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The department of Cultural studies, Tezpur University, is one of the earliest Departments fully devoted to the pursuit of Cultural studies in India. Culture is increasingly being perceived as a premise from within which subjectivities are being validated as a rapidly transforming world grapples with ethnicity, notions of nation, radical revision of history and space. ‘Culture’ is the repository of ideas and values, lifeways, modes of communicating and making sense of selves.

Founded in 1995, the department is a vibrant academic entity engaged in study and research on culture and cultural theory, cultural texts emanating from practices and forms in all the variegated dimensions, with a special focus on Assam and North east India. Students and faculty are in continuous engagement with exciting, interdisciplinary approach to traditional fields of study and understanding cultural dynamics of the region aiming at exploring emergent cultural and cross-cultural phenomena from multiple points of view. Researchers and faculty drawn from various disciplines like literature, folklore, performance studies, Anthropology, Media and film studies, Gender studies are actively engaged in exploring subjects like culture and cultural theory, folklore, art practices, ethnicity, religious and social institutions, local and national media, transformation and transaction in translated literature, comparativism in art and literature and formation of nationalities.