The Department of English started functioning in the year 1998 when Kokrajhar Campus of Gauhati University for the academic upliftment of the people of lower Assam. In the year 2001, Gauhati University introduced semester system replacing the traditional system of syllabus which had been continuing for a long time.

Apart from teaching and research on English language and literature, English department has been striving to give students and researchers interdisciplinary knowledge and outlook keeping in view the global academic demand and pursuit. The department, at present, engages students in interpreting literature in the light of theories prevalent in the leading universities of the world and also promotes research activities in that line. Since the department is committed to the development of the region, besides making the students sensible in the field of literature and culture and making them fit for the job market or making them capable of picking up the right career after university education, it also gives them new insight to interpret their own literature and culture which may occupy a significant position in World Literature. Hence, English department, in present perspective, analyses Indian studies from different angles of global thought and scholarship. Indeed, English as a subject is not just an end; it is rather a means to comprehend life, career, knowledge and relation holistically. MA (English) Syllabus of Bodoland University is a well designed, innovative and a compact course that covers a vast area ranging from British literature, European Literature, American Literature, African Literature, Indian Literature, to emerging humanities like Culture Studies, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Northeast Writings in English, Women"s Writing, Translation Studies, Linguistics and Hypertext etc. Both M. Phil. and Ph.D. syllabi in English of this university are also based on pursuit and trend of global academic research leading to free articulation and thinking.

OBJECTIVE and MISSION

The Department moves forward with the conviction that the discipline is not just for the privileged section with a bureaucratic bent of mind; it instead extends its patronage to all the English-knowing people in a global atmosphere irrespective of caste, creed, and religion. In Bodoland University, it acts as an interpreter, promoter and transformer; all rolled in one.

• To encourage unity and diversity at a time when the world is collapsing because of ideological conflict
• The department creates an atmosphere of amity and fellow-feeling by pursuing the study of comparative literature and translational theories and practices, film and media research.
• The department also aims at highlighting literature and culture during the Pandemic