Prof. Isaac Sequeira, Prof. Emeritus UGC

Prof. Isaac Sequeira retired as the Head of the Dept of English, and Dean, Faculty of Arts, Osmania University. He has many research publications to his credit. His publications include The Theme of Initiation in Modern American Fiction (1975), The Manifesto For Humor (1985), Popular Culture: East and West (1991), The Closing of the Frontier (ed - 1994), American studies Today (ed- 1995) to name a few. He has published over eighty scholarly papers on American Studies, Music, and European Literature, both in American and Indian Journals. He has lectured widely in American and Indian Universities and on the UGC Television for the countrywide classroom.

He was the Fulbright Scholar at the University of Utah in 1966, and an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellow at the Bowling Green University, Ohio in 1979. Prof. Sequeira was a visiting professor at the Bowling Green University Ohio in 1979 and 1989. In 1985 he was the UGC national lecturer and since 1991 UGC professor Emeritus. Presently he is the Director of the Indo-American centre for International Studies, formerly American studies research Centre (ASRC) Hyderabad. Prof. Isaac Sequeira is deeply interested in Western Classical music and has a keen understanding of the subject. source