Utkal University

Sl.No.	Programmes	Number of seats
1	MA	40
2	PhD

Sl.No.	Programme	Download
3	M.Phil PhD Syllabus -2021
4	MA English CBCS Syllabus-2021

Department Library and Reading Room
Smart Classroom

Publications

Publications of the Department

Peer Reviewed Journals

“Fakirmohan Senapati on the World Literary Map: A Study of Criticism” ResMilitaris (resmilitaris.net), vol.12, no.5. December Issue 2022.ISSN: 2265-6294 pp 73-81 https://resmilitaris.net/issue-view/?id=7(Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
“Black Humour, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Reading Of The Remedy In Martin Amis’s Dead Babies.”Journal of Positive School Psychology http://journalppw.com 2022, Vol. 6, No. 11, pp.1651-1662https://journalppw.com/index.php/jpsp/issue/view/42 ISSN: 2717-7564 (Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
“The Black and the Unpleasant: Upamanyu Chatterjee’sWeight Loss” Re-Markings 21, no. 1, 2022. (Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
‘Indian Epics and the helpless Shakespearean tragic hero: Masculinity at Crisis’, Journal of Literary Studies (JLS, Peer Reviewed), Vol.25, March 2022. pp.214-231. (Asima Ranjan Parhi)
‘Translating Form over Lexis: A Study through Select Odia Poetry in English Translation’ (Joint with Madhumita Nayak), Translation Today(CIIL, Mysuru, UGC CARE, Double Blind Peer Reviewed and Indexed) Vol.15, Issue2, Uploaded on website on1 February 2021. ISSN-0972-8740 https://www.ntm.org.in/download/ttvol/volume15-2/Article%209.pdf (Asima Ranjan Parhi)
“The Hegemony of English and World Literature: A Study of Translation Flow and Literary Circulation.” Folia Linguistica et, vol. 8, no. 39, 2021, pp. 167–183,DOI: 10.31902/fll.39.2022.9
https://folia.ac.me/arhiva39.html ISSN: ISSN 2337-0955 (Online) ISSN 1800-8542 (Print) TanutrushnaPanigrahi
“Autobiography or Autofiction: Fakirmohan Senapati’s Atmacharita” Odisha Review vol 78, no. 4-5, 24-28. 2021.(Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
“Missionaries Interface: Comparing the Development of Assamese and Oriya Literary Culture in the Nineteenth Century” Contemporary Literary Review India 8, no. 4, 2021, doi:10.201411/clri. v8i4.995. Online ISSN 2394-6075 / Print ISSN 2250-3366 pp 58-79 (Tanutrushna Panigrahi)https://www.literaryjournal.in/index.php/clri/article/view/995
“Novels of Martin Amis: A Review of the Critical Reception.” IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, vol. 10, no. 1, 2021, pp. 96–101., doi:10.22492/ijl.10.1.06.(Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
‘Dharma, Complicit Narrator and Decent Meaning Formation: A Subversive Reading of The Mahabharata’, Indraprastha, An International Journal of Culture and Communication Studies, IX& X, Double Blind and Peer Reviewed Journal of Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi,2020. ISSN- ISSN-2278-7208. pp.193-215.(Asima Ranjan Parhi)
¨The English Language in India: From Racial-Colonial to Democratic”, EJBS (The European Journal of Behavioural Sciences)3 (1): 8-16, 2020. (Asima Ranjan Parhi)
“Resolving Dichotomies: John Cheever’s Comic Imagination and Expelled as Debut.” International Journal of Language and Literature, vol. 8, no. 2, 2020, doi:10.15640/ijll. v8n2a7.(Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
‘Elitist Bohemian or Privately Rebellious? The love lyrics of Charles Baudelaire’, OAES (Odisha Association of English Studies), Vol.IX, Issue-1, ISSN-2249-6726, 2019. https://www.univ-bechar.dz/these/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Odisha-Journal.pdf(Asima Ranjan Parhi)
Racism and Representation of Racialized Beauty in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Journal: IJELLH International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities. ISSN: 2582-4406, 2020 Vol: 8 Iss: 10 Pg: 137-147(NirjhariniTripathy)
“An Overview of Translation Practice in Odisha: From Transcreation to Translation.” TransLogos Translation Studies Journal, 3/1, no. 3/1, 2020, pp. 46–69., doi:10.29228/translogos.21.(Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
“Children’s World Literature Translation of Alice in Wonderland in Odia.” Indian Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, June 2020, pp. 12–24.(Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
“Examining Illustration as Intersemiotic Translation: A Study of Alice in the Wonderland in Abridged Odia Translation.” Contemporary Literary Review India, vol. 7, no. 2, May 2020, pp. 56–69.(Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
“On Translating Andersen for Odia Readers: A Study of Biswa Sahitya Granthamala.” Shanlax International Journal of English, vol. 8, no. 3, 2020, pp. 19–25., doi:10.34293/english. v8i3.3174.(Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
‘Educating the Impressionable: A Study of Bira Kishore Parhi’s Teaching Life as a site of Educational Reform’(Joint with Madhumita Nayak), Public Administration Review, Dept. of Public Administration, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, VOL. NO. : XX, 2019. PP.55-65. ISSN-2249-3360. (Asima Ranjan Parhi)
“Globalism, World Literature and the Internet.” Research Journal of English Language and Literature, vol. 7, no. 1, Mar. 2019, pp.503–508.(Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
“Thoreau’s Opposing Ecology: Walden for the Anthropocene.” Re-Markings, 18, no. 1, Mar. 2019, pp. 66–71.(Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
Politics, Power, Domination and Differences: Nation Building in BapsiSidhwa’s Cracking India. IJELLH International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities. ISSN: 2321-7065 Yr: 2018 Vol: 6 Iss: 1 Pg: 118-126(NirjhariniTripathy)
Analysis of Woman madness in the kernel of class, gender and race of Patriarchal white colonialism in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing. Journal: Writers Editors Critics ISSN: 2231-198X Yr: 2018 Vol: 8 Iss: 1 Pg: 77-83 (Nirjharini Tripathy)
War and Women: Enslavement and Emancipation: New Afghan Women in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns. Journal: IJML International Journal on Multicultural Literature ISSN: 2231-6248 Yr: 2018 Vol: 8 Iss: 1 Pg: 53-60(NirjhariniTripathy)
“Poetry, policy and People in Odia Writing from the Margin: An Exercise in Anthropocene”, OAES (Journal of the Odisha Association for English Studies), Vol-7, Issue-1,2017, pp.63-74. ISSN-2249-6726.https://www.univ-bechar.dz/these/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Odisha-Journal.pdf(Asima Ranjan Parhi)
Victim or Victor: Self Exploration of Woman in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing. Journal: IJELLH International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities. ISSN: 2321-7065 Yr: 2017 Vol: 5 Iss: 12 Pg: 244-251(Nirjharini Tripathy)
Deepika, S. “The Meteque Writer and the Postcolonial Discourse”, Search: A Journalof Arts, Humanities & Management, DDCE, Utkal University, ISSN No. 0974-5416.201( S. Deepika)
“Transnational as the Initiation: The Tales of the Green- Eyed Thieves of Imraan Coovadia.” REMARKINGS, 16, no. 2, Mar. 2017, pp. 42–49.(Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
“The secret of Ganeswar Mishra’s story telling art. Journal of the Odisha Association of English Studies.6. 2016. (Prof.H S Mohapatra)

