Supriya Chaudhuri

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SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI
Born1953 (age 70–71)
Nationality India
CitizenshipIndian
EducationBA, Presidency College, University of Calcutta
BA, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford
MA, University of Oxford
D Phil, University of Oxford[1]
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Occupation(s)Professor of English (Emerita), Jadavpur University
Years active1975-present

Supriya Chaudhuri (Bengali: সুপ্রিয়া চৌধুরী; born 1953) is an Indian scholar of English literature. She is Professor Emerita at Kolkata's Jadavpur University.[2]

Biography

She was born in Delhi, India and grew up in Europe and India. She was educated at South Point High School, Presidency College, Calcutta and then University of Oxford, where she was a State Scholar from 1973 to 1975, taking a First in English. After serving a few years at Presidency as Assistant Professor of English, she returned to Oxford on an Inlaks Scholarship (1978–81) for doctoral research in Renaissance Studies. She was awarded D.Phil. in 1981. She joined the faculty of Jadavpur University after having taught at Presidency College and Calcutta University. She was in charge of the UGC funded research programme of the university's English Department. Her scholarship ranges over many fields, notably

history of ideas
.

She was an Oxford

Kyokushinkaikan karate.[2]

Selected works

As editor

  • (with Sukanta Chaudhuri) Writing Over: Medieval to Renaissance.
  • (with Sajni Mukherji) Literature and Gender: Essays for Jasodhara Bagchi, Orient Longman, 2002.
  • Literature and Philosophy: Essays in Connexion, Papyrus, 2006.
  • Chaudhuri, Supriya; Chaudhuri, Sukanta, eds. (2012). Petrarch: The Self and the World. Jadavpur University Press.
  • Tadié, Alexis; Mangan, J.A.; Chaudhuri, Supriya, eds. (2016). Sport, Literature, Society: Cultural Historical Studies. Routledge. .
  • Chaudhuri, Supriya; McDonagh, Josephine; Murray, Brian H.; Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder, eds. (2017). Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World. Routledge. .

As contributor

As translator

  • Rabindranath Tagore, Relationships (Jogajog), translated by Supriya Chaudhuri, The Oxford Tagore Translation[8]

References

  1. ^ "CV" (PDF). www.uni-erfurt.de. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  2. ^ a b Banerjee, Sudeshna (7 August 2013). "'Unfit are easy prey'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  3. ^ Review of Petrarch: The Self and the World
  4. ^ Review of The Shakespearean International Yearbook
  5. ^ Reviews of Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media
  6. ^ Reviews of Imagined Worlds
  7. ^ Review of Desiring India
    • Mitra, Iman (20 November 2020). "From wonder to desire: Encounters between India and the West".
      ProQuest 2462352973
  8. ^ Review of Relationships (Jogajog)

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