Maunder (ed.), Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction. New York: Facts on File.

13. Nanda, R.S. 2007. “Salman Rushdie,” in Maunder (ed.), Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction. New York: Facts on File.

14. Nanda, R.S. 2007. “The Prophet’s Hair,” in Maunder (ed.), Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction. New York: Facts on File.

15. Nanda, R.S. 2007. “Frantz Fanon and the New Global Order,” (pp.97-105) in J. Tripathy (ed.), After Globalization: Essays in Religion, Culture and Identity. New Delhi: Allied.

16. Mohapatra, Ashok K. 2007. “Translated from the Bengali by Joe Winter,” The Book Review of India, 31 (1): 35-36.

17. Mohapatra, Ashok K. 2007. “India in a Global Age, or Neo-liberal Epiphany,” The Global South, 2. (1): 1-11. (Spring), 2008 (Indiana University Press Journal, USA).

18. Tripathy, Sabita. 2007. “Diaspora, Displacement and the Deprived in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason,” published in Basavadutta Naiker (ed.), Indian English Literature, VII: 149-73.

19. Tripathy, Sabita. 2007. “Colonial Encounter and Racial Discriminationin Mulk Raj Anand,s Two Leaves and a Bud and Bankimchandra”s Anand Math,” (pp.177-90) in N. Sahu (ed.), The Postcolonial Space: Writing the Self and The Nation. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers.

20. Tripathy, Sabita. 2007. “Sri Aurobindo’s Literary Crusede for Patriotic Encounter,” The Atlantic Critical Review, 6: 69-92.

21. Mishra. R.S. 2006. “Utkala Sahityara Itihasa: Eka Drustipata”(Oriya), Sambada, (Special Issue), October.

22. Nanda, R.S. 2006. “Mr Sammler’s Planet,” in Abby Werlock (ed.), Companion to Modern American Novel. New York: Facts on File.

23. Nanda, R.S. 2006. “Midnight’s Children and Life on the Fringes,” in Anita Parihar et al. (eds.), Marginal Existence: New Trends in Literature. New Delhi: Creative Books.

24. Misra, Kalidas. 2006. “Between the Alps and the Himalayas: Mulk Raj Anand In Our Time,” (pp.171-74) in Pranati Dutta Gupta and Sushmita Ray (eds.), Indian Writing in English: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Kolkata: Vivekananda College.

25. Misra, Kalidas. 2006. “The Little Deer from Austria: Elfried Jenilek,” in Nobel Prize Seminar Booklet. Dept of Chemistry, Sambalpur University Nobel Prize Seminar.

26. Tripathy, Sabita. 2006. “Memory as a Mode of Poetic Exploration in William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey,” (pp.225-233) in P.K Patra (ed.), Recritiquing William Wordworth. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons.

27. Tripathy, Sabita. 2006. “Probmematisation of Home and Identity in the Plays of Harold Pinter,” (pp.6-10) Dept. of Chemistry, Nobel Prize Seminar Booklet.

28. Mohapatra, Ashok K. 2006. “The Paradox of Return: Origins, Home and Identity in M.G.Vassanji’s The Gunny Sack,” Postcolonial Text, 2 (4): 1-21. (E-journal, Canada).

29. Mohapatra, Ashok K. 2006. “Allegorizing the Nation with the Body: An Element of Resistance in Sahuna Singh Baldwin,” Haritham, 18: 64-72.

30. Mishra. R.S. and Ashok K. Mohapatra. 2005. “Oriya Translation of S.P. Mohanty’s Introduction to Six Acres and a Third,” Jahnkara, 1053-59.

31. Nanda, R.S. 2005. “Out of Africa,” in Jo Malin (ed.), Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography. Greenwood Publishers, USA.

32. Misra, Kalidas. 2005. “Writing a Narrative and a Self in Silence: reading the Fiction of Sashi Deshpande,” (pp.72-81) in C Naik (ed.), Writing Difference: The Fiction of Sashi Deshpande. Delhi: Pencraft International.