Chapters in Books

‘Literature and Philosophy’, Translation of Bipin Behari Ray’s essay SahityareDarshana. Critical Discourse in Odisha, Ed. J K Nayak and A Mohapatra, Routledge, 2022.ISBN-978-1-032-33239-0.DOI-10.4324/9781003224778). (Asima Ranjan Parhi)
‘Destitute humanity and impoverished Saint’, D H Lawrence: New Essays from India, Ed. Bibhu Padhi, Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, 2022. Pp-162-180). (Asima Ranjan Parhi)
“Realism, Mimesis and Beyond.” In Revisiting Early Indian Fiction: Reading, Writing Society, Authorspress New Delhi. pp. 231–241. 2021(Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
‘Localising the Alien: Newspaper English and the Indian Classroom’ in English Studies in India: Contemporary and Evolving Paradigms. Eds. B. Mahanta and R. B. Sharma, Singapore: Springer, 2019. ISBN-978-981-13-1525-1, pp. 213-223. (Cited by 1, reviewed in Roopkatha,2020).(Asima Ranjan Parhi)
Deepika, S. “What Can We Learn from Reading Groups?”, The Unbilled Hour: Essayson Literature, Culture and Theory. Eds. Bijay Danta et al. Kitab Bhawan, ISBN No.93857-97200, 2018.(S. Deepika)
“Politics of the Form: Nineteenth Century Indian Novel.” The Unbilled Hour, Kitab Bhawan, Bhubaneswar, 2018, pp. 201–211. ISBN: 978-93-85797-20-0pp 201-211(Tanutrushna Panigrahi)

Books/Edited Books

“An American Comedy: A Study through John Cheever’s Fictions”,Whitefalcon Publishing, 2023. (Tanutrushna Panigrahi)
Of Sons and Fathers, anthology of sixty-eight poems, Bird Nest (Pakshi Ghara Prakashanee), Bhubaneswar, 2022.ISBN-978-81-938882-9-4.Reviewed in Indian literature (July-August 2022), Bharatiya Manyaprada (May 2022), Pioneer (5 January 2023), Bhubaneswar Edition. (Asima Ranjan Parhi)
Makers of Modern Indian Literature: Rajkishore Pattnaik, Sahitya Akademi, 2020. (Asima Ranjan Parhi)
Literature and art of Communication (co-edited), Cambridge University Press, 2019.ISBN-978-1-108-81662-5. (Asima Ranjan Parhi)
Women and awareness in the writings of Manju Kapur, Mahasweta Deviand Mahesh Dattani, Authors Press New Delhi, 978-93-88008-09-9. (Nirjharini Tripathy)
Trauma and Terrorism in the novels of Don DeLillo, Mohsin Hamid andShafi Ahmad, 978-93-88008-23-5.(Nirjharini Tripathy)
The Myriad Facets of Women: A study of the novels of Manju Kapur,Authors Press New Delhi, 978-93-88859-29-5.(Nirjharini Tripathy)
The Unbilled Hour: Essays onLiterature, Culture and Theory”, English, Kitab Bhawan, ISBN No. 93857-97200,2018.(S. Deepika)
“The Widening Arc”, English, Kitab Bhawan,2016.(A R Parhi, S. Deepika and P. Jani)

