List of all HSS Faculty Members
Mini Chandran, Professor
PhD, Kerala University, 1998
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T. Ravichandran, Professor
PhD, Pondicherry University, 2000
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Sayan Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor
PhD, University of Cambridge, 2014
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Feroz Hassan, Assistant Professor
PhD, Screen Arts and Cultures (University of Michigan), 2017
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Suchitra Mathur, Professor
PhD, Wayne State University, 1998
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G. Neelakantan, Professor
PhD, IIT Kanpur, 1989
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Chaithra Puttaswamy, Associate Professor
PhD, SOAS, University of London, 2009
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N. P. Sudharshana, Associate Professor
PhD, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 2013
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Usha Udaar, Assistant Professor
PhD, Indian Institute of technology Delhi, 2017.
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Lakshmana Rao Pinninti, Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Hyderabad, 2016.
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Muthukumar M , Assistant Professor
PhD, NIT Tiruchirappalli, 2020
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Chinmay Dharurkar, Assistant Professor
PhD, IIT Bombay, 2018
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Sh. Francis Monsang, Assistant Professor
PhD, IIT Madras, 2022
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Ritwij Bhowmik, Associate Professor
PhD, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, 2014.
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Koumudi Patil, Associate Professor (On Leave till 2025)
MFA, Vishwabharati University, 2004
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Shatarupa Thakurta Roy, Associate Professor
PhD, IIT Guwahati, 2014
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Rajarshi Sengupta, Assistant Professor
PhD, University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada, 2019
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Prashant Bagad, Professor
PhD, University of Southampton, 2008
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Vineet Sahu, Professor
PhD, University of Hyderabad, 2009
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A V Ravishankar Sarma, Professor
PhD, IIT Bombay, 2006
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Lalit Saraswat, Assistant Professor
PhD, IIT Bombay
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Sushruth Ravish, Assistant Professor
PhD, IIT Bombay, 2021
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Braj Bhushan, Professor
PhD, BRAB University, 1999
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Shikha Dixit, Professor
PhD, Agra University, 1992
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Kumar Ravi Priya, Professor
PhD, University of Delhi, 2007
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Anindita Chakrabarti, Professor
PhD, Delhi University, 2007
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Esha Chatterjee, Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, 2020
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Munmun Jha, Professor
PhD, Glasgow University, 1996
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Binay K Pattnaik, Professor
PhD, Pune University, 1987
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Jillet Sarah Sam, Associate Professor
PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, 2014
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Pradip Swarnakar, (Professor & Head)
PhD IIT Kanpur, 2008
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Thounaojam Somokanta, Assistant Professor
PhD, Central University of Gujarat, 2016
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Pradip Swarnakar
Professor & Head
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Minors are offered in the English and Philosophy disciplines.
Minor in Linguistic Theory
One course out of:
- ENG122 (Introduction to Linguistics)
- ENG124 (Language and Society)
Two courses out of:
- ENG423 (Current Issues in Linguistics Theory)
- ENG443 (Natural Language Semantics)
- ENG447 (Cognitive Linguistics)
- ENG448 (Languages of South Asia)
Minor in English Literature
- One course out of: ENG431, ENG433, ENG434, ENG437, ENG438
- One course out of: ENG432, ENG439, ENG445, ENG446
- One course out of: ENG435, ENG436, ENG440
Students can obtain a minor in Literature by clearly opting for one of the three combinations suggested.
- A total of 8 students can be chosen in both the minors combined. If the number of requests for minors exceeds eight, selection will be based on a personal interview.
- All requests for minors should be sent to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Minor in Philosophy
The Minor would require a minimum of 27 credits to be accumulated from the courses due mentioned below.
- PHI141: Introduction to Philosophy
- PHI147: Introduction to Critical Thinking
- PHI142: Introduction to Logic
- PHI143: Introduction to Political Philosophy
- PHI145: Introduction to Philosophy of Biology and Cognition
- PHI446: Philosophy of Science
- PHI447: Moral Thinking
- PHI448: Individual vs Authority
- PHI452: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- PHI455: Philosophical Logic
- PHI443M: Living Philosophy
- PHI757: Moral Judgement
- PHI 774: Social and Political Philosophy
- PHI140: Topics in Indian Philosophy
- PHI161: Philosophy of Beauty
- PHI450: Philosophical Aesthetics
- PHI481: Existentialism
The extant rules of the institute, as mentioned on the linked documents below, regarding Minors are to be followed in the allotment and award of minors.
