GoaUniversity: Shenoi Goembab School of Languages and Literature

Vice-Dean (Research)

Parienkar Prakash S.

Associate Professor of Konkani

Year of Establishment : 2022

Office Phone : +91-8669609109(English); -113(French); -120(Hindi); -124(Konkani); -128(Marathi); -114(Portuguese )

Email : Dean: dean.sgsll@unigoa.ac.in;
Vice-Dean, Academic:vice-dean.academic.sgsll@unigoa.ac.in; ;
Vice-Dean, Research: vice-dean.research.sgsll@unigoa.ac.in

Preamble:

The Shenoi Goembab School of Languages and Literature is established by the amalgamation of six conventional language departments active in the field of languages and literature, viz., Department of Konkani (established in 1987), Department of Marathi (1970), Department of Hindi (1965), Department of English (1965), Department of Portuguese (1987) and Department of French (1965).

Through the varied languages we embrace, we usher in vibrant possibilities for academic programmes and research. The erstwhile language departments dealt with a variety of literatures—Konkani, Hindi, Marathi, Goan Marathi, Dalit, British, Indian, American, Portuguese, Indo-Portuguese, Lusophone, French, Francophone, to name a few. Comparative Literature, Post-colonial Literature, Travel literature, Folk literature, Classical Literature, Christian tradition in Marathi literature, Feminist Writings, Literary Criticism and Contemporary Theories expand the scope of literature studies in the School. Other thrust areas include, but are not restricted to, Cultural Studies, Translation Studies, Media Studies, Linguistics and Comparative linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Didactics of language teaching, Performative Arts and Traditions, Mythology and Folklore Studies, Indian and Western Poetics, Diaspora Studies and Gender Studies.

Goa University’s School of languages and literature is aptly named after Shenoi Goembab, a renowned Konkani writer and activist. Besides his mother tongue Konkani, he mastered diverse languages during his life journey—Marathi, Portuguese, English and Sanskrit, just to mention a few. They left a vivid imprint on his monumental corpus of works, which includes translations of the Bhagavad Gita and plays by renowned English and French playwrights (Shakespeare and Moliere) into Konkani. The school carries forward Shenoi Goembab’s visionary perspective toward languages: it stays deeply rooted in local issues and opens up to global influences. As with Shenoi Goembab, Goa occupies centre stage and the School embraces interdisciplinary domains of knowledge to better cater to the specifics of the state. Thus, in this multifaceted framework, interdisciplinary areas like Sociological Study of Literature, the Language Movement, Goa Cultural Studies, Subaltern Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Law and Literature, Human Rights, Cartography and Archives, Heritage and Material Culture, Stories of Migration, India-Lusophone Relations, and Contemporary Art are explored and taught under the purview of the School.

Many eminent personalities were associated with the Faculty of languages before it became the School. Prof. B.V. Nemade who was the Founder Head of the erstwhile Department of English won the reputed Jnanpith award in 2014 for his contribution to Marathi literature. Similarly, Prof. Arvind Pandey from the former Department of Hindi was an outstanding scholar of Sanskrit and Urdu besides being an established literary critic of Hindi literature. Dr. Manohar Rai Sardesai, who was an eminent teacher of French, was also a renowned poet in Konkani. Dr. Olivinho Gomes, who was the Head of the erstwhile Department of Konkani contributed significantly to Konkani sociolinguistics. Moreover, Konkani Department has various projects from Sahitya Academy, NCERT, UGC, Central Directorate of Hindi, New Delhi, Commission for Scientific & Technical Terminology, New Delhi and Goa Konkani Academy, Goa. A Centre for Konkani Development Studies had been set up with the support of UGC in the IX Five-Year-Plan as an adjunct of the Department of Konkani which was engaged in multiple academic projects like the preparation of terminology, dictionaries, translation from Indian and foreign classics especially those relating to literary criticism, transliteration of Konkani texts from one script to another and the publication of the same for the benefit of the students. The Centre has done video documentation of Dasro, Ghumat vadan (Sakaarat), Rannamale (folk drama), Fugddi (folk dance) and the Three Kings Feast of Chandor under the unique programme called "Know our Culture".