Book Review/Essays

A Review of Carry on Ms Caretaker by LipipuspaNayak. Vanguard Press, Indian Literature (Nov. Dec.2022), SahityaAkademi(AsimaRanjanParhi).
“Translation as Reparation”, The Book Review, The Book ReviewLiterary Trust, New Delhi, ISSN No. 0970-4175, Vol. 46, No. 10, October 2022https://www.thebookreviewindia.org/translation-as-reparation/(S. Deepika)
“Of Human Frailty and Moral Resilience”, The Book Review, The BookReview Literary TrustNew Delhi, ISSN No. 0970-4175, Vol. 46, No. 7, July 2022.https://www.thebookreviewindia.org/of-human-frailty-and-moral-resilience/(S. Deepika)
“The Literary versus Un(?) literary”, Odisha Bytes, literary column, 10 May 2021 (AsimaRanjanParhi)

“A Timely Recall”, The Book Review, The Book Review Literary Trust,New Delhi, ISSN No. 0970-4175, Vol. XLV, No. 2, February2021. https://www.thebookreviewindia.org/a-timely-recall/(S. Deepika)
“A Tribute Patremoir”, Odisha Bytes. 24 April 2021.https://odishabytes.com/a-tribute-patremoir/(S. Deepika)
“Towards a Translated Modernity”, The Book Review, The Book ReviewLiterary Trust, New Delhi, ISSN No. 0970-4175, Vol. XLIV, No. 7, July2020. https://www.thebookreviewindia.org/towards-a-translated-modernity/(S. Deepika)
‘The Mahabharata and Plurality of Text’, Guest Column, Odisha Bytes, 10 May 2020 (AsimaRanjanParhi).
“A Novel of Thresholds: Basanti and Writing the New Woman in OdiaLiterary Culture”, Himal Southasian, Himal Southasian, Colombo, Sri Lanka, ISSNNo. 10129804. 2019. https://www.himalmag.com/a-novel-of-thresholds-basanti-odiya-deepika-2019/ (S Deepika)
‘Controversies in Odia literature’, Will to Argue: Studies in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Controversies, Indian Literature, SahityaAkademi, Vol.LXIII, No.5, Sept-Oct 2019.pp190-192. (AsimaRanjanParhi)
‘A Mystical Union’ published in The New Indian Express, Bhubaneswar edition, 11.02.2017 on Konarka: A Story of Explosive Love by BiswakeshTripathy, Authors Press,2016(Asima Ranjan Parhi)

Translation

Amrita Smarane’, Kadambini, September 2019, translation of SitakantaMohapatra’s essay ‘Remembering Amrita’ into Odia. https://kalingatv.com/miscellany/august-2019-issue-of-kadambini-features-beauty-queen-kalpasa-ankita/( Asima Ranjan Parhi)
‘Temple in Ruins’, translation of SachidanandaRoutray’s ‘BhangaMandira’ into English, Muse India, Monsoon, Feature-‘Tradition and Modernity in Odia Literature’, Ed. SachidanandaMohanty, issue-92, July-August 2020, ISSN-0975-1815. (Journal of Repute) https://museindia.com/Home/AuthorContentDataView(Asima Ranjan Parhi)
‘Bapa-an Unfinished Narrative’, translation (Joint with AdyashaMohapatra) of DebasisPanigrahi’s ‘Bapa-EkaAsampurnaUpanyasa’, Debasis: An Unfinished Saga, PakshiGhara, Bhubaneswar, 29 June 2021.(Asima Ranjan Parhi)

Research Projects

Sl. No.	Project title	Funding agency	Amount (Rs. in lakh)	Period	PI/Co-PI/ Coordinator
1.	History of English Studies in Odisha	Utkal University Seed Research Grant	75000	2017	Dr.S.Deepika (PI), Pulastya Jani (Co-PI)

Workshop/Seminar Details

Conference, Seminar and Workshop

Next to teaching, it is seminars and workshops which keep a department vibrant, active and dynamic by providing a forum for the exchange of ideas, interaction with scholars and professors from outside the department and thus fuelling research into new fields of knowledge. The English department has an enviable track record in organizing these felicitous academic events, as the list below amply reveals.

