Background and Foundation:
The Department of English was established in the year 1963 and B.A Honours in English was started in 1995. M.A in English was started in 2018. Over the years it has been trying hard for teaching the English Literature and the Language among students of the region.
Highlights
- The department has good collection of books (about 2200) in the Central Library and in the Departmental Library.
- There is a Video Archive of movies, documentaries and music collections. It publishes an online magazine The Golden Line, ISSNs 2395-1583 (Print) & 2395-1591 (Online).
- The department regularly organizes seminars, workshops, surveys etc.
- The department is fully ICT-enabled and the teachers make use of the latest technology for teaching literature and language. Students can access the internet at the department.
- Departmental results of last three consecutive years for honours students.
| Year | Appeared | Passed | Percentage |
| 2019 | 71 | 70 | 99 |
| 2020 | 49 | 49 | 100 |
| 2021 | 66 | 66 | 100 |
Course Offered :
| UG | B.A. in English (Hons. & Gen.) |
| PG |
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| Certificate | Three Months’ Certificate Course in Functional English |
Intake Capacity :
| Course Offered | Intake Capacity | General | OBC-A | OBC-B | SC | ST | PWD |
| English Honours | 120 | 63 | 25 | 07 | 11 | 08 | 06 |
| M.A. in English | 50 | 26 | 05 | 04 | 11 | 03 | 01 |
Contact
Mail: ttm1974@adminbcol
Name of HOD: Tarun Tapas Mukherjee
Faculty Members of the Department of English
| Name & Qualification | Designation | Specialization |
| Prof. Tarun Tapas Mukherjee, M.A. | Assistant Professor & HOD | American Literature |
| Prof. Mir Ahammad Ali, M.A. | Assistant Professor | Partition Literature & Psychoanalysis |
| Sri Thakurdas Jana, M.A., M. Phil. | SACT-I | Indian Writings in English |
| Smt. Pragati Das, M.A. | SACT-II | Dalit Literature |
| Sri Asish Kumar Charan M.A. | SACT-I | |
| Sri Akasdip Dey, M.A. | SACT-II | Indian Writings in English |
| Sri Niladri Mahapatra, M.A. | SACT-I | American Literature |
| Smt. Kaberi Das Mahapatra, M.A. | SACT-II | American Literature |
| Sri Sourav Mishra, M.A. | SACT-II | American Literature |
Link of Syllabus
No. of Collection of Departmental Library
Table-2
| Book | 821 |
| Journals/Magazines |
Seminars/Webinars/Conferences/Workshops Organized by the Department
| Title/Topic | Year | Type (Seminar/Workshop) | Level |
| National Seminar on “Preserving Tribal Heritage through Creative Writings” Funded by Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, 19.12.2014 | 2014, December 19 | Seminar | national |
| Students’ Seminar on English Language Teaching, 2015 | 2015, September 5 | Seminar | Departmental |
| National Seminar on “Contemporary Women Writings in Eastern Regional Languages” on 26-27 September 2016 at Bhatter College, Dantan, West Midnapur, West Bengal. | 2016, 26-27 September | Seminar | National |
| Teachers’ Day Seminar, 16 September 2016 | 2016, 16 September | Seminar | Departmental |
| Special Talk by Subhashis Das on “The Megalithic Heritage of the Tribals of Jharkhand”, 31 March, 2017 | 2017, 31 March | Special Talk | National |
| Teachers’ Day Seminar, 16 September 2017 | 2017 | Seminar | Departmental |
| International Seminar on “Water, Heritage, and Performance: Dramatising Our Futures” , by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD, University of Washington, Bothell, USA, 22 March, 2018 | 2018, 22 March | Seminar | International |
| International Workshop on “Messages from Medinipur: Culture, Heritage, and the Shape of Stories to Come”, by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD, University of Washington, Bothell, USA, 22 March, 2018 | 2018, 22 March | Workshop | International |
| Teachers’ Day Seminar, 20 September 2018, | 2018, 20 September | Seminar | Departmental |
| Seminar on “Theatre and Performance Studies”, at the Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan on 09 February, 2018 | 2018, 09 February | Seminar | State level |
