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UPPSC Assistant Professor (English) Syllabus 2026, Exam Pattern

UPPSC Assistant Professor (English) Syllabus 2026, Exam Pattern, Exam Date 2026

Detail Information about UPPSC 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.
 
UPPSC Assistant Professor Syllabus 2026 - Overview
 
Organization Name Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC)
Post Name Assistant Professor (English)
No. of Posts 92
Mode of Application Online
Category Syllabus and Exam Pattern
Selection Process Preliminary Examination, Mains Exam, Interview
Job Location Uttar Pradesh
Official Website uppsc.up.nic.in
 
UPPSC Assistant Professor (English) Syllabus 2026
 
General Studies :
 
1. General Science.
2. Current Events of National and International Importance.
3. History of India (Including Indian National Movement).
4. Indian Polity and Economy.
5. Geography- Indian and world.
6. Mental ability and Statistical data analysis.
Candidates are expected to have general awareness about the above topics with special reference to Uttar Pradesh.
 
Optional Subject :

ENGLISH LITERATURE (16 Century to 20 Century)

Unit-I:

Forms of Literature, Background to Various Literary Trends, and Movements
(16 Century to 20 Century)

Unit-II :

Geofrey Chaucer :  Prologue to The Canterbury Tales m(Modern version)
John Donne : “The Canonization”
                          “AValedication: Forbidding Morning”
                          “The Ecstasy”
Andrew Marvell : “To His Coy Mistress”
Edmund Spenser : “Epithalamion”
John Milton : Paradise Lost: Book I
Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock(Canto 1 and 2)
William Blake:  “The Tyger”
                             “The Lamb”
William Wordsworth :  “ Lines Composed a Few Miles Above TinternAbbey” “Ode: On Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : “The Rime of theAncient Mariner”
                                                “Christabel”
John Keats : “Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale”
P. B. Shelley : Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats”
                                          “To a skylark”
Alfred Lord Tennyson : “The Defence of Lucknow”
                                           “Ulysses”
                                           “The Lotus-Eaters”

Robert Browning : “Last Ride Together”
                                  “My Last Duchess”
                                  “Prospice”

Matthew Arnold : “Dover Beach”
                                 “Scholar Gypsy”
T. S. Eliot : The Waste Land
W. B. Yeats : “The Second Coming”
                        “Sailing to Byzantium”
                        “Prayer for my Daughter
Seamus Heaney : “Digging”
                                “Punishment”
W HAuden : “In the Memory of W B Yeats”
                       “Musee des BeauxArts”
                       “The Shield ofAchilles”
Philip Larkin : “Church Going”
                           “Poetry of Departures”
Ted Hughes : “The Thought Fox”
                         “ Hawk Roosting”

Unit-III : Drama

Christopher Marlowe : Dr. Faustus
William Shakespeare : Hamlet Twelfth Night
John Webster : Duchess of Malfi
Ben Johnson : Volpone
Aphra Behn : The Rover
Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
G B Shaw : Candida
T S Eliot : The Family Reunion
Harold Pinter : The Homecoming
Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot
John Osborne : Look Back inAnger

Unit-IV: Fiction and Prose

Henry Fielding : Joseph Andrews
JaneAusten : Pride and Prejudice
George Eliot : Silas Marner
Charles Dickens : Hard Times : For These Times
Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Joseph Conrad : Heart of Darkness
James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Virginia Woolf : To the Lighthouse
D. H. Lawrence : The Rainbow
William Golding : Lord of the Flies
Graham Green : The Power and The Glory
Francis Bacon : “Of Truth”
                             “Of Studies”
                            “Of Adversity”
JosephAddison : “The Spectator'sAccount of Himself”
                               “Sir Roger at Home”
Thomas Carlyle : “The Hero as Man of Letters”
James Stuart Mill : “On Liberty”
Bertrand Russell : “Science and Values” and “Science and War”(from The Impact of Science on Society)

Unit-V: Linguistics

i. Descriptive Linguistics; Generative Linguistics
ii. Scope and branches of Linguistics: Socio Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics, Stylistics
iii. Language Variations: Direct, Register, Pidgins, Creoles ProcessesofstandardizationofLanguage,LanguageTypology
iv. Major Concepts: Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic, Synchronic and Diachronic, Competence and Performance, Innate Hypothesis
v. Approaches, Linguistic Principles and Techniques in Language Teaching
vi. Methods of Language Teaching: Grammar Translation Method, Direct Method, Audio-Lingual Method, Communicative Language Teaching.
vii. Teaching of Language Skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
viii. ErrorAnalysis;TechnologicalAids in Language, Language Testing

Unit-VI: Indian Writing in English :