Workshop/Seminar Details 2023-2025

Event Name and Details	Keynoters and Resource Persons	Funding Agency
National Seminar on Negotiating Fact and Fiction: Literature as History, 5–6 December 2025	Keynote: Prof. David Reid Syiemlieh, Former Professor of History, NEHU, Former Vice Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi University, Former Chairman, UPSC & Padma Shri Awardee (2025)	Departmental Conference
National Seminar on Indian Textual Traditions: Native and hybrid Engagements, 28 February–01 March 2025	Keynote: Prof. K. C. Belliappa, Former Professor of English, Mysore University & Former Vice Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh	Departmental Conference
International Conference on Translating Literatures of the Global South: Challenges	Keynote: Peter Constantine, Professor of Translation	Odisha State Higher Education
Questions and Debates, 18–20 July 2024	Studies and Director of the Program in Literary Translation, University of Connecticut, USA	Council, Govt. of Odisha
WB-OHEPEE Sponsored International Seminar on “Decolonizing Translation”, 27–28 March 2024	Keynote: Alvin Pang, Poet and Translator, Singapore University	WB-OHEPEE
National Seminar on Indian Epistemology and Politics of Appropriating Myths, 26 April 2023	Keynote: Prof. Susheel Kumar Sharma, Professor of English, University of Allahabad	Departmental Conference
National Seminar on “World Theatre Day”, 27 March 2023	Keynote: Prof. Prafulla K Mohanty, Former Professor of English	Departmental Conference
National Conference on Modernism and its afterlives: Debates, Discourse, Departures, 11–12 March 2022	Keynote Speaker: Prof. Supriya Chaudhury, Professor Emerita, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.	Departmental Conference

Conferences

Sl. No	Event Name and Details	Keynoters and Resource Persons	Funding Agency
1	National conference on “Modernism and Its Afterlives: Debates, Discourse, Departures” 11-12 March 2022	Keynote Speaker: Prof. Supriya Chaudhury, Professor Emerita, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Plenary Speaker: Prof. Ashok K Mohapatra, Former Professor of English, Sambalpur University, Sambalpur-Odisha.	Departmental Conference
2	International conference on “Politics and Letters: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” 23-25 January 2018	Keynote Speaker: Prof. UdayKumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Plenary Speakers: Dr. Paul St-Pierre, Adjunct Professor of Linguistics and Translation, Montreal University, Canada. Dr. Mauricio D. AguileraLinde, Department of English and German Philology, University of Granada, Spain.	Departmental Conference
3	International conference on “De-centering English Studies: Studying Literature in the Global South” 19-21 January 2017	Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Professor of English, New York University, USA. Plenary Speakers: Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz, Honors College Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, USA. Dr. Paul St-Pierre, Adjunct Professor of Linguistics and Translation, Montreal University, Canada. Dr. Ravi Vasudevan, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.	Departmental Conference
4	National Seminar on Negotiating Fact and Fiction: Literature as History, 5-6 December 2025	Keynote: Prof. David Reid Syiemlieh, Former Professor of History, NEHU, Former Vice Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi University, Former Chairman, UPSC & Padma Shri Awardee (2025)	Departmental Conference
5	National Seminar on Indian Textual Traditions: Native and hybrid Engagements, 28 February -01 March 2025	Keynote: Prof. K C .Belliappa, Former Professor of English, Mysore University & Former Vice Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh	Departmental Conference
6	International Conference on Translating Literatures of the Global South: Challenges, Questions and Debates, 18-20 July 2024	Keynote: Peter Constantine, Professor of Translation Studies and Director of the Program in Literary Translation, University of Connecticut, USA	Odisha State Higher Education Council, Govt. of Odisha
7	WB-OHEPEE Sponsored International Seminar on “Decolonizing Translation”, 27-28 March 2024	Keynote: Alvin Pang, Poet and Translator, Singapore University	WB-OHEPEE
8	National Seminar on Indian Epistemology and Politics of Appropriating Myths, 26 April 2023	Keynote: Prof. Susheel Kumar Sharma, Professor of English, University of Allahabad	Departmental Conference
9	National Seminar on “World Theatre Day”, 27 March 2023	Keynote: Prof. Prafulla K Mohanty, Former Professor of English	Departmental Conference
10	National Conference on “Modernism and its afterlives: Debates, Discourse, Departures”, 11-12 March 2022	Keynote Speaker: Prof. SupriyaChaudhury, Professor Emerita, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.	Departmental Conference

Seminars

Serial Number	Event Name and Detail	Keynoters and Resource Persons	Funding Agency
1	National Seminar on “Reading Across Literatures” 15 December 2021	Dr. Tanutrushna Panigrahi, IIIT-Bhubaneswar	Departmental Seminar
2	National Symposium on “The Empty Page”06 April 2018	Prof. Bijay K. Danta, Tezpur University, Tezpur-Assam	Departmental Seminar
3	National Skill based Workshop on “Developing English Communication Skills”11 March 2017	Shri Hara Prasad Das, Odia Writer & Columnist	Departmental Seminar
4	National Seminar on “Astride the Divides” 25 Nov 2016	Dr. Sayantan Dasgupta, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University-Kolkata	Departmental Seminar

