Detail Information about UPESSC 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.
UPESSC Assistant Professor Syllabus 2026 - Overview
| Origination Name |
Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission (UPESSC) |
| Name of Post |
Assistant Professor (English) |
| No. of Vacancy |
111 |
| UPESSC Exam Date 2026 |
19th & 20th November 2026 |
| Category |
Syllabus and Exam Pattern |
| Job Location |
Uttar Pradesh |
| Official Site |
upessc.up.gov.in |
UPESSC Assistant Professor (English) Syllabus 2026
General Knowledge
Unit-1 : Current Affairs :
1. Major events & Current Affairs : National/International
2. Personalities in News
3. Sports News
4. Current Research in the field of Science.
Unit-2 : Teaching and Research Aptitude :
1. Teaching : Nature, Objectives, Need, Methods Evaluation and Factor Affecting Teaching
2. Research : Meaning and Methods
3. Data : Source, Collection and Analysis
4. Role of UGC in Qualitative Development in Higher Education.
Unit-3 : Information and Communication Technology (ICT) :
1. ICT : Meaning, Advantages and Disadvantages
2. Basics of Internet & E-mailing
3. General Abbreviation and Terminology.
Unit-4 : People and Environment :
1. People & Environment Interaction
2. Environmental Depredation : cause & Solution
3. National and International affairs for better Environment
4. Environmental Control.
Unit-5 : Indian History and Geography :
1. Salient Features of Indian Culture
2. Indian National Movement (1857-1950)
3. Origin of Universe and Solar System
4. Indian Geography (General).
Unit-6 : Indian Constitution and Economy :
1. Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles
2. Indian political system : Legislative Executive and Judiciary
3. Election Commission and Public Service Commission
4. Population, Poverty, Unemployment; Planning and Development; Income Tax
5. Agriculture, Industry, Trade; Money, Currency, Banking and Capital Market.
English
UNIT-I : Literature and Society in the following periods
(a) Renaissance
(b) Reformation
(c) Restoration
(d) Neo-classical Period
(e) Romantic Period
(f) Victorion Period
(g) Modern Period
(h) Post-Modern Period
UNIT-II : British Drama
C. Marlowe : Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta
Ben Jonson : Everyman in His Humour
W. Shakespeare : Hamlet, King Lear, The Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Tempest, King Henry IV, Part I & II
John Dryden : All For Love
W. Congreve : The Way of the World
John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
John Galsworthy : Strife, Escape
George Bernard Shaw : Candida, Saint Joan, Man and Superman
John Synge : The Playboy of the Western World
T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral
Sammuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot
John Osborme : Look Back in Anger
Harold Pinter : The Birthday Party
Arnold Wesker : Roots
UNIT-III : British Prose and Fiction
Francis Bacon : ‘Of Truth’, ‘Of Revenge’, ‘Of Studies’, ‘Of Marriage and Single Life’, ‘Of Regimen of Health’
John Milton : ‘Areopagitica’
Addison and Steele : Essays dealing with Coverly Papers from ‘The Spectator’.
Charles Lamb : ‘The South Sea House’, ‘Dream Children’, ‘Christ Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago’, ‘The Convalescent’, ‘Poor Relations’, ‘Imperfect Sympathies’
Thomas Carlyle : ‘The Hero as a Poet’
William Hazlitt : ‘Public Opinion’, ‘On Reading Old Books’, ‘On Reading New Books’
T.B. Macaulay : ‘Minutes on Education’ (1835)
Virginia Woolf : ‘A Room of One’s Own’
George Orwell : ‘Politics and the English Language’
Henry Fielding : Joseph Andrews
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens : Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities
George Eliot : Middle March
Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D’Urbervilles
D.H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers
Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory
William Golding : Lord of the Flies
Iris Murdoch : The Sea
UNIT-IV : British Poetry
G. Chaucer : ‘The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales’
E. Spenser : ‘The Faerie Queene Book I’
John Donne : ‘The Canonization’, ‘The Flea’, ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’, ‘Goe and Catche a Falling Starre’, ‘A Hymme to God the Father’
J. Milton : ‘Paradise Lost’, Book I & II
J. Dryden : ‘Absalom & Achitophel’
A. Pope : ‘The Rape of the Lock’
William Blake : ‘London’
Thomas Gray : ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’
William Wordsworth : ‘The Prelude’ Book I, ‘Tintern Abbey’
S.T. Coleridge : ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Kubla Khan’
P.B. Shelley : ‘Ode to the West Wind’, ‘Adonais’, ‘England in 1819’
John Keats : ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘Ode to Autumn’
A. Tennyson : ‘Lady of Shallot’, ‘Ulysses’, ‘The Princess’, ‘The Lotos Eaters’
Robert Browning : ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’, ‘Prospice’, ‘A Grammarian’s Funeral’, ‘The Last Ride Together’, ‘My Lat Duchess’
Matthew Arnold : ‘The Scholar Gypsy’, ‘Thyrsis’, ‘Dover Beach’
W.B. Yeats : ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘A Prayer for my Daughter’, ‘Among School Children’, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘Lapis Lazuli’, ‘Byzantium’
