The faculty members of the department are intellectual leaders in literary studies who are involved in interdisciplinary research and studies. The department offers Masters and Doctoral programmes where the senior and young faculty together bring their experience to the doorstep of students and scholars to make the study of literature intellectually stimulating. In the Masters courses students have the opportunity to acquire fundamental analytical skills to read diverse texts, to learn about the powers of argument and analysis, and to see the big picture of literature’s development from the Middle Ages to the present. We make our students learn through their reading of diverse texts the richness of human experiences and to appreciate common values and the differences between those experiences across cultures, places, and times.  The doctoral programme offers an opportunity to the scholars to do research texts from different cultural backgrounds through the lens of contemporary theories and interdisciplinary studies.