Teaching Staff

We have some of the best English and foreign language teachers in the country. The difference between our faculty and that of other universities perhaps lies in the fact that rather than just being specialists in their areas, all of them have a special interest in how their disciplines are organized and taught. You could say that our teachers are teachers of teachers. Interest in questions of pedagogy is an implicit given here. Teachers and visiting faculty often offer semester-long courses in areas that are not necessarily part of the mainstream academic activity at the university – a reflection of the university’s commitment to intellectual cross-fertilization and inter-departmental synergy.

Visiting Scholars at EFL University

Since our inception in 1958, we have attracted an array of committed and distinguished teachers, scholars and researchers from all parts of the world, all keenly interested in raising standards of teaching and learning English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Arabic and Japanese. Many leading luminaries have visited us and interacted with our faculty and researchers, and each one of them has contributed to the development of a unique intellectual ethos and a vibrant tradition of academic freedom and self-reflection at the university. Prominent visitors have included scholars like Noam Chomsky, Michael Halliday, Richard Kayne, Paul Kiparsky, John McCarthy, Peter Ladefoged, Andre Marinet, Nina Catach, H G Widdowson, C J Brumfit, R A Allright, Wilga Rivers, Braj Kachru, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, S Pit Corder, Akeel Bilgrami, Jean Aitchison, E C G Sudarshan, Ladislav Zgusta, Stephen Greenblatt, A K Ramanujan, Nissim Ezekiel, Upendra Baxi and U R Ananthamurthy.

Honouring Eminent Scholars at EFL University

The University has done itself proud by honouring illustrious scholars. It conferred Honorary Fellowships on the legendary linguist, Professor M A K Halliday and the celebrated sociolinguist, Professor Braj Kachru; and has conferred Honorary Doctorates on eminent personalities like the widely acclaimed novelist and playwright Dr Bhisham Sahni, and the famous German scholar and publisher Dr Siegfried Unseld.