Toru Dutta : “The Louts”
Rabindranath Tagore : “Thou hast made me Endless”
                                          “Leave thisChanting and Singing”
                                          “I am like a Remnant of Cloud”
Sarojini Naidu : “Song of Radha”, “The Milk Maid”
Raja Rao : On the Ganga Ghat and Other Stories
Girish Karnad : Nagamandala
Salman Rushdie : Midnight's Children
Arundhati Roy : The God of Small Things
Anita Desai : The Fire on the Mountain
Jayata Mahapatra : “Hunger”
                                    “Grandfather”
                                    A. K. Ramanujan : “ARiver”
                                   “Another View of Grace”
Kamala Das : “An Introduction”
                         “The Looking Glass”

Unit-VII: American Literature

Walt Whitman : “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd”
                              “One's-Self I Sing”
Robert Frost : “Mending Wall”,
                          “AfterApple Picking”,
                          “The Gift Outright”
EdgarAllen Poe : “The Raven”
Arthur Miller : Death of Salesman
Herman Melville : Moby Dick
Sylvia Plath : “Lady Lazarus”
                        “Daddy”
Ernest Hemingway : AFarewell toArms
Tennessee Williams : A Glass Menagerie
Langston Hughes : “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
                                   “Harlem”

Unit-VIII: New Literature in English

A D Hope : “The Death of the Bird”
Patrick White : The Solid Mandala
MargaretAtwood : The BlindAssassin
Derek Walcott : “AFar Cry fromAfrica”
                             “Ruins of a Great House”
ChinuaAchebe : Things FallApart
V S Naipaul : A House for Mr. Biswas
Wole Soyinka : A Dance of the Forest
Ngugi wa Thiong'o : “Decolonising the Mind”

Unit-IX: Women Writing

Jean Rhys : Wide Sargasso Sea
Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyer
Tony Morrison : Beloved
Virginia Woolf : ARoom of One's Own
Chimamanda NgoziAdichie : “We ShouldAll Be Feminists”
Partibha Ray : Yajnaseni
Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman : Women to Men
Gwendolyn Brooks : “ASunset of the City”
Adrienne Rich : “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law”
Vinda Nabar : Caste as Woman (Chapter OneOur Women,Their Women)

Unit-X: Literature in Translation

Main Concepts : Source Text; Target Text;
Foreignization; Domestication;
Equivalence; Skopos Theory;
Kinds of Translation

Translation, Theory and Practice :

1. “Translation Studies” Chapter One of Andre Lefevere's Translating Literature.
2. “India, England, France: A (Post-) Colonial Translation Triangle by Harish Trivedi.
3. “Translation and Society: The Emergence of a Conceptual Relationship” by Daniel Simeoni.
4. “The Task of Translator” by Walter Benjamin

Saadat Hasan Manto : “Toba Tek Singh”
Munshi Premchand : The Gift of a Cow Translated by Gordon.
C. Roadarmel.
Vijay Tendulkar : Silence! The Court is in Session
Fakir Mohan Senapati : SixAcers and a Third
Gustave Flaubert : Madam Bovary
Fyodor Dostoyevsky : Notes from Underground
Charles Baudelaire : “TheFlowersofEvil”:fleursduma

Unit-XI: Literary Theory and Criticism

Bharat Muni : The Natyasastra (Chapter VI and VII)
Philip Sidney : An Apology for Poetry
Samuel Johnson : “Preface to Shakespeare”
Willam Wordsworth : “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
S. T. Coleridge : Biographia Literaria Chapters XIII
T.S. Eliot : “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
Ferdinand de Saussure : “Nature of the linguistic sign”
Jacques Derrida : “Structure, sign and play in the discourse ofthe human sciences”
LouisAlthusser : “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”
Elaine Showalter : “Feminist criticism in the wilderness”
Edwar Said : “Introduction” to Orientalism
Homi K. Bhabha : “Introduction : Location of Culture” from The Location of Culture
Gayatri C. Spivak : “Can the Subaltern Speak ?”
Richard Kerridge : “EcocriticalApproachesto Literary Form and Genre”
 
UPPSC Assistant Professor (English) Exam Pattern 2026
 
Preliminary Examination

Duration : 120 Minutes

Negative Marking : 0.33

 
S.No Subject No.of uestion Marks
1 General Studies 30 60
2 Optional Subject (English) 90 90
  Total 120 150

Mains Examination

Duration : 180 Minutes

 
S.No Subject No.of Question Marks
1 Optional Subject (English) (10+10) 20
Section A: 10 Short Answer Questions (125 words each)
Section B: 10 Long Answer Questions (200 words each)
(80+120) 200
Section A: 10 questions x 8 marks = 80 marks
Section B: 10 questions x 12 marks = 120 marks
  Total 120 150

Mains Exam Date 2026 : 17 September 2026

Starting Date of Application Form : 04th September 2025

Last Date of Application Form : 06th October 2025

Total Post : 92
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