Visits/Lectures/Talks

Sl. No	Event Name and Detail	Keynoters and Resource Persons	Funding Agency
1	“Global Modernity and Colonial Odisha”16 Dec 2022	Prof. Sumanyu Satpathy, Former Professor, Delhi University, New Delhi	Departmental Seminar
2	“Re-imagining Romanticism” 04 July 2022	Dr. Mahasweta Baxipatra, Indiana University-USA	Departmental Seminar
3	“The Value(s) of a Literary Education: Beauty, Truth, Language, Freedom, and Democracy”22 March 2022	Chandrahas Chaudhury, Indian Writer	Departmental Seminar
4	“Accessing the Dramatic Text: Narrative and Performative Dimensions”10 Dec 2021	Prof. Banibrata Mahanta, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-Uttar Pradesh	Departmental Seminar
5	“Remembering Albert Camus” 08 Nov 2021	Prof. Jatindra Kumar Nayak, Former Professor, Utkal University-Bhubaneswar	Departmental Seminar
6	“Writing, Editing, Translating” 9 Sept 2019	Mini Krishnan, Editor-Translations, OUP	Departmental Seminar
7	“Ambiguity of the English Language” 8 March 2019	Prof. B. N. Pattanaik, IIT Kanpur	Departmental Seminar
8	“History of a Department and History of English Studies” 8 Nov 2018	Prof. P.C. Kar, Former Professor of English, M.S. University of Baroda	Departmental Seminar
9	“English Language Education in Odisha” 5 Oct 2018	Prof. Bikram K Das, Eminent Translator	Departmental Seminar
10	“Teaching Drama in the Classroom” 2 Dec 2017	Prof. Ashesh Gupta, Tripura University, Manipur	Departmental Seminar
11	“What is Literature for?” 4 Sep 2017	Chandrahas Chaudhury, Indian Writer	Departmental Seminar
12	“Social Realism in ChhaManaAthaGuntha” 24 July 2017	Prof. Satya Prakash Mohanty, CornellUniversity, USA	Departmental Seminar
13	“How-to of Writing” 25 March 2017	1. Prof. Asantha Attanayake, University of Colombo 2. Adam Lawrence Barborich, American Scholar of Buddhist Studies	Departmental Seminar
14	“Backpacking across Northern Russia” 7 Feb 2017	Geoffrey Barkess, Travel Writer	Departmental Seminar

Golden Jubilee Lecture Series: 2019-20

Serial Number	Event Name and Detail	Keynoters and Resource Persons	Funding Agency
1	“The Language Situation in India: an Israeli Perspective”07 Feb 2020	Prof. Lev Aran, Writer & Columnist, Israel	Departmental Seminar
2	“Language Behaviour and Education in India”19 Jan 2020	Prof. SandhyaraniSahoo, NCERT, New Delhi	Departmental Seminar
3	“Experiment and Ethics in Metafiction” 06 Jan 2020	Prof. Bijay K. Danta, Tezpur University, Tezpur-Assam	Departmental Seminar
4	“Cross-cultural Identity, Memory and its Representation” 25 July 2019	Prof. Stephanos Stephanides, University of Cyprus, Greece	Departmental Seminar
5	“Desire, Devotion, and Love in the Sanskrit and Hebrew Sacred Poetry of Gita Govinda and Song of Songs” 29 April 2019	Dr. Yudit Greenberg, Rollins College, Florida, USA	Departmental Seminar

Achievements

Significant Achievements of the Department

A national conference was organised by the Department on “Modernism and Its Afterlives” on 11-12 March 2022. Prof. Supriya Chaudhuri, Professor Emerita, Jadavpur University delivered the keynote address. The plenary lecture was delivered by Prof. Ashok Mohapatra, former professor, Department of English, Sambalpur University. During the inauguration of the conference, the Vice-Chancellor Prof. Sabita Acharya released the Department journal, Journal of Literary Studies, which was revived after its long hibernation. In another session of the conference, Prof. Supriya Chaudhury released Prof. Asima Ranjan Parhi’s recent book Of Sons and Fathers. She introduced the book to the audience while a review paper reading session followed her deliberations on the book.
2019-20 began and brought a closure to the two important celebrations, the Platinum Jubilee of the University and Golden Jubilee of the Department. The Department organised two literary events to mark the Platinum Jubilee year of the University during 19-20 November 2018. Poetry and translation sessions were included in the event named “Sugandha Abhibyaktira”. The poetry session had panellists that included Snehaprava Das, Bibhu Padhi, Goparanjan Mishra and Padmaja Saran. Renowned translators Dr. Bikram Keshari Das and Jatindra Kumar Nayak were steering the session along with Asima Ranjan Parhi, the HOD English. The Platinum Jubilee
Research Conclave of the University on 26 November 2019 had an entry from the Department, where Madhumita Nayak, PhD scholar presented her poster on “A Teaching Life: Bira Kishore Parhi’s Mali Dhuli Malukha”.
The Golden Jubilee Lecture series began in the month of April 2019with the first lecture by Dr. Yudit Greenberg from Rollins College, Florida, USA. Dr. Stephanos Stephanides from the University of Cyprus delivered the second lecture of the series and spoke on cross-cultural identity, memory and its representation.
2019 was important in terms of academic renovation. The common UG English syllabus that was framed earlier by the BOS was implemented in 2019.
Following the high success of the 2017 conference another international conference was organised in January 2018 on the topic“Politics and Letters: The Function of Criticism at the present Time” during 23-25. Prof. Uday Kumar from the Department of English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi delivered the keynote speech. Prof. Mauricio D Aguilera Linde from the University of Granada, Spain was one of the plenary speakers.
In July 2017, the Department took one step further in its academic and intellectual pursuits with the release of the special issue of Search, the flagship journal of the Directorate of Distance and Continuing Education, Utkal University. This special issue devoted to the theme “De-centring English Studies” and included a selection of eighteen articles by the students, young scholars and faculty of English.
2017 was a year of memory creation; an international conference on the topic “De-centring English Studies: Studying Literature in the Global South” was organised during 19-21 January 2017. The keynote speech was delivered by noted postcolonial study expert Prof. Rajeswari Sundar Rajan, Professor of English, New York University, USA. The plenary speakers were Ellen Handler Spitz, Honors College Professor, University of Baltimore, Maryland campus and Dr. Paul St-Pierre, Adjunct Professor of Linguistics and Translation, Montreal University, Canada.
A writing contest to mark the quarter centenary of William Shakespeare’s death, announced on 6 August 2016, finally took place on 4 November2016.Smita Mohanty, Semester 3 and Bibhulina Mishra, Semester 1 of the MA class emerged as the winner and runner up in the competition respectively. They went on a fully sponsored trip to Stratford-upon-Avon, England, Shakespeare’s birthplace in September 2017.

