The Dinner Party Reimagined: Bringing Forgotten Voices to the Global Table is an Art Installation by the Department of English, Tezpur University, commemorating the 44th anniversary of the first stage production of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (28 August 1982). It is inspired by the first act of the play and by Judy Chicago's monumental 1979 feminist artwork The Dinner Party. It honours and celebrates the courage, resilience and excellence of select Indian women, who have been largely forgotten, along with some global and well-known icons.
The Department of English (formerly the Department of English and Foreign Languages) was established on 16 July 1994 with a Diploma programme in English Language Teaching. The current two-year M.A. programme in English began in January 1997. The department offered introductory foreign language courses in German (2001), Chinese (2003), and French (2007) until the establishment of a separate Department of Foreign Languages in 2019. An M.A. programme in Linguistics and Language Technology was introduced in 2012 and a Centre for Endangered Languages, identified as the cluster head of a consortium of universities in the Northeast, was founded in 2014. A separate Department of Linguistics and Language Technology was started in 2022.
Currently, the Department of English runs the following academic programmes: MA in English, Integrated M.A. in English, and Ph.D.
The Team:
Akangsha, Nazmeen, Tejashree, Kristi, Joyeeta, Danny, Riya, Salma, Neeharika, Sayahnika, Arunabh and the Integrated MA 1st semester boys