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HPSC Assistant Professor (English) 2026 Syllabus 2026, Exam Pattern
HPSC Assistant Professor (English) Syllabus 2026, Exam Pattern, Exam Date 2026
Detail Information about HPSC has published notification 2026 for the recruitment of Assistant Professor (English) vacancies. Those Candidates who are Interested to the following vacancy and completed all Eligibility Criteria can read the Notification & Apply Online. In this page we provide the Complete Syllabus of this Recruitment with Latest Update Exam Pattern and the Exam Date also.
HPSC Assistant Professor Syllabus 2026 - Overview
| Organization | Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) |
| Name of the Post | Assistant Professor (English) |
| No of Posts | Notified Soon |
| Job Location | Haryana |
| Article Category | Syllabus and Exam Pattern |
| Official Website | www.hpsc.gov.in |
HPSC Assistant Professor (English) Syllabus 2026
General Knowledge :
1. General Awareness
2. General mental ability & Reasoning
Concerned Subject (English) :
Unit 1: Drama
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
Kalidasa: Abhigyan Shakuntalam
Plautus: The Pot of Gold
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare: Hamlet; Twelfth Night; Henry IV Part I, The Merchant of Venice
John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Ben Jonson: Volpone or the Fox
Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The School for Scandal
William Congreve: The Way of the World
George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man
John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Eugene O'Neill: The Iceman Cometh
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House
Girish Karnard: Tuglag
Mahesh Dattani: Final Solutions
Unit II: Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene
Philip Sidney: Sonnet 1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show")
Sonnet 2 ("Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot")
Sonnet 5 ("It is most true that eyes are formed to serve")
Sonnet 31 ("With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies")
Sonnet 39 ("Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace")
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18, Sonnet 24, "Venus and Adonis"
John Donne: "The Flea", "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning", "The Ecstasy", "The
Good Morrow"
John Milton: Paradise Lost Book I
Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"
John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel
Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
Samuel Johnson: "The Vanity of Human Wishes"
William Wordsworth: "Tintern Abbey", "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
P. B. Shelley: "Ode to West Wind", "To a Skylark"
John Keats: "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode to Autumn"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Lotus Eaters", "Ulysses"", "In Memoriam A.H.H."
Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess", "The Last Ride Together", "Lost Mistress"
Matthew Arnold: "Dover Beach", "The Scholar-Gipsy
D. G. Rossetti: "The Blessed Damozel", "The Portrait"
W.B. Yeats: "The Second Coming", ", "When You Are Old", "A Prayer for My Daughter"
T. S. Eliot: "The Waste Land", "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
W. H. Auden: "In Memory of W. B. Yeats", ', "The Shield of Achilles"
Sylvia Plath: "Daddy", ", "Lady Lazarus"
Walt Whitman: "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
Emily Dickinson: "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", "Success is Counted Sweetest", "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed""
Nissim Ezekiel: "Night of the Scorpion", "Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T. S.", "The Patriot", "The Professor"
Kamala Das: "The Freaks", "A Hot Noon in Malabar", "The Sunshine Cat", "The Looking Glass"
Unit III: Fiction and Short Stories
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens: Hard Times
George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d' Urbervilles
D.H. Lawrence: Sons and the Lovers
Emile Zola: Look
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
E. M. Forster: A Passage to India
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
Alice Walker: The Colour Purple
Raja Rao: Kanthapura
Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable
R. K. Narayan: The Guide
Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines
Shashi Deshpande: That Long Silence
Anita Desai: Rosarito
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Mistress of Spices
Patrick White: The Twyborn Affair
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Munshi Premchand: Kormabhoomi
V.S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas
Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children
O. Henry: "The Gift of the Magi"
Edgar Allan Poe: "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Katherine Mansfield: "The Garden Party"
