The project has received a 10,000 pounds grant from the British Council Knowledge Exchange Partnership as well as support from the University of Glasgow's International Partnership Development Fund.
The first joint project will be in English literature and is to be led by Professor Nigel Leask, Regius Chair of English Language and Literature in the University of Glasgow's School of Critical Studies and a Fellow of the British Academy.
“There are certain areas for which the English department at the University of Delhi do not have a lecturer, such as Mediaeval and Renaissance literature, and these are great strengths in our School of Critical Studies,” said Prof Leask.
Plans are well advanced to provide video-linked seminars for senior undergraduate students and/or Masters students at Delhi with a view to eventually having students at both institutions taught simultaneously.
Professor Leask said: “It is an exciting prospect to have students from two continents exchanging ideas on literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare.”
