Research

Ranjit Kumar Dev Goswami: Criticism, Theory & Poetry

Work supervised / Scholars / Ongoing Projects (2000-2007)

• The Use of the Metanarrative in the Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (by Nandana Dutta, now Professor of English, Gauhati University) Ph.D. awarded in 1998
• The Nature Of Experience in the Novels of Virginia Woolf (by Bibhash Choudhury, now Reader in English, GU) Ph.D. awarded in 2002
• The Novelist as Craftsman : A Study of the Novels of R.K.Narayan (by Nityananda Pattanayak, Lecturer in English, ADP College , Nagaon) Ph.D. awarded in 2004
• Scepticism and Belief in T.S. Eliot's Poetry (by Sanjeev Kumar Nath, now Reader in English, Gauhati University) Ph.D awarded in 2004
• Asamiya Kavitat Adhunikata (Modernity in Assamese Poetry with Special Reference to Four Poets by Kamaluddin Ahmed, Senior Lecturer, Department of Assamese, GU) Ph.D. awarded in 2005
• T.E.Hulme: A Study of His Poetry, Criticism and Influence (by Tora Mahanta, Lecturer in English, Gauhati Commerce College ) Ph.D. awarded in 2008
• Ideas of Language and Linguistics in French Feminism (by Manashi Bora, Lecturer in English, Gauhati University ) Thesis submitted in 2008
• Representation of Class and Gender in Postcolonial Indian Drama: A Study of the Plays of Vijay Tendulkar (by  Pranjal Sharma Basishtha, Lecturer in Assamese, Gauhati University ) Work in progress
• The “Girmitya” Consciousness in V.S. Naipaul’s Fictional and Non-fictional Works (by Nipam Kumar Saikia, Lecturer in English, Biswanath College) Work in progress
• The Notion of “Indianness” and Its Representation in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English: A Study of Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh  (by Prasenjit Das, Institute of Distance and Open Learning, Gauhati University) Work in progress

Nandana Dutta: Theory, Post-Colonial Literature & Women's Studies

Work supervised / Scholars / Ongoing Projects (2000-2007)

• Language -Literature Divide in English Teaching in India: A Study of the Undergraduate Syllabus of Assam University (by Rajat Bhattacharjee, Lecturer in English, Karimganj College) Work in Progress.
• Selves in Society: A Study of the Representation of Women in the Novels of Desai, Sahgal and Deshpande (by Sarika Saleh, independent scholar) Work in Progress.
• The Politics of Translation: Gender, Culture and Identity in Translating Women's Fiction. (by Ipsita Bhattacharyya, Lecturer in English, Sibsagar College) Work in Progress.
• Narratives of Marriage in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande and Anita Desai (by Jayati Das, Sr. Lecturer in English, S.B. Deorah) Work in Progress.
• Nationalism and the Woman’s Text: A Study of Women's Writing in Pre-Independence Assam (by Krisha Das, Lecturer in English, Handique Girls College) Work in Progress.
• Women's Writing and the Body in Post-Independence India (by Payal Jain, now Lecturer in English, Dibrugarh University) Work in Progress.
• Women's Voices in Indian English Poetry: A Study of Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu (by Kakoli Dutta, Sr. Lecturer in English, Nalbari College) Work in Progress.

Pradipta Borgohain: Victorian Fiction & Theory

Work supervised / Scholars / Ongoing Projects (2000-2007)

• Exile and Incarceration: A Study of Female Loneliness in Victorian Fiction (by Subhalakshmi Nath, Sr. Lecturer in English, S.B. Deorah College) Ph.D Awarded – 2008.
• Aspects of Individual Conscience in Doris Lessing's Diction (by Darshana Deka, Lecturer in English, Don Bosco University) Ph.D Awarded – 2008.
• Religion and Radical Comedy in Victorian Fiction (by Bandana Handique, Lecturer in English,) Work in progress.
• Woman to Woman: An Exploration of the Problematics of Female Identity in the Novels of D. H. Lawrence (by Dolikajyoti Sharma, now Lecturer in English, GU) Work in progress.
• Thomas Hardy’s Novels: Narratives of Progress and Regress. (by Gayatri Goswami, Lecturer in English, Sibsagar College) admitted 2008.
• The Metaphor of Discontent: A Study of Select English Fiction from India’s Northeast. (by Rupam Gogoi, Lecturer in English, Lakhimpur) admitted 2009.

Work supervised / Scholars / Ongoing Projects (2000-2007)

• Tradition and Change. Women in Indian English Fiction: With Special reference to the Novels of Nayantara Sahgal, Kamala Markandaya and Anita Desai. (by Abonti Barua Bharali, Sr. Lecturer in English, Cotton College) Ph D awarded in 2007.
• The Victorian Family: An analysis of the Role of the Family in the Victorian Novel with special reference to the Bronte Sisters (by Deetimali Barua, Sr. Lecturer in English, Cotton College) Ph D awarded in 2007.
• 'The Inner Voice': A Study of the Fiction of Alice Munro. (by Mala Sharma, Lecturer in English, Ramkrishnanagar College) Ph D awarded in 2007.
• Women in Arnold Wesker's Plays with special reference to his Six One Woman Plays.(by Rajesh Tiwari, Lecturer in English, Abhayapuri Puri College) Thesis Submitted in 2009.
• Europeans on the Khasis and the Khasi Response: A Study of Pre and Post Independence Writings. (by Madeline Tham, Lecturer in English, Lady Keane College) Work in progress.

Bibhash Choudhury: Literary Theory

Work supervised / Scholars / Ongoing Projects (2000-2007)

• “The Notion of ‘Space’ and its representation in Contemporary Indian English Writing: a study of the fiction of Rohinton Mistry” (by Sanghamitra De, Counsellor, IDOL, GU) Admitted 2008.
• “The idea of Indian Feminism in the discourse of gender in Non-Fiction by Women writers 1960-2007” (by Mushrifa Ibrahim, Lecturer in English, J.B. College, Jorhat) Admitted 2008.

Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri: Drama, Performance & Film Studies

Work supervised / Scholars / Ongoing Projects (2000-2007)

• Performing Gender, Confronting the Binary: Liminal Gender Acts in the plays of Mahesh Dattani and two Hindi Films (by Monami Porasor, part-time Lecturer in English, Mirza College) Admitted 2008.
• Performing Violence: Representation of Women and Violence in the Plays of Mahesh Dattani, Vijay Tendulkar, Manjula Padmanabhan and Dina Mehta. (by Saurabhi Sharma, JRF, ICHR) Admitted 2008.
• Literature and Film: ‘Dual Existence’. A Study of Assamese Film Adaptation. (by Pulak Talukdar, Sr. Lecturer in English, Boko College) Admitted 2009.

Sanjeev Kr Nath: African Fiction, T.S.Eliot’s Poetry, Assamese Folk Literature

Work supervised / Scholars / Ongoing Projects (2000-2007)

Anjali Daimari:

Work supervised / Scholars / Ongoing Projects (2000-2007)