Faculty

Professor

Maya Shanker Pandey

Office:

Department of English
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Pin- 221 005 - INDIA

Phone:
0542-2318530
+91-9415811957
Current Position: Professor

University Employment No: 11742

Academic Qualifications:
  • Ph.D. (BHU)
  • PGDTE (CIEFL, Hyderabad)

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Contemporary Literature
  • Diaspora Literature
  • English Language Teaching
  • Indian Literature in English
  • Langua Communication
  • Teacher Education
Vanashree

Office:
Room No – 151, Department of
English, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
0542-2368077 (Residence)
09453206708
Note: VANASHREE is also published as VANASHREE TRIPATHI. She joined Fulbright teaching Fellowship under her spouses’ surname, BANERJEE, hence in all Fulbright postings her name appears as VANASHREE BANERJEE

Current Position: Professor

University Employment No:

Academic Qualifications:
  • Ph.D.

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Indian Classics in Translation
  • Classical Indian Drama
  • Theatre in Performance
  • Modern Hindi Literature in Translation
  • Classical Hindu Ethics
  • The System of Values in the Indian Epics
  • Comparative/Intercultural Studies
  • Gandhian Thought
  • Multiple translations of the Gita in Modern times
  • Contemporary Theories of Literature and Culture with special reference to Postcolonial Women’s Literature
  • Subaltern Studies
  • Modern British and American Fiction and Drama
  • Shakespearean-Criticism
Ananda Prabha Barat (HOD, Dept. of English)

Office:
Room No – 160, Department of
English, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
9415446163
Current Position: Professor

University Employment No: 11746

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A.
  • Ph.D.

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Comparative Studies
  • British Fiction
  • American Fiction
  • Indian Writing in English
  • New Literatures in English
Krishna Mohan Pandey

Office:
Room No – 152, Department of
English, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
9450871426
Current Position: Professor

University Employment No: 18327

Academic Qualifications:
  • Ph.D.(Dr R.M.L. Avadh University, Faizabad)
  • P.G.D.T.E (Hyderabad)

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • 18th Century British Poetry
  • ELT
  • Sanskrit Poetics
  • Indian English Literature
Guru Charan Behera

Office:
Room No – 154, Department of
English, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
Current Position: Professor

University Employment No: 18403

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A. English
  • Ph.D. English
  • P.G. Diploma in Translation Studies

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Modern Drama
  • Postcolonial Literature
  • Theory
  • Translation Studies
Anita Singh

Office:
Room No – 157, Department of
English, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
9451722121
Current Position: Professor

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A.
  • Ph.D.(BHU)

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Gender Studies
  • Performance Studies
  • American Literature
  • Indian Drama
  • Women's Writing
  • Literary Criticism and Contemporary Theory.
Sanjay Kumar

Office:
Room No – 157, Department of
English, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
+91-542-6703163 (O)
+91-9451571906 (Cell)
Current Position: Professor

University Employment No: 11748

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A. (English), Patna University
  • Ph.D. (English), IIT Kanpur

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • American Literature
  • Translation Studies
  • Comparative Literary
  • Cultural Studies (Folk and Vernacular Literary and Cultural Traditions)
Mithilesh Kumar Pandey

Office:
Room No – 139, Department of
English, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
9415224313(M)
Current Position: Professor

Academic Qualifications:
  • Ph.D.in English

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Modern British Poetry
  • Indian Literature and Contemporary Literature.
Prakash Chandra Pradhan

Office:
Room No – 143, Department of
English, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
9452765178, 9451149515
Current Position: Professor

University Employment No: 18338

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A., Ph.D.

