Supriya Chaudhuri
Supriya Chaudhuri (Bengali: সুপ্রিয়া চৌধুরী; born 1953) is an Indian scholar of English literature. She is Professor Emerita at Kolkata's Jadavpur University.[2]
SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI | |
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| Born | 1953 (age 69–70) |
| Nationality |  India |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Education | BA, Presidency College, University of Calcutta BA, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford MA, University of Oxford D Phil, University of Oxford[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of English (Emerita), Jadavpur University |
| Years active | 1975-present |
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 literary theory, 18th century British literature, modernism, and the Renaissance. She specializes in the history of ideas.
She was an Oxford badminton half-blue in 1975, University of Oxford. She holds a black belt in 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. ISBN 9788186954911.[3]
- Tadié, Alexis; Mangan, J.A.; Chaudhuri, Supriya, eds. (2016). Sport, Literature, Society: Cultural Historical Studies. Routledge. ISBN 9781134920242.
- Chaudhuri, Supriya; McDonagh, Josephine; Murray, Brian H.; Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder, eds. (2017). Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World. Routledge. ISBN 9781351620000.
As contributor
- Supriya Chaudhuri (2012). ""What bloody man is that?" Macbeth, Maqbool, and Shakespeare in India". In Chaudhuri, Sukanta (ed.). The Shakespearean International Yearbook. Surrey: Ashgate.[4]
- Supriya Chaudhuri (2019). "Eyes Wide Shut: Seeing and Knowing in Othello". In Mukherji, Subha (ed.). Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World: A Conversation. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 9783110661996.
- Supriya Chaudhuri (2019). "9 Modernist Literary Communities in 1930s Calcutta: The Politics of Parichay". In Pollentier, Caroline; Wilson, Sarah (eds.). Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media. University Press of Florida.[5]
- Supriya Chaudhuri (2020). "Imagined Worlds: The Prose Fiction of Rabindranath Tagore". In Chaudhuri, Sukanta (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore. Cambridge University Press.[6]
- Supriya Chaudhuri (2020). "Desiring Bengal: Trade, Culture, and the First English Traveller to Eastern India". In Goswami, Niranjan (ed.). Desiring India: Representations through British and French Eyes 1584-1857. Jadavpur University Press.[7]
- Supriya Chaudhuri (2021). "Global Shakespeare and the question of a world literature". In Trivedi, Poonam; Chakravarti, Paromita; Motohashi, Ted (eds.). Asian interventions in global Shakespeare: 'All the world's his stage'. New York: Routledge.
As translator
- Rabindranath Tagore, Relationships (Jogajog), translated by Supriya Chaudhuri, The Oxford Tagore Translation[8]
References
- "CV" (PDF). www.uni-erfurt.de. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- Banerjee, Sudeshna (7 August 2013). "'Unfit are easy prey'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- Review of Petrarch: The Self and the World
- Schildgen, Brenda Deen (July 2014). "Petrarch: The Self and the World by Supriya Chaudhuri, Sukanta Chaudhuri". Speculum. The University of Chicago Press. 89 (3): 756–758. doi:10.1017/S0038713414000931. JSTOR 43577054. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- Review of The Shakespearean International Yearbook
- Szatek, Karoline (Spring 2013). "Chaudhuri, Sukanta, ed.: The Shakespearean International Yearbook: 12". The Shakespeare Newsletter. 62 (3). Retrieved 24 November 2022 – via Gale.
- Reviews of Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media
- Morse, Daniel Ryan (November 2020). "Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media ed. by Caroline Pollentier and Sarah Wilson (review)". Modernism/Modernity. 27 (4): 870–872. doi:10.1353/mod.2020.0068. S2CID 229355511. ProQuest 2474490047
- Backus, Margot; Norquist, Grete (Spring 2020). "Reviewed Work: Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media by Caroline Pollentier, Sarah Wilson". James Joyce Literary Supplement. 34 (1): 9–10. JSTOR 26975128. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- Reviews of Imagined Worlds
- Porselvi, P. Mary Vidya (Summer 2022). "The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore". Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. 45 (2). Retrieved 24 November 2022 – via Gale.
- Chaudhuri, Rosinka (11 June 2021). "Tacitus, Tagore: Two studies of a remarkably neglected polymath". Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 24 November 2022 – via Gale.
- Review of Desiring India
- Mitra, Iman (20 November 2020). "From wonder to desire: Encounters between India and the West". The Telegraph. ProQuest 2462352973
- Review of Relationships (Jogajog)
- Biswas, Ranjita (5 March 2006). "An uneven relationship". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 14 March 2006.
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