| Tarun Tapas Mukherjee organized: 1st Rupkatha International Open Conference on Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Humanities (Virtual), In collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences & Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences | 2020, August 20, 21, 22 | Conference | International |
| Tarun Tapas Mukherjee organized: 2nd Rupkatha International Open Conference on Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Humanities, 2021 (Virtual) August 28-30, 2021, Organized by Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, (Indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, ERIHPLUS, EBSCO, UGC) In collaboration with The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, Department of German Studies & The University of Talca, Chile, Institute of Humanistic Studies | 2021, August. 28, 29, 30 | Conference | International |
| Mir Ahammad Ali: Organized 1st ANINDA BASU ROY MEMORIAL LECTURE (Online) on “Polycoloniality and the Plural Strands of Decolonization” on 21 October 2021 at (7:00 PM to 9:00 PM) via Google Meet. Speaker: Prof. Saugata Bhaduri, Professor of English, Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi as the Secretary of the Alumni Association Department of English, Vidyasagar University Midnapore – 721102, West Bengal | 2021, 21 October | Invited lecture | National |
| Mir Ahammad Ali: Organized an online Lecture (no. 1 of Lecture Series on Theatre and Performance Studies) entitled “বর্তমান সমাজে নাটকের প্রাসঙ্গিকতা” delivered by Prof Tarun Kumar Pradhan, Dept of Drama, Rabindra Bharati University on 28.04.2021(Wednesday) at 8 PM as the Coordinator of the Centre for Performance Studies, Bhatter College, Dantan | 2021, 2021 | Invited lecture | State level |
| Organized a special online lecture entitled “Introduction to English Language Teaching” delivered by Dr Subhasis Nanda, Asst Professor, Dept of English, GITAM, Hyderabad on March 18, 2021 via ZOOM platform (online). | 2021, March 18 | Special Lecture | State level |
| 1st Bhatter College International Conference on Recent Advances in English Studies, in collaboration with Central University of Haryana & Yonphula Centenary College, Royal University of Bhutan | 2021, July 03-04 | Conference | International |
Any Other Departmental Activities:
Field Surveys
| 2018 | Field trip to Naya: Documenting Dalit and Tribal Cultural Texts, 28 October, 2018 |
| 2019 | Field trip to Naya: Documenting Dalit and Tribal Cultural Texts during Patamaya Festival, 16 November, 2019 |
| 2019 | Departmental participation in night-long festival of contemporary performing and collaborative arts organized by Trimukhi Platform at Nayagram, Paschim Medinipur, directed by Jean-Frédéric Chevallier |
| 2018 to present | The departmental teachers collect prehistoric and early medieval potsherds and other cultural materials through extensive survey of various places of Dantan. The collected materials are deposited with the Bhatter College Museum. |
Coaching for Competitive Exams
The department organizes coaching for
- NET/SET
- WBSSC English and Primary TET
- M.A Entrance Exams
Departmental publication:
The Department publishes an online magazine, The Golden Line: a Magazine of English Literature ISSN: 2395-1591 [Online] ISSN: 2395-1583 [Print]. Link: http://goldenline.bhattercollege.ac.in/
So far it has published the following issues:
- Volume 1, Number 1, January, 2015. Inaugural Issue. Ed. Tarun Tapas Mukherjee
- Volume 1, Number 2, January, 2015. General Issue. Ed. Tarun Tapas Mukherjee
- Vol. 1, No. 3, 2015, Special Issue on W.B. Yeats, guest-edited by Dr. Zinia Mitra, Naxalbari College, Darjeeling
- Volume 2, 2016, Special Issue on Old and Middle English Literature. Guest-edited by Dr Santanu Ganguly, Netaji Nagar Day College, Kolkata
- Volume 3, Number 1, 2020, Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder in Arts, Literature and Culture, Ed. Thakurdas Jana
- Volume 4, Number 1, 2021, Themed Issue on The Performativity of Masks in Theatre and Culture. Ed. Mir Ahammad Ali
Video Archive
The department has a Video Archive of movies, documentaries and music collections.