Syed Haroon Ahmed Shah, an MPhil research scholar of the department of English, has published his research paper entitled “Hegemonic Change and the Role of the Intellectual in Atlas Shrugged” in the July 2021 issue of the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies. The journal is published by the Pennsylvania State University Press and placed in the X category by Higher Education Commission. The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies is the only non-partisan, double-blind peer-reviewed, university-press-published, scholarly periodical devoted to the study of Ayn Rand and her times.
Shah’s research work finding place in such an acclaimed platform is reflective of the general zeitgeist at the department of English: which has as its kernel the research-oriented training and the research-friendly environment.