Awards &Achievements (From 2017 onwards)

Students (NET/GATE)

Sl. No	Name of the student	Programme studied	Nature of Achievement	Year
1	Preeti Deogan	MA	NET	2018
2	Nalinikanta Parhi	MA	NET	2018
3	Sibasis Mirja Majhi	MA	NET	2018
4	Aiswarya Mishra	MA	NET	2018
5	Siddharth Baral	MA	NET	2019
6	Ipsita Mishra	MA	NET	2019
7	Adyasha Pattnaik	MA	NET	2019
8	Puja Khandelwal	MA	NET	2019
9	Deepika Rani Turuk	MA	NET	2019
10	Smita Mohanty	MA	NET	2019
11	Satabhisa Nayak	MA	JRF	2019
12	Payosmi Mishra	MA	NET	2020
13	Samikshya Das	MA	NET	2020
14	Alok Ranjan Behera	MA	NET	2020

Placement

A large number of our students have cracked the State Service Selection Board examination and have been recently placed in non-government colleges across Odisha. Many students also find employment in the leading engineering, technical, and professional institutes of the state. During 2016-21 the following students were placed in different jobs:

Year	Name of student placed	Program graduated from	Name of the employer
2023-2024	Ananya Bal	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Ramesh Chandra Naik	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Lizashree Priyadarshini Sethy	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Vivek Bekka	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Nagma Nisha Nanda	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Pritam Panda	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Gracy Kujur	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Jasmine Rout	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Sweta Rathor	M.Phil	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Raju Sabar	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Arpita Patro	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Manoj Pradhan	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Payosmi Mishra	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Rachita Swain	M.Phil	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Gayatri Hembram	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Tilottama Hessa	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Anigrace Wadeka A	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
	Juhee Panda	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2024-25	Monika Monalisa	MA	OAVS
	Adysha Pallai	MA	OAVS
	Roshnara Mary Priyadarshini	MA	OAVS

Year	Name of the Student	Programme	Employer
2016	Anjali Mayee Khuntia	MA	DAV, Chandrasekharpur
2016	Sagar Kumar Bhoi	MA	OPSC
2016	Hrusikesh Subudhi	MA	OPSC
2016	Anupama Bage	MA	Secretariat
2017	Gourav Sharma:	MA	SSB
2017	Sasmita Kallo	MA	SSB
2017	Girija Sankar Pradhan	MA	OES, Polytechnic
2017	Arati Munda	MA	SSB
2017	Bijay Barwa	MA	Secretariat Odisha
2017	Ishab Mishra	MA	SSB
2017	Sheelpa Mishra	M.Phil	SSB
2017	RoshanKullu	MA	SSB
2017	AnibhaEkka	MA	OPSC
2017	Anita Jain	MA	OPSC
2017	Mahaprasad Rath	MA	SSB
2017	Bastabika Das	MA	SSB
2018	Bar Barnini Panda	MA	OPSC
2018	Sanjib Sahu	MA	OPSC
2018	Dharmapanda Jena	MA	OPSC
2018	SoumyaRanjanPadhy	MA	Ravenshaw University
2018	Ankita Panda	MA	OES, Polytechnic
2019	Abhijit Panda	MA	SSB
2019	Sridhi Dash	MA	SSB
2019	Saswati Pattnaik	MA	SSB
2019	Ananta Sabar:	MA	SSB
2019	Nalinikanta Parhi	MA	SSB
2019	PriyankaPurty	MA	SSB
2019	Muralidhar Sharma	MA	G.M. University
2019	Pujapurna Dash	MA	SSB
2019	Sipra Priyadarshini Sarangi	MA	SSB
2019	Sona Nayak	MA	SSB
2019	Uday Naik	M.Phil	SSB
2019	Ajay Deep	M.Phil	SSB
2019	Mitali Routray	MA	OAVS
2019	Danial Marandi	MA	SSB
2019	Samya Mohanty	MA	SSB
2019	Usharani Rath	PhD Coursework	SSB
2019	Ipsita Behera	MA	SSB
2020	Sourav Preetam Singh	MA	KIIS
2021	Abinash Chandra Panigrahi	MA	OAVS
2021	Alok Ranjan Behera	MA	Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya
2021	Niibedita Pradhan	MA	Child welfare Officer, Ministry of Child and Women Development, Odisha
2021	Pratikshya Priyadarshini	MA	Gayatri Residential Higher Secondary School
2021	Pragyan Dora	MA	Navodaya
2021	AdyashaPatnaik	MA	Byju’s , Bangalore
2021	Ipsita Mishra	MA	OAVS

