PhD Guidance
Awarded Ph.D. on 20 Dec 2017: Anindita Bhaumik. "Beyond the Border: Representation of the 'Others' in Wilkie Collins's Sensation Fiction (1859-1869)"
04.12.2013 (Enrolled; abandoned after registration of title). Ayon Halder. Sacred-Secular Binary in Select Nineteenth-century Bengali Texts .
04.02.2015 (Enrolled; abandoned after registration of title). Nitish S. Bhooshetty. "Towards the Standardization of Kannada Language: A Study of the Linguistic, Social and Literary Movements during British Colonial Period."
19.02.2016: Ph.D. (Enrolled and subsequently abandoned). Kamrunnesa Khatun.
2018-2025: Awarded Ph.D. on 28 Jan 2025: Sougata Chakraborty. "Use of Folk Tradition in the Proscenium Theatre Performances in West Bengal (2001-2022)".
27 January 2023: (Date of admission) Abhik Pal (UGC-JRF) Title A Necropolitical Reading of Select Indian Emergency Fiction registered on 28 Feb 2024. Completed Ph.D. coursework
22 Nov 2023: (Date of admission) Arindam Biswas (UGC-JRF); Title not yet registered
22 Nov 2023: (Date of admission) Madhabi Barman (NFSC fellow); Title not yet registered
Master's Thesis ( A select list)
2013: Sougata Chakraborty: "The Artist, the Audience and the Cultural 'New': A Study of Contemporary Bengali Music
2014: Souvik Dasgupta: Shrek: Shrieks Against Stereotyping/ Politicizing of Fairy Tales
2014: Kaberi Roy: Nature or Culture? Clash and Cross-over in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
2015: Noureen Chowdhury: Quest for Identity in Relationship in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies
2015: Ardhendu Debnath: Representation of Oppressed People through Nonsense in Select Poems of Abol Tabol
2019: Anima Basak: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Select Partition Narratives.
2019: Arkadeep Mitra: Kashmir: A Territory of Lost Identity.
2022: Nisarga Sinha: The Waste Land and "1946-47": A Comparative Spectacle of Modern Man's Poetic Passage.
2022: Somdatta Saha: Similar Concepts and Beyond: Residence, Food and Guardianship in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Emma.
External Expert for Evaluation of Dissertation
2013: D.Tech. (Language Practice): Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
2013: Ph.D. :Department of English, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.
2015: M.Phil. Department of English, University of Hyderabad.
2016, 2018: M.Phil. Department of English, University of Calcutta.
2023 Ph.D. Department of English, Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad