About the event:

The fourth session for the CWC’s E&E Online Seminar Series will be led by Prof. Kailash C. Baral, Former Professor of English and Indian Studies & Former Pro Vice-Chancellor, EFLU Hyderabad. Prof. Baral will provide a retrospective reading of his 2006 article in the journal Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and Culture (Duke University Press) which was eventually anthologized as a chapter in the International Critical Pedagogy Reader (Routledge, 2016). He will make a case for the reconfiguration of English Language Teaching into a dynamic space using an approach that draws from critical pedagogy, multilingualism, translation studies, and postcolonial theory. This will be followed by an open floor where the participants will get to discuss the reading directly with its author.

About the speaker:

Dr. Kailash Chandra Baral is a former Professor of English and India Studies at the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad, where he also served as Pro-Vice Chancellor. He previously held the position of Director at EFLU Shillong and served as Vice Chairman of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, based in Kolkata. He has been a member of national committees of the Sahitya Akademi and the UGC Special Assistance Programme (UGC SAP). He earned his PhD in English Literature from North- Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, where he began his academic career before joining EFLU. His research interests include critical theory, India studies, and Northeast India studies. Prof. Baral has received several prestigious recognitions, including the Narindra Pradhan Award from the former American Studies Research Centre in Hyderabad, the British Council Fellowship, and the ICHR Senior Academic Fellowship. His recent publications include the work Empire’s Backyard: Colonial Modernity and Northeast India (Routledge, 2026), the edited volume Cultural Forms and Practices in Northeast India (Springer, 2023), and the co-edited volume Theory after Derrida: Essays in Critical Praxis (Routledge, 2nd ed. 2018; 1st ed. 2009). His work has been widely published in leading journals in India and internationally, and has been anthologized in numerous volumes.

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