In addition to IT-equipped classrooms, the Department provides a historic seminar room to postgraduate students. The Department also maintains PCs with internet connectivity for student and faculty use. Access to data banks, e-books, digital archives and research journals through the auspices of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) is available at the Department.
The Department has been publishing a literary and research journal, entitled Explorations, since 1969. Its contributors include prominent teachers and research scholars. Explorations is published annually.
The SM-ELC is, in many ways, the face of the Department. Mainly a student-led co-curricular office, the SM-ELC performs a number of functions. It is an instructional facility for heterogeneous groups formed around students’ interests where teachers are facilitators /observers/ encouragers.
It is a platform for initiating discussion, debate and dissent; the essentials of democracy. In this vein, it organises lectures, seminars, poetry symposiums, and short plays. It is also responsible for arranging the Department's festivities, chief among them the Annual Dinner/ Farewell for final-year students.
While English Literature in itself is a lucrative career option, our alumni include some of the top names in the country in fields as diverse as politics and music, journalism and government service, and of course literary writing, teaching and research.
Students graduating with English Literature degrees often find work as digital copywriters, copy-editors, editorial assistants, Media researchers, lexicographers, school, college and university teachers, web content managers, creative writers, arts administrators and educational consultants. A great number of civil servants in the country hail from the Department of English Language and Literature.
