Chairperson’s Message

Welcome to the Department of English, a place to explore a rich variety of subject areas in the fields of language, linguistics, and literature. Established in February 2011 as the Department of Linguistics and renamed the Department of English in 2020, we now run degree programmes in BS (Linguistics and Literature), MPhil (Linguistics), MPhil (Literature), PhD (Linguistics) and PhD (Literature). Our passionate and internationally renowned academic team, engaged in producing research of national and international significance, provides an intellectually stimulating environment and necessary tools to undergraduate and postgraduate students to appreciate literature across historical, cultural and national boundaries.From classical texts to postcolonial literatures, from folk literature to global literature, from popular genres to digital humanities and film studies, our department offers an exciting range of courses in the respective disciplines. Through various theoretical approaches and literary genres, students are not only encouraged to explore literary works in terms of social relevance and aesthetic value but also trained to think and write critically. Read More »

Welcome To the Department

At the Department of English, we proudly offer a variety of courses on English language, linguistics and literature. Fall 2020 witnessed our first intake of BS English Programme and we intend to comprehensively roll out MPhil and PhD programmes in both disciplines of Literature and Linguistics during the incoming sessions. The faculty of English is eminent for being foreign qualified and also for their excellence in teaching and research. Offering courses and degrees in English Literature, Linguistics and Language is, though, not a new phenomenon in Pakistan, but here at QAU, this is for the very first time that English department has emerged, on academic strata, as the most famed center of excellence for the research, criticism, teaching and study.