Guy de Maupassant: "The Necklace"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez:"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"
Rabindranatah Tagore: "Kabuliwala"
Ruskin Bond: "The Blue Umbrella'
Munshi Premchand. "The Shroud" (Kafan)
Unit IV: Non-Fictional Prose
Francis Bacon: "Of Studies", "Of Truth", "Of Friendship", "Of Love"
Richard Steele and Joseph Addison: "Duelling", "Of the Club", "Female Orators", "Aims of the Spectator"
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Self-Reliance, ""The American Scholar"
Aurobindo: The Foundations of Indian Culture
M. K Gandhi: My Experiments with Truth
S Radhakrishnan: The Hindu View of Life
APJ Kalam: Wings of Fire
Nelson Mandela: "Long Walk to Freedom"
Unit V:Language: Basic Concepts, Theories, and Pedagogy, English in Use
Linguistics: Phonetics, Syntax, Semantics, Morphology
Theories of Language Acquisition: Behaviourism, Nativism, and Constructivism
Structuralist and Functionalist Approaches to Language
Methods of Teaching English (e.g., Grammar-Translation Method, Communicative Language Teaching)
Language skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing (LSRW)
Language Assessment Techniques
Functional English for Communication
Business and Academic English
English for Specific Purpose (e.g.. Legal, Technical, Medical)
Unit VI:English in India: History, Evolution, and Futures
Arrival of English in India: Colonial Influence and the British Education System
Role of English in the Nationalist Movement and Post-Independence Era
English as a Second Language in India
Regional Influences on Indian English
Role of English in Education, Media, and Governance
Globalization and the Evolving Role of English in India
Challenges of Preserving Indigenous Languages
Innovations in Teaching English in the Indian Context
Unit VII: Cultural Studies
Raymond Williams
Richard Hoggart
Roland Barthes
Michel Foucault
Stuart Hall
Fredric Jameson
Edward Said
Homi K. Bhabha
Stephen Greenblatt
Unit VIII: Literary Criticism
Indian Aesthetics: Theory of Rasa, and Theory of Dhavani
Aristotle: Poetics
Longinus: On the Sublime
Horace: Ars Poetica
John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
William Wordsworth: "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographia Literaria
Matthew Arnold: "The Study of Poetry"
Henry James: "The Art of Fiction"
Saussure: "Nature of the Linguistic Sign"
T.S. Eliot: "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
1. A. Richards: "Two Uses of Language"
Unit IX: Literary Theory Post World War II
Marxism
Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
Postmodernism
Feminism, Feminist Theory, and Post-Feminism
Psychoanalysis Reader-Response Theory
Postcolonial Theory, and Neocolonialism
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
Ecocriticism
Queer Theory
Unit X: Research Methods and Materials in English
Types of Research: Qualitative, Quantitative, Mixed Methods
Identifying Research Gaps and Formulating Questions
Textual Analysis and Critical Reading
Archival Research and Primary/Secondary Sources
Use of Digital Tools for Research (e.g., JSTOR, MLA Databases)
Structuring Academic Papers and Theses
Citation Styles (e.g., MLA, APA)
Ethical Considerations in Research
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
Kalidasa: Abhigyan Shakuntalam
Plautus: The Pot of Gold
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare: Hamlet; Twelfth Night; Henry IV Part I, The Merchant of Venice
John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Ben Jonson: Volpone or the Fox
Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The School for Scandal
William Congreve: The Way of the World
George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man
John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Eugene O'Neill: The Iceman Cometh
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House
Girish Karnard: Tuglag
Mahesh Dattani: Final Solutions
Unit II: Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene
Philip Sidney: Sonnet 1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show")
Sonnet 2 ("Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot")
Sonnet 5 ("It is most true that eyes are formed to serve")
Sonnet 31 ("With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies")
Sonnet 39 ("Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace")
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18, Sonnet 24, "Venus and Adonis"
John Donne: "The Flea", "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning", "The Ecstasy", "The
Good Morrow"
John Milton: Paradise Lost Book I
Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"
John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel
Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
Samuel Johnson: "The Vanity of Human Wishes"
William Wordsworth: "Tintern Abbey", "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
P. B. Shelley: "Ode to West Wind", "To a Skylark"
John Keats: "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode to Autumn"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Lotus Eaters", "Ulysses"", "In Memoriam A.H.H."
Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess", "The Last Ride Together", "Lost Mistress"
Matthew Arnold: "Dover Beach", "The Scholar-Gipsy
D. G. Rossetti: "The Blessed Damozel", "The Portrait"
W.B. Yeats: "The Second Coming", ", "When You Are Old", "A Prayer for My Daughter"
T. S. Eliot: "The Waste Land", "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
W. H. Auden: "In Memory of W. B. Yeats", ', "The Shield of Achilles"
Sylvia Plath: "Daddy", ", "Lady Lazarus"
Walt Whitman: "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
Emily Dickinson: "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", "Success is Counted Sweetest", "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed""
Nissim Ezekiel: "Night of the Scorpion", "Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T. S.", "The Patriot", "The Professor"
Kamala Das: "The Freaks", "A Hot Noon in Malabar", "The Sunshine Cat", "The Looking Glass"
Unit III: Fiction and Short Stories
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens: Hard Times
George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d' Urbervilles
D.H. Lawrence: Sons and the Lovers
Emile Zola: Look
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
E. M. Forster: A Passage to India
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
Alice Walker: The Colour Purple
Raja Rao: Kanthapura
Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable
R. K. Narayan: The Guide
Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines
Shashi Deshpande: That Long Silence
Anita Desai: Rosarito
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Mistress of Spices
Patrick White: The Twyborn Affair
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Munshi Premchand: Kormabhoomi
V.S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas
Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children
O. Henry: "The Gift of the Magi"
Edgar Allan Poe: "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Katherine Mansfield: "The Garden Party"
Guy de Maupassant: "The Necklace"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez:"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"
Rabindranatah Tagore: "Kabuliwala"
Ruskin Bond: "The Blue Umbrella'
Munshi Premchand. "The Shroud" (Kafan)
Unit IV: Non-Fictional Prose
Francis Bacon: "Of Studies", "Of Truth", "Of Friendship", "Of Love"
Richard Steele and Joseph Addison: "Duelling", "Of the Club", "Female Orators", "Aims of the Spectator"
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Self-Reliance, ""The American Scholar"
Aurobindo: The Foundations of Indian Culture
M. K Gandhi: My Experiments with Truth
S Radhakrishnan: The Hindu View of Life
APJ Kalam: Wings of Fire
Nelson Mandela: "Long Walk to Freedom"
Unit V:Language: Basic Concepts, Theories, and Pedagogy, English in Use
Linguistics: Phonetics, Syntax, Semantics, Morphology
Theories of Language Acquisition: Behaviourism, Nativism, and Constructivism
Structuralist and Functionalist Approaches to Language
Methods of Teaching English (e.g., Grammar-Translation Method, Communicative Language Teaching)
Language skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing (LSRW)
Language Assessment Techniques
Functional English for Communication
Business and Academic English
English for Specific Purpose (e.g.. Legal, Technical, Medical)
Unit VI:English in India: History, Evolution, and Futures
Arrival of English in India: Colonial Influence and the British Education System
Role of English in the Nationalist Movement and Post-Independence Era
English as a Second Language in India
Regional Influences on Indian English
Role of English in Education, Media, and Governance
Globalization and the Evolving Role of English in India
Challenges of Preserving Indigenous Languages
Innovations in Teaching English in the Indian Context
Unit VII: Cultural Studies
Raymond Williams
Richard Hoggart
Roland Barthes
Michel Foucault
Stuart Hall
Fredric Jameson
Edward Said
Homi K. Bhabha
Stephen Greenblatt
Unit VIII: Literary Criticism
Indian Aesthetics: Theory of Rasa, and Theory of Dhavani
Aristotle: Poetics
Longinus: On the Sublime
Horace: Ars Poetica
John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
William Wordsworth: "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographia Literaria
Matthew Arnold: "The Study of Poetry"
Henry James: "The Art of Fiction"
Saussure: "Nature of the Linguistic Sign"
T.S. Eliot: "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
1. A. Richards: "Two Uses of Language"
Unit IX: Literary Theory Post World War II
Marxism
Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
Postmodernism
Feminism, Feminist Theory, and Post-Feminism
Psychoanalysis Reader-Response Theory
Postcolonial Theory, and Neocolonialism
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
Ecocriticism
Queer Theory
Unit X: Research Methods and Materials in English
Types of Research: Qualitative, Quantitative, Mixed Methods
Identifying Research Gaps and Formulating Questions
Textual Analysis and Critical Reading
Archival Research and Primary/Secondary Sources
Use of Digital Tools for Research (e.g., JSTOR, MLA Databases)
Structuring Academic Papers and Theses
Citation Styles (e.g., MLA, APA)
Ethical Considerations in Research
HPSC Assistant Professor (English) Exam Pattern 2026
(Screening Test)
Duration : 120 Minutes
Negative Marking : 0.25
| S.No | Subject | No.of Question | Marks |
| 1 | Concerned Subject (English) | 90 | 90 |
| 2 | General Awareness, General Mental ability & Reasoning | 10 | 10 |
| Total | 100 | 100 |
Subject Knowledge Test (Descriptive) :
Duration: 3 Hours
| S.No | Subject | Marks | Duration |
| 1. | English | 150 | 03 Hour |
| Total | 150 | 03 Hour |
Interview:
Mode: Oral
Marking Scheme:
Weightage: 12.5% of final score
Exam Date : Notified Soon
Strating Date of Application Form : Notified Soon
Last Date of Application Form : Notified Soon
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