Online Admissions
Achievements of Faculty and Students
1. Online Interview- cum- Interaction Session with Prof. McDonald, Professor of Philosophy, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana conducted by Prof. Nilanshu Kumar Agrawal, Professor, Department of English, Feroze Gandhi College, Rae Bareli.- 25.10.2024
Prof. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal, Professor in the Department of English in the College conducted a thought provoking online interview- cum- interaction session on 25.10.2025 with Prof. William Mcdonald, Professor of Philosophy at Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana. Prof. McDonald is an internationally renowned philosopher and a Kierkegaard Scholar who has extensively published books articles and papers on Socrates, Plato, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Foucault.
In the course of his discussion, Prof. Mcdonald dwelt upon the dialectics of subjectivity and objectivity. He also elaborated upon the concepts of irony, existentialism, nihilism and social robots etc. and unravelled the abstract epistemological ideals in a highly unambiguous manner.
2. Online interview- cum- literary interaction with Prof. Rajnath, senior literary theorist and former Professor and Head, Department of English, University of Allahabad conducted by Prof. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal, Professor, Department of English, Feroze Gandhi College, Rae Bareli- 08.06.2025
On 8.6.2025, Prof. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal, Department of English in the College, had an enriching discussion with the senior literary theorist, Prof. Rajnath, former Professor and Head, Department of English, University of Allahabad. Prof. Rajnath has extensively formulated on literary theory and criticism. Raj Kamal Prakashan has also brought out the Hindi version of some of his essays in the volume entitled ‘पाश्चात्य काव्यशास्त्र की नई प्रवृत्तियां’.
In his ‘Journal of Literary Criticism’ and ‘Essays of Modern Criticism’, Prof. Rajnath has published internationally established scholars such as M.H.Abrams, Jonathan Culler, Terry Eagleton, Murray Krieger, Norman N. Holland, Christopher Norris, Jonathan Hart, Y. Sahai, V.Rai and P.S.Sastri etc. In the course of the interview, Prof. Rajnath dwelt at length on his long and variegated journey as a literary critic. He enumerated how his focus has shifted from formalism to cultural criticism. He also elaborated how literature is the interplay of romanticism/personality and classicism/objectivity.
He also discussed contemporary critical theories such as Chicago Criticism, New Criticism, Postmodernism, Deconstruction, Postcolonialism, Phenemonology etc.Prof. Rajnath also talked about his literary associations with eminent scholars such as Dr. Namvar Singh, Dr. Nagendra and Dr. Vinod Sena etc. He elaborated the abstract theoretical formulations in a simple and lucid manner.
3. Second Part of the Online interview conducted by Prof. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal with Prof. Rajnath, senior literary theorist and former Professor and Head, Department of English, University of Allahabad- 20.07.2025
On 20.07.2025, Prof. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal, Professor, Department of English, Feroze Gandhi College, Rae Bareli conducted the second part his online Podcast/Interview with Prof Rajnath, Senior Literary Theorist and Former Head, Department of English, University of Allahabad. Prof. Rajnath has extensively conceptualised on literary theory and criticism. He holds the Ph.D. Degrees from B.H.U. and the University of Leeds. He was also the Post- Doctoral Fellow at the State University of New York, Buffalo.
In the first episode of the interview, Prof. Rajanth had discussed the publication histories of his volumes such as Essays in Criticism, Critical Speculations, Essays in Modern Criticism along with the Journal of Literary Criticism. He had talked about his literary associations with the eminent scholars such as M. H. Abrams, Jonathan Culler, Terry Eagleton, Murray Krieger, Norman N. Holland, Christopher Norris, Jonathan Hart, V. Rai, P. S. Sastri Namvar Singh, Dr. Nagendra and Prof. Vinod Sena etc.
In the second episode of the interview, he elaborated the crux of his critical pluralism. He elaborated upon as to how literature is the interplay of romanticism/personality and classicism/objectivity. He also dwelt at length on the significance of Coleridge for the modern critics, particularly the Chicago Critics, also known as New-Aristotlians. He also enumerated how his focus has shifted from formalism to culture criticism.
