Prof. S.R. Kidwai (Ph.D. Delhi University 1970) Research Interest: Nineteenth Century Urdu Literature & Society.

.Prof. S.M. Abbas Sharib (Ph.D. Lucknow University 1965) Research Interest: Literary Criticism

Prof. Manager Pandey (Ph.D. B.H.U., 1969) Research interest: Sociology of Literature, Literary History,Bhakti Poetry.

Prof. Naseer A. Khan (M.A. Urdu Lit, M.A. Linguistics,Ph.D. 1976 AMU, ) Research interest: Urdu Linguistics, Urdu non- Fiction & Stylistics

Dr. Mohd. Shahid Husain (Ph.D.,JNU,1982) Research Interest: Urdu Drama

Dr. Vir Bharat Talwar (Ph.D. JNU, 1984) Research interest: !9th Century Social reform Movement and Hindi Language Movement in United Provinces (North India), Premchand and Peasantry, Modern Dalit and Feminist Literature in Hindi

Dr.Purushottam Agrawal (Ph.D. JNU, 1985) Research interest: Bhakti Poetry, 19th Century Culture and Literature, Identity and discourse of power in Indian Society.

Dr. Gobind Prasad (Ph.D. University of Delhi, 1992) Research Interest: Modern Hindi Poetry

Dr. Mazhar Hussain (Ph.D, JNU 1990) Research Interest: 19th Century Reformist Urdu Literature Literary History and Western Literary theories.

Dr. S.M. Anwar Alam (Ph.D.JNU, 1990) Research Interest: Prose Criticism, specially Fiction,Literary movements and Trends

Dr.(MRs.)Jyotisar Sharma (Ph.D. University of Delhi, 1977) Research Interest: Medieval Poetry and Prose.

Dr. Om Prakash Singih (Ph.D. B.H.U. 1988 ) Research Interest :Modern Fiction and Literary History

Dr. Devendra Kumar Chaubey (Ph.D, JNU 1996 ) Research Interest: Fiction and Criticism