T.S. Eliot : ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘The Waste Land’, ‘Burnt Norton’
W.H. Auden : ‘Petition’, ‘In Memory of W.B. Yeats’, ‘Consider’,‘The Shield of Achilles’, ‘Partition’, ‘The Unknown Citizen’
Philip Larkin : ‘The Whitsun Weddings’, ‘Ambulances’, ‘Church Going’
Ted Hughes : ‘The Crow’, ‘Hawk Roosting’, ‘The Thought Fox’
UNIT-V : Literary Theory and Criticism
Aristotle : ‘Poetics’
Longinus : ‘On the Sublime’
J. Dryden : ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’
Dr Johnson : ‘Preface to Shakespeare’
W. Wordsworth : ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’
S.T. Coleridge : Biographia Literaria (Chaps XIII, XIV, XVIII)
Matthew Arnold : ‘Study of Poetry’, ‘Shelley’, ‘Wordsworth’, ‘Culture and Anarchy’
T.S. Eliot : ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, ‘Hamlet’, ‘The Metaphysical Poets’
I.A. Richards : The Principles of Literary Criticism
F.R. Leavis : ‘Johnson and Augustanism’, ‘Literature and Society’, ‘Literary Criticism and Philosophy’
Practical Criticism
UNIT-VI : Literary Theory and Literary Criticism
Structuralism, Deconstruction, Historicism, New Historicism, Feminism, Post-Colonialism, Cultural Theory,Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Psycho-analytical Criticism, Marxism, Reader-Response Theory, Technological Criticism, Indian Poetics – Rasa, Dhvani Schools
UNIT-VII : American Literature
R.W. Emerson : ‘Each and All’, ‘Hamatreya’, ‘Brahma’, ‘The Over Soul’
Walt Whitman : ‘One's Self I Sing’, ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed’, ‘A Passage to India’, ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’
Emily Dickinson : ‘I never Lost as Much but Twice’, ‘Success is Counted Sweetest’, ‘I felt a Funeral in my Brain’, ‘If I should Die and you should Live’
Robert Frost : ‘Birches’, ‘Mending Wall’, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’, ‘The Road not Taken’, ‘Mowing’, ‘The Death of the Hired Man'
Wallace Stevens : ‘The Emperor of Ice Cream’, ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bird’, ‘The World as Meditation’
Eugene O' Neill : The Hairy Ape
Tennessee Williams : The Glass Manegerie
Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman
N. Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter
E. Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea
H. Melville : Moby Dick
Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
H.D. Thoreau : Civil Disobedience.
UNIT-VIII : Indian Literature in English
Toru Dutt : ‘Lakshman’, ‘The Lotus’, ‘Our Casuarina Tree’
Sarojini Naidu : ‘Planquin Bearers’, ‘Bangle-sellers’, ‘Weavers’, ‘The Flute-Players’, ‘Of Vrindavan’
R.N. Tagore : Gitanjali
M.K. Gandhi : Hind Swaraj
Swami Vivekanand : ‘Chicago Lecture’
Sri Aurodindo : Savitri Canto I, ‘The Future Poetry’, ‘Is India Civilized’
Nissim Ezekiel : ‘A Time to Change’, ‘Enterprise’, ‘Poet’, ‘Lover’, ‘Birdwatcher’, ‘Background’, ‘Casually’
Kamala Das : ‘An Introduction’, ‘My Grandmother's House’, ‘Summer in Calcutta’
A.K. Ramanujan : ‘Self – Portrait’, ‘A River’, ‘The Fall’, ‘Fear No Fall’
Raja Rao : Kanthapura
R.K. Narayan : The Guide
Anita Desai : Cry the Peacock
Shashi Deshpande : That Long Silence
UNIT-IX : Linguistics, Phonetics & Modern Grammar
1. Properties of Human Language
2. Scope and Branches of Linguistics
3. Language Varieties and Language Change
4. Saussure’s Concept of Linguistic Sign, Immutability and Mutability of Sign.
5. Speech Mechanism and Phonemes in English
6. Consonant Clusters, Syllables and Word Stress
7. English Morphology and Syntax.
8. Chomsky’s Transformational and Generative Grammar and Leech’s Communicative Grammar
9. Stylistics and Literary Criticism, Discourse Analysis, ELT & ESP
10. Language Planning.
UNIT-X : New Literatures in English
Australian and New Zealand Literature
Patrick White : Voss
Sally Morgan : My Place
Peter Porter : ‘Your Attention Please’
Pry Lawler : Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Allen Curnow : ‘Time’, ‘House and Land’
Canadian Literature
M.G. Vassanji : ‘Am I a Canadian Writer ?’
Marshall McLuhan : The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man
Margaret Atwood : Surfacing
A.M. Klein : ‘Indian Reservation : Caughnwaga’
P.K. Page : ‘First Neighbours’
Earle Birney : ‘Bushed’, ‘The Bear on the Delhi Road’
African and Caribbean Literature
Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart
Dennis Brutus : ‘A Common Hate Enriched our Love and US’
Gabriel Okara : The Mystic Drum
David Diop : ‘Africa’
Edward Braithwaite : ‘Tizzic’
Derek Walcott : ‘Ruins of a Great House’
Mervyn Morris : ‘Judas’
Wole Soyinka : Lion and the Jewel
Nadine Gordimer : ‘English Language Literature and Politics in South Africa’
Chimamanda Adichie : Halfofa Yellow Sun
UPESSC Assistant Professor (English) Exam Pattern 2026
Duration : 120 Minutes
Negative Marking : 01
| S.No |
Subject |
No.of Question |
Marks |
| 1. |
General Knowledge |
30 |
90 |
| 2. |
Optional Subject (English) |
90 |
270 |
| |
Total |
120 |
360 |
Exam Date 2026 : 19th & 20th November 2026
Starting Date of Application Form : 08th September 2026
Last Date of Application Form : 07th October 2026
Total Post : 111 
