Department Of English

Funding Agency Title of the Project Name of the faculty Member Year commenced
Jay Prakash Narayan Centre for Advanced Studies, IIT Indore Digital Database of Oceanic Fictions in Indian Languages and Beyond Prof. NIshat Zaidi 2024 - 2026

University Grants Commission

UGC-DAAD Project Based Personnel Exchange Programme  - “Mobile Feminisms: Gender, Social Media, Transnational Interactions” in collaboration with Prof Dr Mary Ann Snyder-Korber, English and American Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany

Prof  Simi Malhotra

2021-

Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

New Terrains of Consciousness: Globalization, Sensory Environments and Local Cultures of Knowledge in collaboration with Julius Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany

Prof  Simi Malhotra

Prof Nishat Zaidi

2019-2021

Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

“Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought: Thinking through history across the waters” in collaboration with University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Prof Nishat Zaidi

Prof Simi Malhotra

2019-2021

Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

Debating and Calibrating the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asian Literature and Culture

Prof Nishat Zaidi

Dr Saroj Mahananda

2019-2021

Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

Digital Apprehensions of Poetics in collaboration with Michigan State University, USA

Prof Nishat Zaidi

Mr Roomy Naqvy

2019-2021

Indian Council for Social Science Research

A Study of Muslim Question

in Malayalam and Bengali

Cinema of the Indian Subcontinent

Prof Anuradha Ghosh

2017-2019

University Grants Commission

Translation of Identified Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Texts into English

Phase 1

Phase 2

Prof M. Asaduddin

2005-2009

2009-2014

University Grants Commission

Premchand’s Non-fiction & Life Writing in Indian Languages 

Prof Amina Kazi Ansari

2015-2020

Self -funded

Documentation of Oral narratives of Western Odisha

Dr Saroj Kumar Mahananda

ongoing

Self -funded

Translation of Premchand’s miscellaneous writings

Dr Saroj Kumar Mahananda

ongoing