Former Professor of Osmania University passes away

Prof. Radhe Shyam Sharma, joined the University as a Lecturer in English in 1965 and was instrumental in organising the Young Lecturers Association

Hyderabad: Prof. Radhe Shyam Sharma, former Head of English Department, Osmania University and former Dean, Humanities, Osmania University, passed away on May 10 after a brief illness.

Born in Tinsukia Assam, Prof Sharma graduated from Gauhati University in 1962 in the throes of the Chinese aggression in India’s North East. Through a special provision of the Government of India, which facilitated students from Assam to pursue studies in Indian universities, Prof. Sharma obtained his post graduate degree in English Literature from Osmania University and bagged the William Shakespeare Gold Medal in 1965.

He joined the University as a Lecturer in English in 1965 and was instrumental in organising the Young Lecturers Association. He pursued a second Master’s degree in Shakespearean Studies for his thesis on King Lear and later completed his PhD at Osmania for his thesis on DH Lawrence.

Prof Sharma was recipient of the British Council Scholarship in 1973 and the scholarship of the American Council of Learned Societies under the Fulbright programme. He lectured in several American Universities and in Mexico. He was proactive in restructuring the former American Studies Research centre going through a financial crisis by planning inter disciplinary courses

Besides his contributions to British, English and American literature, he engrossed into Hindi poetry. His contributions to research writing and teaching remain exemplary and his work on Anita Desai remains one of the earliest academic studies of the renowned author that spurred and encouraged research and writing in the field of Indian Writings in English.

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