The Department of English and Communications, having come into existence in the year 2005, has been functional ever since its inception in an effective manner.

In the first place, by way of carrying out teaching at PG / Integrated English and conducting research at Ph.D. and M.Phil levels, and also by way of offering service courses in General English to the UG students of various departments on the campus. Along with the onus of fulfilling the fundamental job, the department has been keeping itself busy in playing its additional role in contributing to the various academic, cultural and administrative activities of the university.

Secondly, the Department of English and Communications has been in the forefront in serving the cause of Dravidian University — promoting Dravidian Languages, Literatures and Cultures — in the manner of teaching Dravidian Literatures in English translation as part of curricula and offering / publishing critical and scholarly output on Dravidian Literatures in English translations, and more importantly conducting the translation of Telugu Literature into English. Among them, the prominent one to be cited here is the translation of Classics of Telugu Literature into English through a UGC sponsored departmental project. In the same breath, it is to be put on record that the Department faculty served as Editor to the flagship journal of the university, Dravidian Studies, at different periods of time.

Thirdly, the faculty of the Department of English and Communications have been fertile and productive in a sustained manner which resulted in conducting qualitative research and publication of articles in reputed journals and books by reputed publishers. The sustained academic effort and zeal can be evidenced among many other ways including a faculty member acquiring D.Litt.

Fourthly, though with a modest sense of pride it can be stated that the faculty have been invited as resource persons by various universities within the state and outside the state. Also, a faculty member of the department has had international teaching experience by way of teaching in four universities outside India for about nine years. The same member of the faculty has had the recognition of being invited thrice as an external examiner for conducting Ph.D. viva voce.

Fifthly, the Department of English and Communications, with its established English Language / Communication Skills Lab, has engaged itself in training its students in sharpening their communication skills in English. Initially, while doing so, the department attempted to impart courses in communication skills to the students of other Language Departments located in Bhasha Bhavan of the university.

Sixthly, the Department engaging itself in Extension Activity by way of bridging the gap between the university and the society around itself and far, and thereby serving the cause of students outside the university, within and outside the state and across the nation, has conducted twice Outreach Programmes through online mode. In the same breath, it can be stated that the Department is one of the few departments that has had international students on its roll with ICCR sponsorship.