Department Of English
Department Of English
Complete PhDs, Department of English (Last updated on 18 June 2026)
| Sl.No | Research Scholar | Supervisor | Title | Year of submission |
| 1 | Tapti Roy | Dr. Saba Mahmood Bashir | Gender Subtexts of Colonial Medicine in Select Works of Banaphool | 2025 |
| 2 | Azharuddin Sahaji | Prof. Anuradha Ghosh | Tagore's Translation and Reception in Hindi: A Study of Select Novels | 2025 |
| 3 | Sakshi Dogra | Prof. Simi Malhotra | Food, Feelings and Flavors: A Study of Contemporary Indian Writing in English on Food | 2025 |
| 4 | Steven S George | Prof Nishat Zaidi | Identity and Alienation: A Double Paradox in Literature of Dalit Christians in Kerala | 2025 |
| 5 | Kashish Dua | Prof Nishat Zaidi | Queering Citizenship: A Critical Study of Select Texts in Post Independence India | 2025 |
| 6 | Grace Mariam Raju | Prof Nishat Zaidi | Subaltern Cosmopolitanism in Kochi: Re-Examining the City as Decolonial Space | 2025 |
| 7 | Tanushri Banerjee | Dr Shuby Abidi | Identity and Trauma: The Study of Select Narratives of South Asian Diaspora Cinema | 2025 |
| 8 | Indrajit | Dr A C Kharingpam | Configurations of Exile in Select Novels of Milan Kundera | 2025 |
| 9 | Gulbahar Shah | Prof Asaduddin | Problematizing Representation of Trauma: A Comparative Analysis of Graphic Narratives by Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman | 2025 |
| 10 | Ruchi Nagpal | Prof Ameena Kazi Ansari | Theorizing Flash Fiction : A Study of Postmodern Perspective(s) | 2024 |
| 11 | Syed Sumaira Gilani | Prof Mukesh Ranjan | Defying the Margins: A Comparative Study of the Fictional Worlds of Buchi Emecheta and Chamamanda Ngozi Adichie | 2023 |
| 12 | Suab Ahmed | Dr Asmat Jahan | Interrogating Identity, History and Culture: An Analysis of Select Contemporary Texts | 2024 |
| 13 | Shraddha Adityavir Singh | Prof Simi Malhotra | Posthumanism and the Anthropocene in Margaret Atwood's Select Speculative Fiction | 2024 |
| 14 | Aditi Sharma | Prof Mukesh Ranjan | Mapping Urbanisation of Delhi: An Analysis of Selected Works of Fiction and Non-Fiction | 2025 |
| 15 | Saneya | Prof Simi Malhotra | Begumati Zubaan :Voice of a Subculture | 2024 |
| 16 | Elaheh Ghasempour | Prof Mukesh Ranjan | Representations of Imperialism in Select Works of Simin Daneshvar, Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Mahmoud Dowlat Abadi | 2024 |
| 17 | Sarah Mariam | Prof M. Asaduddin | A Study of Habib Tanvir as Translator | 2023 |
| 18 | Ishita | Dr Saroj K. Mahananda | Identity and Desire in Select Plays of Mohan Rakesh | 2024 |
| 19 | Suman Bhagchandani | Prof Simi Malhotra | Bodies in Motion: Performer, Performance and Performativity in Kathak | 2024 |
| 20 | Zahra Rizvi | Prof Simi Malhotra | Gamers in the ‘Bad Place’: A Study of Select Young Adult Dystopian Fiction | 2024 |
| 21 | Balram Panda | Dr Saroj K. Mahananda | Revisiting Cultural Consciousness through Koshali Folklores: A Study of Select Works of Haladhar Nag | 2024 |
| 22 | Sabrina Mehraj | Dr Saroj K. Mahananda | Memory, Body Politics and Identity: A Study of Select Dalit Women's Life Writings | 2024 |
| 23 | Vasundhara Gautam | Dr Ivy Imogene Hansdak | Marginalization, Identity and Representation: A Study of Haryanvi Women Folksongs | 2024 |
