English

1.       Name of the department: Department of English

2.       Year of Establishment: 1967

3.       Names of   Programmes/Courses offered: B. A. and M.A

4.       Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise): Choice Based   Credit System

5.       Number of teaching posts:

	Sanctioned	Filled
Professors	00	00
Associate Professors	01	01
Asst. Professors	03	03

6.       Faculty profile:

Name	Qualification	Designation	Specialization	No. of Years of Experience
Dr. Arvindkumar  A. Kamble	M.A. SET, Ph.D.	Head and Associate Professor	Translation Studies	24
Dr. Pranav Khoche	M.A. SET, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	Postcolonial Literature	14
Kedare Shital	M.A	Assistant Professor	English	01

7.         Infrastructure Detail:    

Laboratory Name	Area in Sq. Mtrs.	Equipment detail	No.of equipments	Remark
Language Laboratory	750 sq.ft	1) PC2) DVD Player3) Multimedia Speakers4)CD & DVDs	11010115	Enriched Language Laboratory

8.         Workshops/Seminars conducted by department: 

Sr. No	Title of Seminar/workshop/conference	Level (University/State/ National)	Academic Year	Funding Agency
01.	Revised Syllabus of T.Y.B.A. English General Paper-III: Expectations and Challenges	University	2010-11	B.C.U.D. Pune
02	Webinar on ‘Poetry  An Essence of Life’	University	2020-21	Lasalgaon  College

9.         Research Activity: 

• Research projects:

Name of the faculty	Duration	Title of the project	Name of the funding agency	Grant receivedIn Rs.	Status (Minor/ Major)
Dr. Arvindkumar A. Kamble	Two Years	Psychoanalysis of Arthur Miller’s Major Dramas	BCUD, University of Pune	70,000/-	Minor
Dr. Arvindkumar A. Kamble	Two Years	Tradition of Translation in India	UGC	50,000/-	Minor

10)       Publications:

• Research papers:

Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble:

1. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2012). “Psychoanalysis of Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’”. Contemporary Discourse. January 2012. (pp.331-333)
2. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2012). Aravind Adiga’s ‘The White Tiger’: The Postcolonial Narrative”. Research Drops. September 2012 Volume 2-Issue-2. (pp.18-20). 
3. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2014). “The Western Women in Oscar Wilde’s Play ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’”. Research Chronicler. March 2014 Vol.II, Issue III-II. (pp. 185-187).
4. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2014). “Teaching Cultural Values through Shakespeare’s Drama ‘The Merchant of Venice’”. Indian Journal of Research Studies in Social Sciences November-December- 2014 Volume II, Issue 6. (pp. 10-12).
5. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2015). “First and Third World: Politics in Discourse” Contemporary Research in India. September Vol:5 Issue:3 (pp. 178-181).
6. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2015). “The Role of Translation in Transmitting Cultural Values”. October 2015. Literary Endeavour. Volume: VI No: 4. (pp. 80-83).
7. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2015). “Translation Theory: Componential Analysis of Mahesh Elkunchwar’s Drama Old Stone Mansion”. Research Innovator. October 2015 Volume: II Issue: II. (pp. 126-29).
8. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2016). “Translation and Culture in India”. Contemporary Research in India. June 2016 Volume:6 Issue:2. (pp. 64-67).
9. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2018).Transnationality and Culture in Amitav Ghosh’s Novel ‘The Shadow Lines’. Research Journey. February 2018. (pp. 24-26B).
10. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2018).Silence in Amitav Ghosh’s Novel ‘The Callcutta Chromosome’. Research Journey. October 2018. Special Issue 69. (pp.147-49).
11. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2019).Conflict in Indian Culture. Research Journey. March 2019 Volume: V Issue:1 (A). (pp.115-16)
12. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2019). The Island of Silence in Amitav Ghosh’s Novel ‘The Hungry Tide’. Literary Insight. January 2019 Volume 10 Issue 2. (pp229-32).
13. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2020). The Troubled Soul. Studies in Indian Place Names. February 2020 Volume 40 Issue 3. (pp.1252-54)
14. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2020). Who is the Better- Folk or Modern Culture?. Akshar Wangmay. February 2020. Special Issue. (pp.31-32).
15. Dr. Arvindkumar Kamble (2021). Transnational Cultures: Study of Vikram Seth’s Novel ‘From Heaven Lake’. International Journal of Humanities, Law and Social Sciences. Summer 2021. Volume VIII, Issue I. (pp.383-385).

Dr. Pranav Khoche:

1. Dr. Pranav Khoche (2011). “The White Tiger: Orientalism Reversed” Contemporary Discourse June 2011.Volume 2- Issue 2
2. Dr. Pranav Khoche (2012). “Representation of the Marginalised Female Characters in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s story and Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns”. Research Drops September 2012. Volume 2, Issue 2. 
3. Dr. Pranav Khoche (2013). “The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh: Representation of Disinherited and Marginalised. Shouryabhumi. Feb-Apr 2013. Volume 1, Issue 1 (pp 152-155)
4. Dr. Pranav Khoche (2016). “Depiction of Marginalization of the Differently Abled in the Selected Bollywood Movies” Langlit. Feb 2016. Volume 2, Issue 3 (pp 571-576 )
5. Dr. Pranav Khoche (2016). “Literature of the Marginalised with Reference to Contemporary Fiction” Research Journey. Feb 2016. Special Issue 3 (pp 64- 68   )
6. Dr. Pranav Khoche (2017) Shakespeare Today: A Spokesman of the Marginalised” published by Langlit: An International Peer Reviewed Journal (ISSN 2349-5189) in Issue 03, Vol. 4, May 2017 pp.141-147
7. Dr. Pranav Khoche (2017) “Feminist Voices in Contemporary Fiction: Marginalization and Subversion in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns” Published in the souvenir Feminism in Contemporary English Literature (ISBN 978-93-83144-32-7), November 2017 pp. 498-507.
8. Dr. Pranav Khoche (2018) “Indian Caste System and South African Apartheid: Comparative Study of the Facets of Marginalization” published by Research Journey, International Online Journal (ISSN 2348-7143) in Special Issue LVII (B), April 2018 pp.81-87.
9. Dr. Pranav Khoche (2019) “ Narrative of the Marginalised in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow through the Polyphony of Conflicting Voices” published by an International Peer Reviewed Journal Literary Insight (ISSN 0975-6248) in Volume 10, Issue 2, January 2019 pp. 94-99.
10. Dr. Pranav Khoche (2020) ‘Aspects of Marginalization in Contemporary Fiction; Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Khaled Hosseini and Orhan Pamuk’ published by International Peer Reviewed Open Access Journal ‘Langlit’ (ISSN 2349-5189) in Special Issue May 2020 pp.141-147.
11. Dr. Pranav Khoche (2021) ‘From the Sunderbans to Italy: Ecocritical Concerns in The Hungry Tide and Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh’ Published by Kanpur Philosophers: International Journal of Humanities, Law and Sciences (ISSN 2348-8301, UGC CARE Listed) in Volume VIII, Issue I (Summer) 2021 (pp 258-260).

• Books: NIL

11)       Future plans of the department:

1) To encourage students for pursuing postgraduation in English

2) To conduct the departmental activities

3) To do the basic research in English language and literature

4) To conduct the social extension activities

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