Supriya Chaudhuri Explained

SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI
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:	Professor of English (Emerita), Jadavpur University
Years Active:	1975-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 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.

Selected works

As editor

• (with Sukanta Chaudhuri) .
• (with Sajni Mukherji) .
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• Book: Chaudhuri . Supriya . Chaudhuri . Sukanta . Petrarch: The Self and the World . 2012 . Jadavpur University Press . 9788186954911. ^[3]
• Book: Tadié . Alexis . Mangan . J.A. . Chaudhuri . Supriya . Sport, Literature, Society: Cultural Historical Studies . 2016 . Routledge . 9781134920242.
• Book: Chaudhuri . Supriya . McDonagh . Josephine . Murray . Brian H. . Rajan . Rajeswari Sunder . Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World . 2017 . Routledge . 9781351620000.

As contributor

• Book: Supriya Chaudhuri . Chaudhuri . Sukanta . The Shakespearean International Yearbook . 2012 . Ashgate . Surrey . "What bloody man is that?" Macbeth, Maqbool, and Shakespeare in India. ^[4]
• Book: Supriya Chaudhuri . Mukherji . Subha . Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World: A Conversation . 2019 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG . 9783110661996 . Eyes Wide Shut: Seeing and Knowing in Othello.
• Book: Supriya Chaudhuri . Pollentier . Caroline . Wilson . Sarah . Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media . 2019 . University Press of Florida . 9 Modernist Literary Communities in 1930s Calcutta: The Politics of Parichay. ^[5]
• Book: Supriya Chaudhuri . Chaudhuri . Sukanta . The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore . 2020 . Cambridge University Press . Imagined Worlds: The Prose Fiction of Rabindranath Tagore. ^[6]
• Book: Supriya Chaudhuri . Goswami . Niranjan . Desiring India: Representations through British and French Eyes 1584-1857 . 2020 . Jadavpur University Press . Desiring Bengal: Trade, Culture, and the First English Traveller to Eastern India. ^[7]
• Book: Supriya Chaudhuri . Trivedi . Poonam . Chakravarti . Paromita . Motohashi . Ted . Asian interventions in global Shakespeare: 'All the world's his stage' . 2021 . Routledge . New York . Global Shakespeare and the question of a world literature.

As translator

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

External links

• Academia.edu profile
• Moral Economies of Wellbeing
• Supriya Chaudhuri on Google Scholar

Notes and References

1. Web site: CV . www.uni-erfurt.de . 24 November 2022.
2. News: Banerjee . Sudeshna . 'Unfit are easy prey' . 24 November 2022 . . August 7, 2013.
3. Review of Petrarch: The Self and the World
   • Schildgen . Brenda Deen . Petrarch: The Self and the World by Supriya Chaudhuri, Sukanta Chaudhuri . . July 2014 . 89 . 3 . 756–758 . 24 November 2022 . The University of Chicago Press. 10.1017/S0038713414000931 . 43577054 .
4. Review of The Shakespearean International Yearbook
   • Szatek . Karoline . Chaudhuri, Sukanta, ed.: The Shakespearean International Yearbook: 12 . The Shakespeare Newsletter . Spring 2013 . 62 . 3 . 24 November 2022. Gale.
5. Reviews of Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media
   • Morse . Daniel Ryan . Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media ed. by Caroline Pollentier and Sarah Wilson (review) . . November 2020 . 27 . 4 . 870–872. 10.1353/mod.2020.0068 . 229355511 .
   • Backus . Margot . Norquist . Grete . Reviewed Work: Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media by Caroline Pollentier, Sarah Wilson . James Joyce Literary Supplement . Spring 2020 . 34 . 1 . 9–10 . 26975128 . 24 November 2022.
6. Reviews of Imagined Worlds
   • Porselvi . P. Mary Vidya . The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore . . Summer 2022 . 45 . 2 . 24 November 2022. Gale.
   • News: Chaudhuri . Rosinka . Tacitus, Tagore: Two studies of a remarkably neglected polymath . 24 November 2022 . . June 11, 2021. Gale.
7. Review of Desiring India
   • News: Mitra . Iman . From wonder to desire: Encounters between India and the West . . November 20, 2020.
8. Review of Relationships (Jogajog)
   • News: Biswas . Ranjita . An uneven relationship . . March 5, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060314233108/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/03/05/stories/2006030500080300.htm . March 14, 2006.