| 24 | Ruchi Nagpal | Prof Ameena Kazi Ansari | Theorizing Flash Fiction: A Study of Postmodern Perspective(s) | 2024 |
| 25 | Suab Ahmad | Dr Asmat Jahan | Interrogating Identity, History and Culture: An Analysis of Select Contemporary Texts of South Asian Diaspora in England | 2024 |
| 26 | Kalyanee Rajan | Prof M. Asaduddin | Discourses of Womanhood: A Comparative study of select works of Ismat Chughtai and Ambai | 2024 |
| 27 | Ann Susan Aleyas | Prof Simi Malhotra | Conversing History: A Study of Select Folk Traditions of Southist Christians | 2024 |
| 28 | Roomy F. Naqvy | Prof. Mukesh Ranjan | Imaging Self, Community and Nation: A Study of Parsi Writing of the 20th Century | 2024 |
| 29 | Bhawna Shrey | Prof Anuradha Ghosh | Interrogating Feminism/s: A Study of the 'Politics of Exchange' in Hollywood Productions Post '90s | 2024 |
| 30 | Mansi Grover | Dr Ivy Imogene Hansdak | Representation of Disability in Women in Hindi Cinema since the 1970s | 2023 |
| 31 | Suraiya Shahin | Dr Shimi Moni Doley | Women's Subversive Identities and Subjectivities In Nigerian Society: A Study of the Select Works of Ifeoma Okoye and Flora Nwapa | 2023 |
| 32 | Sango Bidani | Prof. Anuradha Ghosh | A Critical Study of the Cinematic Adaptations of Devdas in the Indian Subcontinent | 2023 |
| 33 | Manjeera G | Prof. Baran Farooqi | The Persistence of Dystopian/Utopian Spaces in Popular Imagination: An Analysis of the Apocalypse in Young Adult Dystopia | 2023 |
| 34 | Md. Faizan Moqium | Prof. Baran Farooqi | Aesthetics of Dissonance: A Study of Khalid Jawed’s Art of Fiction | 2023 |
| 35 | Marilyn Thomas | Prof. Baran Farooqi | Clothing and Gender Implications in Shakespearean Drama | 2023 |
| 36 | Indrani Dasgupta | Prof. Nishat Zaidi | Social Vision of Science Fiction in Modern India: A Study of Select Texts | 2023 |
| 37 | Arif Nisar | Prof. Baran Farooqi | Articulating Discontent: A Study of Kashmiri Folklore | 2023 |
| 38 | Anab Naiyer | Prof. Baran Farooqi | Desire and Domesticity: Studying Contemporary Print Culture of Urdu Digests in North India | 2023 |
| 39 | Inderpreet Kaur | Prof. Saroj Kumar Mahananda | Depiction of Dalits in Contemporary Hindi Cinema | 2023 |
| 40 | Anusha Halim | Dr. Shubhy Abidi | Ideology, Violence and Resistance in the Fiction of Mohammed Hanif and Nadeem Islam | 2023 |
| 41 | Shreya Singh | Prof. Saroj Kumar Mahananda | Revisiting Dalithood in the works of Meena Kandasamy and Sujatha Gidla | 2023 |
| 42 | Mirza Sadaf Fatima | Dr. Ivy K. Hansdak | Globalization, Identity and Muslim Woman: A Study of Select Texts of Tehmina Durrani, Leila Abouzeid and Mohja Kahf | 2023 |
| 43 | Disha Pokhriyal | Prof. Baran Farooqi | Women, Writing and Discoveries of a Powerful Self | 2023 |
| 44 | Shabeeh Rahat | Prof. Ameena K. Ansari | Postcolonialism and Indian English Writing: Text, Context, Theory | 2023 |
| 45 | Sombir Sharma | Prof. Mukesh Ranjan | A Critical Evaluation of Premchand’s Non-Fiction Writings | 2022 |
| 46 | Rupleena Bose | Prof. Anuradha Ghosh | The city Minstrel: Urban Music from Bengal, 1992-2002 | 2022 |
| 47 | Mehak Burza | Prof. Baran Farooqi | Literary Representations of the Holocaust: An Assessment | 2022 |
| 48 | Kanika Gandhi | Dr. Shuby Abidi | Writing in Self: The Study of Select English Texts by Pakistani Women | 2022 |