The erstwhile Department of Portuguese and Lusophone Studies is the only one of its kind in the entire Indian Subcontinent. Through the Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara Chair, it actively promotes Indo-Portuguese studies. Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (1809 - 1879) was a Portuguese historian, philologist, administrator, politician and a Professor of Philosophy who defended the Konkani language and published a grammar and a history of the language titled Ensaio Histórico da Língua Concani. Thanks to the Cunha Rivara Chair, students, faculty and the public in Goa are able to benefit from interactions with international visiting research professors in the areas of language contact, ethnomusicology, social and economic networks, maritime communities, political and cultural history and history of art.

The amalgamation into a School is promising in more ways than one: inter-language and inter-linguistic synergies in a variety of domains, translations with local and international languages, opening up of new research opportunities and an innovative offer of courses await. Down the years, students have benefited from the quality education and industry preparedness offered by the language departments. The synergies of the School will multiply the advantages for our students. On the whole, it is our belief that The Shenoi Goembab School of Languages and Literature will be able to offer exciting possibilities for our students and researchers to express themselves by incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives and vision.

Programme	Programme Director	Intake
Certificate of Proficiency in French-1 (Level A1)	-	-
Certificate of Proficiency in French A2 (Level A2)	-	-
Certificate of Proficiency in Portuguese - I	-	-
Certificate of Proficiency in Portuguese - II	-	-
Diploma of Proficiency in French (Level B1)	-	-
Diploma of Proficiency in Portuguese	-	-
Advanced Diploma in French Language (Level B2)	-	-
Advanced Diploma in Portuguese	-	-
Advanced Diploma in Translation	-	-
B.A. French (Hons.)	Kshama Dattaram Dharwadkar	-
B.A. Portuguese	Scarlet Ava Fernandes	-
M.A. English	Poorwa Naik	-
M.A. French	Irene Silveira	-
M.A. Hindi	Bipin Bihari Tiwari	-
M.A. Konkani	Hanumant Chandrakant Chopdekar	-
M.A. Marathi	Vinay Madgaonkar	-
M.A. Portuguese	Dhruv Sudin Usgaonkar	-
M.Phil. English	-	-
M.Phil. Hindi	-	-
M.Phil. Marathi	-	-
M.Phil. Portuguese	-	-
Ph.D. English	-	-
Ph.D. French	-	-
Ph.D. Hindi	-	-
Ph.D. Konkani	-	-
Ph.D. Marathi	-	-