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • British and American Literature
  • Stylistics
  • Translation Studies
  • New Literatures in English
  • Critical Theory and Eco-critical Studies
  • Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies
  • Feminism and Gender Studies
  • Modern British Poetry
  • Indian Literature in English
Dipti Ranjan Pattanaik

Office:
Room No – 156, Department of
English, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
91-542-2575779
Current Position: Professor

University Employment No: 18400

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A., Ph.D

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Creative Writing
  • Children’s Literature
  • Translation Studies
Anshuman Khanna

Office:
Room No – 159, Department of
English, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
0542-2401404
Current Position: Professor

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A. and Ph.D

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • British Drama
  • Shakespeare Studies
Jai Shankar Jha

Office:
Room No – 158, Department of
English, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
Current Position: Professor

Academic Qualifications:
  • M. A., Ph.D., UGC NET

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Drama in English
  • Culture Studies
Archana Kumar

Office:
Room No – 142, Department of
English, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
Current Position: Professor

University Employment No: 11749

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A., Ph.D

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Gender Studies, Folklore
  • Indian English Literature
  • Diaspora and Migration
Lata Dubey

Office:
Room No – 140, Department of
English, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
+91-9450011249 (Cell)
Current Position: Professor

University Employment No: 17475

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A., Ph.D., NET

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Victorian Fiction and Poetry
  • New Literatures in English
  • Deconstruction
  • Women's Studies
  • Contemporary Indian English Literature
  • Post- Structural Psychoanalysis

Associate Professor

Banibrata Mahanta

Office:
Room No – 322, Abhinav Bhavan,
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
Current Position: Associate Professor

University Employment No: 17478

Academic Qualifications:
  • PhD (BHU), PGDTE (Hyderabad)

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Contemporary Theory, esp. Postcolonial Literature and Theory
  • Politics and Pedagogy of English Studies in India; Indian Writing in English
  • Iconography of Indian Nationalism
  • Linguistics and ELT
Devender Kumar

Office:
Room No – 153, Department of
English, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
0542-6703165
Current Position: Associate Professor

University Employment No: 18565

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D., NET & JRF (UGC), SLET (KUK), Three-Year Diploma in Hindustani Classical (Vocal)

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Folklore and Gender Studies
  • Modern British Fiction
  • Indian Literature

Assistant Professor

Panchanan Dalai

Office:
Room No – 324, Abhinav Bhavan,
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
0542-6703165
Current Position: Assistant Professor

University Employment No:

Academic Qualifications:
  • M. Phil. and Ph.D. (University of Hyderabad)

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Island Diaspora
  • Modern British Fiction
  • Young Adult Literature
  • Holocaust Literature
  • Dalit Literature
  • Sexuality, Nautical Literature
  • Children and Television
  • Interdisciplinary Studies and Creative Pedagogy
Virendra Kumar Singh

Office:
Room No – 327, Abhinav Bhavan,
Department of English ,Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
Email:
Current Position: Assistant Professor

University Employment No:

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A., Ph.D

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Translation Studies
  • Linguistics and the English Language
Dhriti Ray Dalai

Office:
Room No – 110, Beside Marathi Dept,
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
Current Position: Assistant Professor

Academic Qualifications:
  • Ph.D. (Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan)

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Apartheid Literature
  • South African Fiction
  • 18th Century English History
  • Disability Studies
  • Dalit Literature
  • Sexuality, Kishore Sahitya
  • Interdisciplinary Studies and Creative Pedagogy
Indu Choudhary

Office:
Room No – 109, Beside Department of Marathi,
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
07310389469
Current Position: Assistant Professor

Academic Qualifications:
  • UGC NET, Ph.D.

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Indian & Dalit Literature
Umesh Kumar

Office:
Room No – 326, Abhinav Bhavan,
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
0542-6703167(O)
Current Position: Assistant Professor

University Employment No: 20564

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A. (Pune), Ph.D. (EFL-U, Hyderabad), UGC-NET JRF

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Gender and Violence Studies
  • Alternative Literatures
  • Vernacular Literatures in Translation
  • Literary Theory and Philosophy
  • Subaltern and Marginal Voices and Indian State and its functioning apparatus
Anway Mukhopadhyay

Office:
Room No – 321, Abhinav Bhavan,
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
7800075879
Current Position: Assistant Professor

University Employment No: 20573

Academic Qualifications:
  • BA Hons. in English (Gold Medalist, Jadavpur University, 2010), MA (Gold Medalist, Jadavpur University, 2012), PhD (BHU, 2015)