| 49 | Pratibha | Dr. Shuby Abidi | Self and Community in Autobiographical Narratives by Dalit Women in the English Translation | 2022 |
| 50 | Md. Shalim Muktadir Hussain | Prof. Anuradha Ghosh | The Contribution of Translation to the Shaping of an Assamese Literary Aesthetic | 2022 |
| 51 | Nida Eqbal | Dr. Asmat Jahan | Representation of Men and Masculinities in the Works of Ismat Chughtai | 2022 |
| 52 | Mona Sinha | Prof. Ameena Kazi Ansari | Imaging Indian Woman in the New Millennium: A Study of Select Hindi Soap Operas and Reality Television | 2022 |
| 53 | Mohd. Ashraf Bhat | Prof. Mukesh Ranjan | Satirical Mode in the Post-independence African Novel: A Study of the Selected Works of Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Ayi Kwei Armah | 2022 |
| 54 | Sananda Roy | Prof. Mohd. Asaduddin | Adaptation and Ideology: A Study of Rituparno Ghosh’s Films | 2022 |
| 55 | Aisha Mohammad Shamsuddin | Dr. Asmat Jahan | A Study of the Emergence of Superhero in India | 2021 |
| 56 | Ipshita Nath | Prof. Nishat Zaidi | The Making of the ‘Memsahib’: Studying Memsahibs of Colonial India, and Their Representation in Postcolonial Literature | 2021 |
| 57 | Pisharody Rajitha Venugopal | Prof. Ameena Kazi Ansari | Presenting ‘An/Other America’: A Study of Select Works by Barbara Kingsolver | 2021 |
| 58 | Jennifer Monteiro | Prof. Nishat Zaidi | Representation of Masculinity and Men in Contemporary Feminist Theatre in India: A Study of Select Indian Women Playwrights | 2021 |
| 59 | Lama Jamal Eddin Jneidy | Prof. Ameena Kazi Ansari | Travelling to Damascus: The Image of the City in Select English Narratives from the Colonial Era | 2021 |
| 60 | AC Kharingpam | Prof Simi Malhotra | The Cultural and Literary Impact of the Bible on the Tangkhul Nagas: A Study in Shifting Narrative | 2021 |
| 61 | Tasneem Q Khan | Prof M. Asaduddin | Dissident Narratives: The Complex World of Muslim Protagonist in Popular Hindi Cinema | 2020 |
| 62 | Aateka Khan | Dr. Ivy I. Hansdak | A Critical Evaluation of Richard Burton’s Travel Writings | 2020 |
| 63 | Neelam Pandey | Prof. Ameena Kazi Ansari (co-supervisor: Prof Anisur Rahman) | The Problematic of Constructing and Disseminating New Knowledge: Interrogating Publishing Industry and Readership in India | 2020 |
| 64 | Anubhav Pradhan | Prof. Baran Farooqi | Imaging the Subcontinent Colonial Realism and the Ethnographic Writing of British India | 2020 |
| 65 | Ali Rafiei | Prof. M. Asaduddin | Sa’di in English: Translation and Reception | 2020 |
| 66 | Shaifta Ayoub | Dr. Asmat Jahan | History, Culture, Identity and Gender: Kashmir Conflict in Contemporary Texts | 2020 |
| 67 | Mubashir Karim | Prof Nishat Zaidi | Author/Reader Nexus and Metafiction: A Case Study of Select Self-Reflexive Novels | 2020 |
| 68 | Saba Zahoor | Prof Nishat Zaidi | Identity Crisis or Identity in Crisis? Interrogating Subjectivity in Select Writings of Joseph Heller | 2020 |
| 69 | Anamta Rizvi | Prof Nishat Zaidi | Language, Identity and Authority: Canon Formation in Indian Writing in English post-1950 and the Contribution of Writers Workshop, Calcutta | 2020 |
| 70 | Chaandreyi Mukherjee | Prof Ameena Kazi Ansari | Dark Sweethearts: Postmodern Women in Haruki Murakami’s Fiction | 2020 |
| 71 | Shaheen Saba | Prof M. Asaduddin | Approaches and Strategies of Dastan translation: A Critical Study of Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s Translation of Dastan-e-Amir Hamza | 2020 |
