The Literary Studies major at JSLH undertakes the cultural exploration and scholarly study of varied kinds of texts, literary and often otherwise, including, but not limited to those written in English. In our efforts to do so, we often cross the boundaries of time, language and genre, keeping in mind the complex routes of cross-cultural exchanges and fertilization that lie at the basis of all literary and artistic endeavours. To that end, the major aims to impart the important skills of critical reading and thinking, analysis, synthesis and creativity, critique, and reflective writing on, and sometimes of, literature — as form, text, edition and publication, hyper-text or another category. Keeping in mind an interdisciplinary focus, the students in Literary Studies major are also often encouraged to explore literature vis-à-vis the other arts and media, interrogating in the process conjunction of literary and cultural texts with socio-economic history, political movements, ideologies and other intellectual developments. In other words, along with the more “traditional” and “canonical” literary texts, students in the program are also trained to read and analyse “non-literary” and/or “non-traditional” forms such as film and new media, through the lens of different schools of literary criticism and theory.