Year	Name of student placed	Program graduated from	Name of the employer
2023-2024	Ananya Bal	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	Ramesh Chandra Naik	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	LizashreePriyadarshiniSethy	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	Vivek Ekka	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	NagmaNisha Nanda	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	Pritam Panda	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	GracyKujur	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	Jasmine Rout	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	SwetaRathor	M.Phil	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	Raju Sabar	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	ArpitaPatro	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	Manoj Pradhan	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	Payosmi Mishra	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	Rachita Swain	M.Phil	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	GayatriHembram	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	TilottamaHessa	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	AnigraceWadeka A	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2023-2024	Juhee Panda	MA	Govt of Odisha, Dept. of Higher Education (SSB)
2024-25	Monika Monalisa	MA	OAVS
2024-25	AdyshaPallai	MA	OAVS
2024-25	Roshnara Mary Priyadarshini	MA	OAVS

Students

LIST OF MA ENGLISH STUDENTS (ADMISSION SESSION 2025-26)

Sl. No	Dept. Roll No	Name of the Student
1	25ENG001	RITIKA KANHAR
2	25ENG002	BAIBHAV KANHAR
3	25ENG003	SWAYAM RAJ DORA
4	25ENG004	ASHWATI SAHU
5	25ENG005	GARIMA MISRA
6	25ENG006	PRAGYAN PARIMITA SAHOO
7	25ENG007	BIPLABI BIJAYENI SAHOO
8	25ENG008	ABINASH KUMAR NAHAK
9	25ENG009	PARAKANTA PRADHAN
10	25ENG010	SUBHAM SINGH
11	25ENG011	SWAGATIKA NAYAK
12	25ENG012	KAUSALYA DAS
13	25ENG013	RASMITA XALXO
14	25ENG014	BISWAJIT BISWAL
15	25ENG015	SWASTI PRAVA MALLICK
16	25ENG016	PAWANI BASA
17	25ENG017	SWARNALATA INDWAR
18	25ENG018	PALLABI JOSHI NAYAK
19	25ENG019	SWAGATIKA PRIYADARSHINI PANDA
20	25ENG020	JYOTI BEHERA
21	25ENG021	AISWARYA SMRUTI RASHMI NATH
22	25ENG022	IBRAHIM SABAR
23	25ENG023	R SMARANIKA
24	25ENG024	SWAYAM SIDHA MOHANTY
25	25ENG025	SUBRAT KUMAR ROUL
26	25ENG026	AJIT PRADHAN
27	25ENG027	SANDEEP KUMAR PANDA
28	25ENG028	ATISHREYA CHHOTARAY
29	25ENG029	RAJASHRI RAJ NANDINI
30	25ENG030	PORAINI MARNDI
31	25ENG031	TIRUMALA TUO
32	25ENG032	PRAGYANSHREE PRIYADARSHINI HOTA
33	25ENG033	NIKITA MEHER
34	25ENG034	JHARANA DASH
35	25ENG035	MERINA ROUTRAY
36	25ENG036	ALOK KUMAR SAHOO
37	25ENG037	ABHIPSA SAHOO
38	25ENG038	SANIA AFROZ
39	25ENG039	RUPAK KUMAR NAYAK
40	25ENG040	PRITI PRADHAN

MENTOR-MENTEE

Mentor: Prof. A. R. Parhi

Email: asim.parhi@gmail.com

Mobile No. 9436049121

Sl No.	Roll No.	Name of the student
1.	22 ENG 011	Pulak Priyadarshan Nayak
2.	22 ENG 017	Aishwarya Tripathy
3.	22 ENG 018	Ananya Sethy
4.	22 ENG 029	Asim Parida
5.	22 ENG 043	Itismita Maharana
6.	22 ENG 047	Nilanjana Mahapatra
7.	22 ENG 051	Jadumani Behera
8.	22 ENG 053	Ankit Tirkey

Mentor: Dr. Tanutrushna Panigrahi

Email: <tanutrushna@utkaluniversity.ac.in>

Mobile No. 8144494339

Sl No.	Roll No.	Name of the student
1.	22 ENG 002	Sonali Pradhan
2.	22 ENG 005	Ateety Muskan Kujur
3.	22 ENG 008	Krishna Agrawal
4.	22 ENG 010	Dhriti Suryavanshi
5.	22 ENG 012	Adyasha Tripathy
6.	22 ENG 013	Bandana Tandi
7.	22 ENG 033	Aryan Pattanaik
8.	22 ENG 044	Raj kishor Singh
9.	22 ENG 049	Sarita Priyadarshini Das