| 72 | Samea Haleem | Prof. Baran Farooqi | A Critical Study of Caryl Churchill’s Select Plays | 2019 |
| 73 | Shailendra Kumar Singh | Prof. M. Asaduddin | Conformity and Resistance in the Select Fictions of Premchand | 2019 |
| 74 | Satadru Chatterjee | Prof. Simi Malhotra | License to Frame: Representation of the Political Other in James Bond Novels | 2019 |
| 75 | Mohammad Al Zayed | Prof. Anuradha Ghosh | From ‘History to Myth’ and ‘Myth to History’: Re/Presenting ‘Resistance’ in Cross-Cultural Modes | 2019 |
| 76 | Uttara Bisht | Prof. Simi Malhotra | Suicide of the Author: A Study of the Personal Writings of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath | 2019 |
| 77 | Shiv Kumar | Prof. Mukesh Ranjan | A Study of Self-Reflexivity in Select Dalit Writings | 2019 |
| 78 | Shimi Moni Doley | Dr. Ivy Imogene Hansdak (co-supervisor: Prof Anisur Rahman) | Chimera of the Self: African American Female Subjectivities and the Politics of Life Writing | 2019 |
| 79 | Devika Mehra | Prof. Anuradha Ghosh | A Study of Transitions and Emergent Trends in Children’s Cinema as a Genre in India | 2019 |
| 80 | Shradha Kabra | Prof. Simi Malhotra | Whose “Real is it anyway”? A Study of Indian Reality Television Shows | 2019 |
| 81 | Shabeena Kuttay | Prof. Ameena Kazi Ansari | Interrogating the Postcolonial Intellectual, Activist and Writer: A Critical Reading of Arundhati Roy’s Non-Fictional Works | 2018 |
| 82 | Megha Jain | Prof. Mukesh Ranjan | Representation of Gender Bias: A Study of Three Indian English Women Playwrights | 2018 |
| 83 | Sarfaraz Nawaz | Dr. Shuby Abidi | Shifting Identities in the fiction of Bharati Mukherjee | 2018 |
| 84 | Jigyasa Hasija | Prof. Baran Farooqi | ‘Greening’ Films and Feminism: The Environment in Movies through Ecofeminism | 2018 |
| 85 | Sadia Parveen | Prof. Nishat Zaidi | Narratives of Resistance: A Study of Select Indian Muslim Women Writers of the Twentieth Century | 2018 |
| 86 | Kajal Tehri | Dr. Asmat Jahan | Patriarchal and Nationalistic Rhetoric: Representation of Partition in Select South Asian Writers | 2018 |
| 87 | Asiya Zahoor | Prof Mukesh Ranjan | Revisiting Representations: A Study of Select Writings by Kashmir Displaced Writers | 2018 |
| 88 | Bharti Arora | Prof. Nishat Zaidi | Writing Gender, Writing Nation: A Critical Study of Select Women's Fiction in Post-independence India | 2017 |
| 89 | Sina Tavassoli | Prof. Baran Farooqi | Space as a Motif for Power and Identity in Selected Plays of Harold Pinter | 2017 |
| 90 | Sanjib Kumar Baishya | Prof M Asaduddin/ Prof. Simi Malhotra | Theatre and the Popular: A Study of the Bhramyamaan Theatre in Assam | 2017 |
| 91 | Rajesh Kumar | Dr. Shuby Abidi / Prof. Anisur Rahman | History, Memory and Myth: A Study of Diasporic Constructions in the Poetry of A.K. Ramanujan | 2017 |
| 92 | Debosmita Paul | Prof. Nishat Zaidi | The First Partition of Bengal and the Problematic of Indian Nationalism: A Study of Select Bangla Writings (1905-1916) | 2016 |
| 93 | Saman Ashfaq | Prof. Ameena Kazi Ansari | Communalism and Literature in Post-Independence India: A Study of Select Indian Novels in English | 2016 |
| 94 | Saroj Kumar Mahananda | Prof. M. Asaduddin | Works of Basudev Sunani: Oriya Dalit Historiography | 2016 |
