{"id":1544,"date":"2024-08-02T04:55:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T04:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.dbuniversity.ac.in\/dept-of-english\/?page_id=1544"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:55:41","slug":"aboutus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.dbuniversity.ac.in\/dept-of-english\/aboutus\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1544\" class=\"elementor elementor-1544\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-977965a space e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"977965a\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0a1a68c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0a1a68c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7876c8a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7876c8a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About Us<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36c00fca e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"36c00fca\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1af36247 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1af36247\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-108e6967 elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"108e6967\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About the Department<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68d96212 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"68d96212\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Department of English was launched in February 2013 with the first batch of PhD students being admitted in the Department.<\/p><p>The year 2017 saw the launching of Bachelor of Arts with honours in English and the first batch of students started their class on 18th August 2017.<\/p><p>The department in order to lay the foundation of the modern trends in Literature has come up with a\u00a0<b>Literary Club.<\/b>\u00a0The club activity mainly involves creative writing, presentation and discussion, for both Faculty and Students, based directly or indirectly from the curriculum, interdisciplinary subjects and upon the existing and emerging trends in the field of Literature and Language. The aim is to develop a research based thought process to keep abreast with the latest in the field.<\/p><p>The department also organises\u00a0<b>Workshops, Art and Literary Competitions and Movie Evenings\u00a0<\/b>to enlarge the cognitive and comprehensive abilities of the students.<\/p><p>The department has been supportively participatory in\u00a0<b>the Literacy Programmes<\/b>\u00a0organised by the Department of Social Works in one of the many\u00a0<b>Community Outreach<\/b>\u00a0schemes. The classes of\u00a0<b>Elementary English<\/b>\u00a0were conducted in the\u00a0<b>Summer School\u00a0<\/b>for the students of grades 9th and 10th from the schools of the neighbouring villages, in July 2017. The Department also spearheading remedial classes for students from various department and teaches them Functional English.<\/p><p>Hence, The Department of Language Studies with time and passage would continue to deliver on the model of the University and the University-Community Development strategy.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d4aa65a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7d4aa65a\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12a34038 elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"12a34038\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1696\" 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target=\"_blank\">Dr. Trisha Borgohain \u2013 Assistant Professor (Senior) <\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erp.dbuniversity.ac.in\/emplist\/viewprofile.php?id=870\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Halim Hussain \u2013 Assistant Professor (Senior) <\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erp.dbuniversity.ac.in\/emplist\/viewprofile.php?id=687\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Smita Devi \u2013 Assistant Professor (stage I)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erp.dbuniversity.ac.in\/emplist\/viewprofile.php?id=726\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Dimpy Bania \u2013 Assistant Professor (stage I)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erp.dbuniversity.ac.in\/emplist\/viewprofile.php?id=889\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Sonali Singha \u2013 Assistant Professor (stage I)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erp.dbuniversity.ac.in\/emplist\/viewprofile.php?id=896\" target=\"_blank\">Aditi Ghosh \u2013 Assistant Professor (stage I)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erp.dbuniversity.ac.in\/emplist\/viewprofile.php?id=949\" target=\"_blank\">Himangshu Sarma \u2013 Assistant Professor (stage I)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erp.dbuniversity.ac.in\/emplist\/viewprofile.php?id=960\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Indrani Choudhury \u2013 Assistant Professor (stage I)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erp.dbuniversity.ac.in\/emplist\/viewprofile.php?id=964\" target=\"_blank\">Ms. Dikshita Das \u2013 Assistant Professor (stage I)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erp.dbuniversity.ac.in\/emplist\/viewprofile.php?id=983\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Manmita Sarmah \u2013 Assistant Professor (stage I)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c77f7f6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c77f7f6\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fdf6b33 premium-title-color elementor-widget 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