33. Tripathy, Sabita. 2005. “Imre Kersetz: A Survivor of the Barbaric Arbitrariness of History,” Setu, 7: 11-14.

34. Tripathy, Sabita. 2005. “Shock, Derision and Satire in V.S. Naipaul’s An Area of Darkness,” (pp.77-89) M.K.Ray (ed.), V.S. Naipaul: Critical Essays. New Delhi: Atlantic Publication.

35. Mohapatra, Ashok K. 2005. “The Crows” (translation of K.K.Mohapatra’s Oriya short story), (pp.242-69) in J. Gupta and N. Chatterjee (eds.), Muffled Hearts, Calcutta: Rupa & Co.

36. Mishra. R.S. 2004. “Mansinghnka Oriya Sahityara Itihas”(Oriya), Istahar,

37. Misra, Kalidas. 2004. “Beyond the Lily and Snow: John Keats and the Poetry of Ethical Knowledge,” (pp.101-20) in Sura P. Ratha and K. Baral and V. Rao (eds.), Reflections on Literature, Culture and Theory. Delhi: Pencraft International.

38. Mishra. R.S. 2003-04. “Hunter’s Catalogue of Oriya Writers”, Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature. 41,

39. Tripathy B.K. 2004. “ Narrative technique of Raja Rao in Kanthapura. Sambalpur Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2:

40. Nanda, R.S. 2004. Aspects of Imperial History in Maud Diver’s Far to Seek,” Ravenshaw Journal of English Studies, 14 (1&2):

41. Mohapatra, Ashok K. 2004. “Nature and Politics of Representation: A Reading of Srah Orne Jewitt’s The Country of the Pointed Firs,” (pp.106-190) in Mohit K Ray (ed.), Studies in Literature in English. New Delhi: Atlantic.

42. Mohapatra, Ashok K. 2004. “Edward said and William Jones: Negotiating between Orientalism and Asiaticism,” Journal X: A Journal in Culture and Criticism (University of Mississippi, USA), 8 (2): 151-63

43. Mishra. R.S. 2003. Using an Oriya Shakespeare in English Classroom”, Sambalpur University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2,

44. Tripathy B.K. 2003. “ Sentence Patterns in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India”, Sambalpur Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1: 25-31.

45. Misra, Kalidas. 2003. “The World Beyond Book: Theory at the End of the Millennium”, (pp.258-68) in Sura P. Rath, Venkat Rao & Kailash C. Baral (eds.), Theory and Praxis: Curriculum, Culture and English Studies, Delhi: Pencraft International.

46. Misra, Kalidas. 2003. “The Path on the Rainbow: Rediscovering the Native North American Cultural Tradition,” in M Dasan (ed.), Beyond Resistance: Critical Essays on Canadian First Nations Writing. Calicut: University of Calicut.

47. Misra, Kalidas. 2003. “The Life and Times of J.M. Coetze,” (pp.29-34) in Nobel Prize Seminar Booklet. Dept. of Chemistry, Sambalpur University Nobel Prize Seminar.

48. Tripathy, Sabita. 2003. “Metamorphosis of Indira Goswami’s Creative Angst,” Sambalpur Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2: 33-36.

49. Mohapatra, Ashok K. 2003. “Allegory of the Nation and Crisis of Finance Capital: Interpreting Mary Poppins,” Sambalpur Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2: 13-21.

50. Patel, Aloka. 2003. “Black Women Writers in the Indian English Classroom,” Sambalpur Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2: 22-28.

51. Mishra. R.S. 2002. “Odiya Atma Parichiti,” (Oriya), Esana,

52. Mishra. R.S. 2002. “The Languages of Power and the Silences of a Woman: Chhmana Athaguntha,” Meenakshi Mukherjee (ed.), Early Novels in India. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi.

53. Tripathy, Sabita. 2002. “Old Order Changeth: Social Morality in God of Small Things,” (pp210-24) in B. Naiker (ed.), Indian English Literature. Vol-III. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers.