Department of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University

Deadline Extended! Send in your application before 19th March 11:59 PM.

The Department of English at Ashoka university invites your for 2022 PhD applications.

The English Department is excited to invite you all for a public talk hosted as the concluding event of the Wendy Doniger Reading Group. The reading group, organized by the English PhD cohort, was active during this Spring semester where conversations ranged from sexuality to religion to history writing in Hinduism.

The registration link for the event is enclosed below:

Date: 08 May 2021
Time: 7:30 PM IST | 10 AM EDT

Registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uIeizIIpSVmbngYO8wnT8A

The Department of English and Creative Writing is delighted to invite you to:

A discussion with Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, on The Book of Indian Essays
https://zoom.us/j/94589336988?pwd=SDJaQmh2c2hIb3haZDNFQlFUSGpEZz09
Passcode: 127809

And live on Ashoka's YouTube channel
https://youtu.be/tgnr4_SY5mk

Zoom link for 27th March'21, Please join us at 7 PM on the link shared below

https://zoom.us/j/94875798107?pwd=a1hHODhUT3dHN2Jja0lGbFpvWSt5dz09

The 6th Symposium in the ‘Literary Activism’ series: ‘Decolonisation’

20th and 21st March 2021

Hosted by Ashoka University, in partnership with TORCH, Oxford University, and
the India Oxford Initiative

Hurry Up ! The last day to submit your PhD application.

"Applications opening for the Ph.D. Programme in English for the session starting August 2021.
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For more information, visit our
website: https://ashoka.edu.in/page/phd-english-101"

Dear All,

We're having another set of talks on mysticism this coming Monday at 8:30 pm Subho will be speaking in this one, so please do come! See below for the information as well as the attachment for the full schedule of talks of this month.

The Department of English and Creative Writing, in collaboration with Hindvi, the Hindi-Urdu Literary Society, is delighted to invite you to:

A discussion of the work of Kunwar Narain
https://zoom.us/j/94823856904

And live on Ashoka's YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VQccHRuQu4

Dear all,

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra lost his mother this morning, so with deep sadness, we announce the cancellation of the event this evening.

We will announce an appropriate later date for this event as circumstances allow.

The Department of English and Creative Writing is delighted to invite you to:

A discussion with Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, on The Book of Indian Essays
https://zoom.us/j/91683747138

And live on Ashoka's YouTube channel
https://youtu.be/fzPPnf8zKuI

The Editor: ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA is one of India’s finest poets. He is also an internationally reputed translator and the country’s most respected anthologist. Collections of his essays, Partial Recall and Translating the Indian Past, have been published to wide critical acclaim and his latest book, Selected Poems and Translations (NYRB), was shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry.



In conversation with Saikat Majumdar, Professor of English & Creative Writing, Ashoka University

"Applications opening for the Ph.D. Programme in English for the session starting August 2021.
Spread the word!

For more information, visit our
website: https://ashoka.edu.in/page/phd-english-101"