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Feminist Thought, Ancient Greek Culture, Literature and Philosophy, Renaissance, Shakespeare, Postcolonial Literature, Utopian Literature, Literary and Cultural Theory, Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies, Hindu Studies with special focus on Vedanta and Tantra, Oral Cultures, History of Western Thought, Reception Theory
Deepali Yadav

Office:
Room No – 323, Abhinav Bhavan,
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
Current Position: Assistant Professor

University Employment No: 20551

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A., M.Phil, UGC NET

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Visual Studies in literature (Films, Graphic novels, Paintings, Television commercials)
  • Gandhian literature, Gender studies
Beauty Yadav

Office:
Room No – 109, Beside Marathi
Department, Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
Current Position: Assistant Professor

University Employment No: 20575

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A. (English), UGC NET

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Indian Writing in English
  • Culture Studies
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Localization
  • Provincial Literature
Vipin K Kadavath

Office:
Room No – 326, Abhinav Bhavan,
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
Current Position: Assistant Professor

University Employment No: 20611

Academic Qualifications:
  • Ph. D. (Submitted –EFL-U, Hyderabad)
  • M. Phil. (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
  • M. A. (Pondicherry University)
  • B. A. (University of Calicut)

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Culture Studies
  • Literary Criticism and Theory
  • Vernacular Literary Spheres in India
Abhilasha Eliza. P. Kumar

Office:
Room No – 325, Abhinav Bhavan,
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
Current Position: Assistant Professor

University Employment No: 20552

Academic Qualifications:
  • M. A. (St., Xavier’s College, Ranchi), UGC NET

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Indian writings in English
  • European literature in translation
  • Folklores and folktales, Tribal literature
  • Contemporary theory and criticism
  • Film studies and popular culture
  • VDrama and Theatre
  • Indian Aesthetics, Science fiction
Arti Nirmal

Office:
Room No – 323, Abhinav Bhavan,
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
Current Position: Assistant Professor

University Employment No: 20555

Academic Qualifications:
  • Ph.D., UGC-NET JRF, M.A., B.Ed., B.A. (Hons.)

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Literary Criticism and Theory
  • Diaspora Fiction
  • Shakespearean Drama
  • Contemporary Literature
Neeraj Sharma

Office:
Room No – 324, Abhinav Bhavan,
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
8826868925
Current Position: Assistant Professor

University Employment No: 20569

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A., M. Phil, UGC NET, Ph.D. (Pursuing)

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Folklore: Western Himalayan Folklore, Indian Folklore, Folklore Theory, Folklore as performance
  • Modern European Drama
  • Modern Literature
  • Contemporary Theory
  • Communication Skills and Technical Writing
Madhvi Lata

Office:
Room No – 325, Abhinav Bhavan,
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
Current Position: Assistant Professor

University Employment No: 20567

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A., UGC NET, Ph.D

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • INDIAN WRITINGS IN ENGLISH (DRAMA)
  • LITERARY WORKS BASED ON INDIAN MYTHOLOGY
Rahul Chaturvedi

Office:
Room No – 321, Abhinav Bhavan,
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
09919020500
Current Position: Assistant Professor

University Employment No: 20606

Academic Qualifications:
  • M.A., Ph.D. (BHU), UGC NET (JRF)

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • British and Postcolonial Literatures
  • Youth Cartographies
  • Semiotics of Culture
  • Cinema Studies
  • Translation Studies
  • South Asian Literature
Vivek Singh

Office:
Room No – 327, Abhinav Bhavan,
Faculty of Arts
Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Postal Pin – 221005, India

Phone:
91-9532119949
Current Position: Assistant Professor

University Employment No: 20564

Academic Qualifications:
  • Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from University of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad
  • M. Phil. in English Literature from Pondicherry University, Kalapet Puducherry
  • M.A. in English Literature in 2007-2009 from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
  • B.A. (Honors) in English Literature in 2004-2007 from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

Areas of Academic Interest:
  • Disability Studies, Animal Studies, Subaltern Studies, Minor Cosmopolitanism