Part I: This course would be devoted toi) understanding the debates around ephemerality and the archive andii) how in the context of these debates… Read More

Types of Literary Research: Theoretical Research, Textual Research, Historical Research, Interpretative Research, Interdisciplinary Research.… Read More

This course will develop and build on the student?s knowledge of basic phonology and morphology and will adress topics such as Principles of… Read More

This advanced course on issues in syntax and semantics shall address issues such as Minimalism and economy of representation, Feature-checking (… Read More

This course deals with the interface areas between the cognitive sciences of Linguistics and Psychology and Neuroscience. Issues to be discussed… Read More

This course seeks to understand the changing meanings of culture and the emergence of cultural studies in general and in India in particular. The… Read More

The course aims to do the following:
1. Situate language in the intersection of various disciplines to show how an understanding of the… Read More

Learning notational representation of pitch/rhythm/tempo/dynamics/instrumentation Identifying keys (major/minor), modes, ragas, intervals and… Read More

Students will learn to think about the following topics in terms of both musical representation (notation, terms for musical analysis) and the… Read More

This course offers a comparative perspective on important trends in modern india. Through highly participatory pedagogic methods, the students are… Read More

The course introduces the objects, methods, debates and critical frames of literary studies. The course will centre for study: • a selection of… Read More

This course introduces students to the idea of performance and its pedagogic practices. The course equips students with critical skills to… Read More

This course intends to introduce students to dialogues between practices across and within visual arts, performance, film and media. It will… Read More

The proposed course introduces students to the foundations of media studies as a field of research, pedagogy, and practice. The course explores a… Read More

This course will focus on the reading, interpretation, and evaluation of select literary texts from the canon and outside, including literatures… Read More

The course aims to do the following:
1. Situate language in the intersection of various disciplines to show how an understanding of the… Read More

This course introduces students to the mediated ecology of digital screen cultures. From photography to vlogging, cinema to fan cultures,… Read More

Students will learn to think critically about: 1) the relationship between music and society 2) organology (the classification of musical… Read More

Salient topics of this course are as follows : The novel : birth of a genre in the eighteenth century; literary ancestors of the novel; evolution… Read More

This course offers a comparative perspective on important trends in modern india. Through highly participatory pedagogic methods, the students are… Read More

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Some of the main features of the human language faculty make it unique in the… Read More

History of Literature, taking English as an example, may be taken up for study in order to understand how the history of English Literature is… Read More

1.The main objective of the course is to open up the field of ‘Theatre and Performance Studies’ to the students such that the various debates… Read More

Topics will include an overview of Shakespearean theatre, audience, classification of his plays, and the main corpus of significant Shakespearean… Read More

This is an advanced course on Postcolonial Theory. In this course, we will examine some of the influential scholarship that constitutes the field… Read More

The course will take a survey form, aiming to introduce students to the history of engagement with literary (and other artistic) forms. As a… Read More

Topics of study may seek to examine  Canon formations, Award-regimes  Socio-economic, cultural, political and legal conditions that produce… Read More