Name	Designation	Areas of Interest
Hemant Aiya	Assistant Professor	Folklore, Folkculture & Folklitrature, Linguistics, Marathi Poetry, Goan Culture & Heritage
Loraine Ethel Barreto Alberto	Assistant Professor	Indo-Portuguese Literature and Culture, Teaching Portuguese as a Foreign Language
Vinayak Bapat	Assistant Professor	Literary Criticism, Ancient Marathi Literature, Marathi Novels
Jeanette Camilla Barbosa Noronha	Assistant Professor (Contract)	Foreign Language Acquisition, Teaching Portuguese as a Foreign Language
Othman Benjelloun-Touimi	French Language Assistant	Travel stories, Phenomenology, Narratology, Romanticism movement, Analytic and language philosophy
Nina Caldeira	Darshan	Goa Cultural Studies, Post-colonial Literature, Linguistics, American Literature
Anjali Chaubey	Assistant Professor	Indian English Theatre, Diaspora Studies and Gender Studies
Hanumant Chandrakant Chopdekar	Associate Professor	Literary Criticism, Konkani Folklore, Language Movement, Indian and Western Poetics, Linguistics, Translation
Franz Schubert Agnelo De Miranda Cotta	Assistant Professor	Lusophone literature and culture, Translation and cultural studies, Performative arts and traditions
Shourya Dalvi	Assistant Professor (Contract)	Teaching methodology, Culture Studies, Literature
Delfim Correia DaSilva	UGC - Assistant Professor	Interdisciplinary Portuguese Studies (Teaching Portuguese as Foreign Language, Portuguese Literature and Linguistics)
Sangeeta R. Dessai	Assistant Professor	Indian Travel Writing, Goan Folk Literature and Pedagogical Perspectives on Goan Literature
Kshama Dattaram Dharwadkar	Assistant Professor	Translation, Linguistics, Phonetics, Mythology
Marcelle Feigol Guil	Assistant Professor (Tenure)	Intercultural Communication, Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, Multilingualism, Literary Studies
Scarlet Ava Fernandes	Assistant Professor	Portuguese Language & Linguistics; Creative Writing
Soniya Sitaram Gadkar	Assistant Professor	Folklore, Literary Criticism, Humour Literature
Sanika A. Gaonkar	Assistant Professor	Special study of Konkani Novels, Konkani Folklore, Indian and Western Poetics
Jayesh Gaonkar	Assistant Professor	Folklore, Goan Marathi Literature
Manisha Chimano Gaude	Assistant Professor	Hindi Story and Hindi Travel Literature
Chinmay Madhu Ghaisas	Assistant Professor	Translation Studies & Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, Professional Marathi & Grammar, Journalism & Mass Media, Marathi Drama
Natasha Maria Gomes	Assistant Professor	French Language Teaching Methodology, Development of TLMs and Culture Studies
Anthony Gomes	Assistant Professor (Contract)	French phonetics, Francophone studies, French culture, Linguistics, French Literature
Sweta Prasad Govekar	Assistant Professor	Media & Journalism, Hindi Novel
Vinay Madgaonkar	Assistant Professor	Folk Literature and Indian Literature
Vrushali S. Mandrekar	Darshan	Short Story, Comparative Literature & Translation
Runa Menezes	Assistant Professor (Contract)	Performance Art, Drama, American Literature, Media Studies
Rama D. Murkunde	Assistant Professor	Linguistics, Translation, Feminism, Feminist literature & Literary Criticism
Kripali Banerjee Naik	Assistant Professor	Feminist Literature, Indian Literature
Poorwa Naik	Assistant Professor	Indian Literatures in English, Translation Studies, Queer Literature in India, Cultural Studies
Naresh Chandrakant Naik	Assistant Professor	Old Konkani Literature, Creative Literature, Folklore, Literary Criticism
Nafisa Oliveira	Assistant Professor	Law and Literature, Human Rights, Translation Studies, Culture Studies, Dystopian Fiction, and Graphic Novel as a Form
Shusha Oliveira	Assistant Professor (Contract)	Graphic novels, postmodern art, and francophone literature
Sheela Pandey	Assistant Professor (Contract)	Cultural Studies, Mythologies, Dalit and Post-Colonial Literature, Language Learning Methodology
Prakash S. Parienkar	Associate Professor	Sociological Study of Literature, Special Study of Konkani Novels, Research Methodology
Irene Silveira	Assistant Professor	French and Francophone Literature, Culture Studies, Diaspora Studies, Sociolinguistics, Didactics of French as Foreign language
Aditya Dayanand Sinai-Bhangui	Assistant Professor	Linguistics, Hindi Grammar, Translation & Indian Poetics
Bipin Bihari Tiwari	Assistant Professor	Hindi Story, Hindi Criticism
Sunita S. Umraskar	Associate Professor	Medieval Marathi Literature, Literary Criticism, Modern Form of Literature and Linguistics
Dhruv Sudin Usgaonkar	Assistant Professor	Portuguese as an International Language, Intercultural studies, India-Lusophone relations, Postcolonial Studies
Deepak Prabhakar Varak	Assistant Professor	Drama, Contemporary Poetry, Translation, Modern Literature
Purva Pandit Vasta	Assistant Professor	Translation Studies, Comparative Literature, Modern Marathi Literature
Priyanka Verekar	Assistant Professor (Contract)	Indian and Western drama, Film theory studies
Mamata Deepak Verlekar	Assistant Professor	Hindi Poetry & Literary Criticism
Anuradha Wagle	Darshan	Translation, Linguistics, Teaching Methodology

Shenoi Goembab School of Languages and Literature

Dean

Anuradha Wagle

Darshan of French & Francophone Studies

Vice-Dean (Academic)

Mandrekar Vrushali S.

Darshan of Hindi

Vice-Dean (Research)

Parienkar Prakash S.

Associate Professor of Konkani

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