| 95 | Darshan Lal | Prof. Mukesh Ranjan | Assertion of Dalit Identity in Dalit Fiction | 2016 |
| 96 | Deepti Zutshi | Prof. Anuradha Ghosh | Between Violence and Silence: A Study of Performance Aesthetics in Manipur | 2015 |
| 97 | Gitanjali Chawla | Prof. Simi Malhotra | From Roots to Routes: A Critical Study of Select Folk Songs of Punjab | 2015 |
| 98 | Kusha Sharma | Prof. Baran Farooqi | A Study of Nadine Gordimer’s Post-Apartheid Writings | 2015 |
| 99 | Sapna Dudeja Taluja | Prof. Simi Malhotra | After Postmodernism: Ethics, Virtuality and Politics | 2015 |
| 100 | Shatarupa Sinha | Prof. Anisur Rahman | Indian English Literature: A Critical Inquiry into Reading Strategies and Pedagogy | 2015 |
| 101 | Ved Parkash | Prof. Mukesh Ranjan | Dialectic Life and Art in the Works of Sylvia Plath | 2015 |
| 102 | Nirmalya Samanta | Prof. Anuradha Ghosh | Folklore as Visual Imaging: A Study of Legends of Childhoods of Krishna, Ganesh and Hanuman in Contemporary India (2000-2010) | 2014 |
| 103 | Sunil Kumar | Prof. Simi Malhotra | Aesthetics, Technology and the Self: Tracing the Theoretical Shift from the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism | 2014 |
| 104 | Urvashi Sabu | Prof. Anisur Rahman | Pakistani Women Poets: Literary Representation and the Dynamics of Religion, Politics, and Society | 2014 |
| 105 | Panchali Mukherjee | Prof. Shyamala A. Narayan | Constructions of History: A Study of the Novels of A.S.P. Ayyar, Manohar Malgonkar and Bhagwan S. Gidwani | 2012 |
| 106 | Asmat Jahan | Prof. Mukesh Ranjan | Reconstructing the Renaissance: A Critical Study of Robert Browning’s Dramatic Monologues | 2012 |
| 107 | Kinshuk Majumdar | Prof. Shyamala A. Narayan | Subject to Rule: The Individual and the State in Amitav Ghosh’s Writings | 2012 |
| 108 | Jayanti Seth | Prof Ameena Kazi Ansari | Autobiography in the Age of Democratic Revolution: A Study with Special Reference to Benjamin Franklin and Jean Jacques Rousseau. | 2011 |
| 109 | Ahmer Nadeem Anwer | Prof S N. H. Jafri | The Menace of Madness: Rationalisation, Franken-science, and the Eighteenth-Century Metaphoricity of Unreason | 2011 |
| 110 | Bhagwant Kour | Prof. S.N.H. Jafri | Women in Modern British Drama: A Study of Selected Plays of John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Doris Lessing and Caryl Churchill | 2008 |
| 111 | Tasneem Shahnaaz | Prof. Anisur Rahman | A Critical Study of Adrienne Rich | 2005 |
| 112 | Payal Khanna | Prof Shymala Narayan | Shifting Paradigms in Culture: A Study of Three Plays by Jean Genet: The Maids, The Balcony, The Blacks | 2005 |
| 113 | Ayesha Irfan | Prof M. Asaduddin | Quest for Black Identity and Self Definition in the Novels of Toni Morrison | 2005 |
| 114 | Yahya Saleh Hasan Dahami | Prof. Anisur Rahman | Revival of Poetic Drama: T. S. Eliot’s Contribution to the Genre | 2004 |
| 115 | Baran Rehman | Prof. S. N. H. Jafri | Early Nineteenth Century Shakespeare Criticism and its Influence on Later Approaches. | 2002 |
| 116 | Jayita Sengupta | Prof. M. Asaduddin | Issue of History and Gender in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Michele Roberts and Anita Desai | 2002 |
| 117 | Ameena Qazi Ansari | Prof. Anisur Rahman | Canadian Literary Canon: Emergence and Development | 2002 |