Mentor: Pulastya Jani

Email: pulastya.jani@gmail.com

Mobile No. 9668735524

Sl No.	Roll No.	Name of the student
1.	22 ENG 004	Pallavi Priyadarshini
2.	22 ENG 009	Blossom Kumar Sahoo
3.	22 ENG 024	Reetu Lakra
4.	22 ENG 028	Rojalini Biswal
5.	22 ENG 0034	Sugyani Sucharita
6.	22 ENG 040	Roshnirani Behera
7.	22 ENG 048	Rajashree Jena
8.	22 ENG 052	Rose Naik
9.	22 ENG 055	Satabdi Mahana

Mentor: Dr. S. Deepika

Email: sdeepika.engl@utkaluniversity.ac.in

Mobile No. 8338934974

Sl No.	Roll No.	Name of the student
1.	22 ENG 014	Banamali Biswal
2.	22 ENG 015	Swetalina Nanda
3.	22 ENG 037	Manisha Khora
4.	22 ENG 038	Lipsa Khatei
5.	22 ENG 039	Sushree Sangeeta Lenka
6.	22 ENG 041	Prayaslaxmi Nath
7.	22 ENG 045	Khitija Tanmayee Jena
8.	22 ENG 050	Mangal Sing
9.	22 ENG 056	Srestha Tripathy

LIST OF MA ENGLISH STUDENTS (ADMISSION SESSION 2025-26)

Sl.No	Dept. Roll No	Name of the Student
1	25ENG001	RITIKA KANHAR
2	25ENG002	BAIBHAV KANHAR
3	25ENG003	SWAYAM RAJ DORA
4	25ENG004	ASHWATI SAHU
5	25ENG005	GARIMA MISRA
6	25ENG006	PRAGYAN PARIMITA SAHOO
7	25ENG007	BIPLABI BIJAYEENI SAHOO
8	25ENG008	ABINASH KUMAR NAHAK
9	25ENG009	PARAKANTA PRADHAN
10	25ENG010	SUBHAM SINGH
11	25ENG011	SWAGATIKA NAYAK
12	25ENG012	KAUSALYA DAS
13	25ENG013	RASMITA XALXO
14	25ENG014	BISWAJIT BISWAL
15	25ENG015	SWASTI PRAVA MALLICK
16	25ENG016	PAWANI BASA
17	25ENG017	SWARNALATA INDWAR
18	25ENG018	PALLABI JOSHI NAYAK
19	25ENG019	SWAGATIKA PRIYADARSHINI PANDA
20	25ENG020	JYOTI BEHERA
21	25ENG021	AISWARYA SMRUTI RASHMI NATH
22	25ENG022	IBRAHIM SABAR
23	25ENG023	R SMARANIKA
24	25ENG024	SWAYAM SIDHA MOHANTY
25	25ENG025	SUBRAT KUMAR ROUL
26	25ENG026	AJIT PRADHAN
27	25ENG027	SANDEEP KUMAR PANDA
28	25ENG028	ATISSHREYA CHHOTARAY
29	25ENG029	RAJASHRI RAJ NANDINI
30	25ENG030	PORAINI MARNDI
31	25ENG031	TIRUMALA TUDU
32	25ENG032	PRAGYANSHREE PRIYADARSHINI HOTA
33	25ENG033	NIKITA MEHER
34	25ENG034	JHARANA DASH
35	25ENG035	MERINA ROUTRAY
36	25ENG036	ALOK KUMAR SAHOO
37	25ENG037	ABHIPSA SAHOO
38	25ENG038	SANIA AFROZ
39	25ENG039	RUPAK KUMAR NAYAK
40	25ENG040	RUCHISMITA PRADHAN

Alumni

The English Department strongly believes that good alumni relations benefit alumni as well as the institution.
If the organisation supports the alumni in their professional and personal lives through activities such as the
facilitation of social and professional networks, preferential access to on-campus expertise and facilities they
are likely to be the loyal life-long supporters. Institutional support may also help the alumni achieve positions
of success and influence, which will in turn benefit the institution as they begin to give back. By helping the
institution become bigger, stronger and more successful, alumni are also enhancing the value of their own degree
qualifications.

The Department boasts of a richly diverse community of very successful professionals, academics, leaders who
passed through its portals. Alumni Association of the Department (Sansparsh) was constituted in 2015 and is yet
to be registered.

Below is a select list of the eminent alumni who have brought glory to the department:

Satyananda Mishra, I.A.S., Retired, Formerly Chief Information Commissioner, Govt. of India
Ashok Acharya, I.R.S, Retired Chief Commissioner of Income Tax
Srimoy Kar, Resident Editor, New Indian Express
Yasodhara Mishra, Poet and Novelist
Sura Prasad Rath, Professor of English, University of North Texas, Dallas, USA
Rupashree Nanda, Senior Reporter CNN-IBN
Ranendra Pratap Swain, Member, Odisha Legislative Assembly

Research Scholars:
Saswati Pattnaik, Sanjib Sahu, Subhashree Pattnaik,
Sachit Mishra, Agniva Roy, Prarthana Swain

Research Supervisors:
Prof. Asima Ranjan Parhi, Dr. S. Deepika

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