Established in 1963
Chairperson: Dr Adnan Tahir
Overview
The faculty of English, Emerson University, Multan cherishes a hundred-year history of excellence. Since the establishment of the college in 1920, the faculty of English has been serving the national and international community in various ways. Since the establishment of Department of English in 1963 and the commencement of Master classes, the highly qualified faculty has been equipping the students with the skills needed in various departments. As a result, many alumni had worked and have been working in courts, bureaucracy, parliament, local administrations, education, and other fields of life. We take pride in offering the highest standards of quality education through a highly qualified staff. It is of vital importance to mention here that the substantial number of the faculty at the Department of English is Post Doctorates and PhDs in Linguistics and Literature indigenously and from abroad (UK). At present, the Department has 15 faculty members including Five PhDs and 8 MPhil degree holders. Reconstituted in 2021 as Emerson University Multan, the Department of English is now offering its own degree programs, launching BS English (Language & Literature).
The hallmark of the English department is to promote quality research competitively at the international level following, of course, all standards of excellence set by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) for all universities in Pakistan. In addition to providing theoretical knowledge in the relevant fields of language, linguistics and literature, the Department of English, strictly pursues to groom a student community along with the modern international ethos of humanistic feelings, enlightened thinking and global intellectual freedom paving the way for progressive creativity, opening new vistas of knowledge, essential for promoting a sense of global peace, harmony and holistic advancement of the world.
Mission Statement
Department of English helps students develop their capacities of quality research, linguistic competency, literary approach and communication skills. The Department is determined to groom learners as proficient users of language and communicate with the world in all its diversity, the local and the global, in order to envision what is achievable academically and professionally and dream up to professional grooming and national growth.
