Dr. Priyanka Dey

Assistant Professor (C)

Department of Linguistics

About Dr. Priyanka Dey

Dr. Priyanka Dey is a linguist and language educator by training, with over seventeen years of teaching and research experience in English Studies, Linguistics, and Communication from renowned organizations like ISI (Kolkata), CIIL (Mysore) etc. Currently serving as Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), West Bengal since 2003, she has been actively engaged in teaching and research that bridge theoretical linguistics with applied, pedagogic, and professional communication practices. Her academic work is centrally concerned with understanding how language functions across literary, academic, and professional domains, and how stylistic and rhetorical choices shape meaning, identity, and communicative effectiveness.
With a PhD in Stylistics from the University of Calcutta, Dr. Dey’s research expertise spans stylistics, ecostylistics, English Language Teaching (ELT), rhetoric and composition, applied linguistics, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), phonetics, literary theory and discourse studies. Her work integrates close textual analysis with pedagogic innovation, often drawing on interdisciplinary frameworks that connect linguistics, literature, gender studies, ecocriticism, and cognitive approaches to language. A distinctive feature of her scholarship lies in her sustained engagement with stylistics as a tool for language teaching, academic writing, and critical interpretation, particularly in ESL contexts. Dr. Dey has taught a wide range of courses at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels, including stylistics, sociolinguistics, morphology, syntax, English for research paper writing, research methodology, English for technical communication, business and professional communication, technical communication, and English literature.
In addition to her full-time academic role at MAKAUT, she has been serving as the Guest or Visiting Faculty in several reputed institutions, including the University of Calcutta, Jadavpur University, The Sanskrit College and University, and Bethune PG College. She has also contributed as an Academic Counsellor for IGNOU and previously held senior academic and administrative positions, including Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Swami Vivekananda University. She is interested to guide scholars in both Linguistics and Literature. Her works appear in Scopus-indexed and UGC-approved journals, and she regularly reviews for leading academic publishers including Oxford, Wiley, and Elsevier.

Awards/ Achievements
 Selected as Research project person in Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata in September, 2009.
 Selected as Intern in CIIL, Mysore in May, 2009.
 Awarded Research Fellowship by International School of Dravidian Linguistics, Trivandrum, Kerala in March, 2008.

Publications view at- Google Scholar

Published Book Chapters: (Selected)
1. Dey, P. (2016). Stylistics in language teaching- A rhetoric-based approach to happy learning and effective communication of English. In Arora, S. (Eds.). Teaching English from classes to masses (pp. 85-92). UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2. Dey, P. (2013). Style the spokesperson of personality. In Kirubahar, Samuel J., Kalidass, A., Subhasini, A. (Eds.). English language teaching: Techniques and hurdles (pp. 266-276). Tamil Nadu, India: VHNSN College.
3. Dey, P. (2012). Rhetorical devices’ role to develop interpersonal relationships in organizations. In Ganguly, D., Santra, A., Kundu, K. (et.al.) (Eds.). Contemporary
technological, social and management issues-Theoretical and conceptual perspectives (pp.112-121). India: SPS Education Pvt. Ltd.
4. Dey, P. (2025). Nature, Gender, and Disability: Interrogating the Marginalised Voices in Alice Walker’s Works from Intersectional Perspective. In Process. (Under Publication by Peter Lang International Publishers)

UG & PG Courses/Papers Taught (in MAKAUT):
 Academic Writing
 Expository Writing
 Critical Reading using English
 English for Research Paper Writing
 Research Methodology
 Pedagogy Studies
 English for Technical Communication
 Life Skills and Personality Development
 Soft Skills for Professional Development
 Business Communication