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The Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University, is one of the earilest Departments fully devoted to the pursuit of Cultural Dtudies in India. Cultural is increasingly being perveived as a premise from within which subjectivities are being validated as a rapidly transforming world grapples with ethnicity, notions of nation. radival revision of history and space. 'Cultural is the reposoitory of ideas and values, lifeways, modes of communicating and making sense of selves.

Founded in 1995, the Department is a vibrant academic entity that engages with cultural products, cultural practices and cultural forms in all the variegated dimensions, with a special focus on the North East India. Researchers and faculty drawn from various disciplines like Anthropology, Performance Studies, Literatures, Folklore, Media and Film Studies, Gender Studies are actively engaged in exploring subjects like ethnicity, religious institutions, folklore and culture, local and national media, cultural theory, transformation and transaction in translated literatures and formation of nationalities.