- https://www.iitk.ac.in/doaa/data/Minor.pdf
- https://www.iitk.ac.in/doaa/data/Course-Template-B.Tech-BS.pdf
Interested students are expected to apply for a minor in response to the call from the DoAA and in the prescribed format. A total of 10 students can be chosen for a Philosophy minor every academic year. The number of seats may be altered by the discipline.
The selection will depend on the performance of their first course in Philosophy, an invited essay or meeting may also be added to the selection process. All queries regarding the minor are to be emailed to the current DUGC representative from Philosophy (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).
We continuously strive to improve our academic quality, teaching and research output, to stay ahead of new developments, in the disciplines of English, Fine Arts, Philosophy, Psychology & Sociology and to be a department fostering excellence in Humanities & Social Sciences .
Introduction to Logic being taught by a faculty member from the Mathematics Department, History of Science and Engineering taught as a course in Linguistics by a team of faculty members from the Humanities, Physics and Electrical Engineering Departments – this sums up the philosophy of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at IIT Kanpur.
No eyebrow is raised when faculty members from the HSS are seen to be participating enthusiastically in the interdisciplinary postgraduate programme in Design (MDes) or faculty members in Fine Arts or Economics or Psychology are seen to attract as much project work as in some engineering departments. Humanities and Social Sciences is not a peripheral department in this technological institute, thanks to the vision of the founding director of IIT Kanpur Professor P K Kelkar.
Professor P. K. Kelkar, the founding Director of IIT Kanpur was instrumental in setting up a full-fledged Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), along with other departments of Science and Engineering in 1960. He realized that it would help the students to sharpen their creative talents, to become better leaders and decision makers. This outlook motivated the Institute to allocate more than fifteen percent of the total course time to HSS courses in its five-year undergraduate B. Tech. programmes. The students often consider HSS courses as most enjoyable which also opens new avenues for their thought process.
The Department started with English, Economics, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology as the constituent disciplines. The first set of permanent faculty members in HSS were appointed in early 1962, one each in Sociology, Psychology and English. The Department had complete freedom to design and teach courses, and was also given liberal funds to develop a library.
The Department was perceived to be the intellectual soul of the Institute. It was believed that it would broaden the student's perspective and contribute to the moulding of a rounded personality with an unprejudiced mind and critical thinking skills. It was accepted that HSS courses should be taught as these would normally be taught in a traditional university. At the same time, faculty members emphasized the need for a vibrant Ph.D. programme, going beyond the considerations of undergraduate teaching.
Given the needs of the five independent disciplines, it was decided that there would be 30 members in the Department: six in each discipline, namely, Economics, English, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology. After a few years, Fine Arts was added to the original five disciplines. Sanskrit was introduced for a brief period when it was taught by a visiting faculty.
The Department started a Ph.D. programme in Philosophy as early as 1965. By the late 1970s, the faculty strength rose to 32 and gradually Ph.D. programme was initiated in all the other disciplines. The last discipline to join the Ph.D. programme was Fine Arts. Currently (in 2021), there are 115 Ph.D. students in the Department. The Department also started an M.Phil. programme in 1980 which was discontinued after one year.
A major development in the academic history of the Department was the starting of a Five-Year Integrated M.Sc. Programme in Economics in 2005. In 2017, the Economics discipline was converted into a separate Department of Economic Sciences.
The growth of the Department was not without hurdles. The faculty strength dwindled from 32 in the late 1970s to 22 in the mid-1990s. This trend changed around the turn of the century, and the faculty on roll has since then registered a steady increase. In 2021, there are 29 faculty members in the Department.
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The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) was established in 1960 along with other departments of Science and Engineering. With an intent to sharpen the creative talents of the students and to help them evolve as better leaders and decision- makers, the institute allocated more than fifteen percent of the total UG course credits to HSS courses.
The Department has twenty-nine faculty members who teach a range of courses in English, Fine Arts, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology. Many faculty members of HSS actively participate in the interdisciplinary postgraduate programme in Design (M. Des.) and co-supervise students of other departments as well. Besides teaching, the faculty members are involved in thesis supervision of Ph.D. scholars working in different areas...
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-Prof. Pradip Swarnakar
Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
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