Faculty of Arts - English

Academic contribution in last five years

Dr Nilanjana Gupta's revised edition of the textbook English for All (Macmillan India 2000), produced as a Departmental project under her supervision, has achieved wide recognition. She is also an authority on media studies, having published widely on this subject in India and abroad. She was awarded a two weeks' Visitorship at the Programme on Comparative Media, Law and Policy at Wolfson College, Oxford, in September 2000 and lectured there on 'India's IT Policy'. She also visited the universities of London and Sussex in June-July 1998 to work on realism in contemporary fiction. She has contributed to a forthcoming book from Routledge, London, on The Enabling Environment: Media, Reform and the Democratisation Process in Societies in Transition. She has also spoken widely on aspects of media and culture. She has worked on a WB Government project on solar energy. She has edited a volume of critical essays on Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Delhi: Worldview Publications, 2001) and was Director of the DSA National Seminar on crime fiction, Murder in the English Department, held in March 2001. Dr Nilanjana Gupta acted as Co-Ordinator of the Certificate Course on Functional English, November 2001-February 2002. She is the Convenor of the University's Cell for Gender Sensitisation and Prevention of Sexual Harrassment.

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