Swapan Kumar Chakravorty
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Swapan Kumar Chakravorty (Bengali
: স্বপন কুমার চক্রবর্তী) (born 29 July 1954) is Director General of the National Library of India
, Kolkata
. He is also professor (on lien), Department of English, Jadavpur University
.
An alumnus of Presidency College, Kolkata
and Jadavpur University
, he obtained his D. Phil. from Oxford University. He joined the Department in 1985 and was Head from 2005 to 2007. He has also been the Deputy Co-ordinator of the Centre for Advanced Study programme, and part of the Departmental research projects under the ASIHSS programme. He was also Joint Director, School of Cultural Texts and Records.
He teaches Renaissance European literature, early modern drama, Shakespeare, Latin
classics, textual criticism
, history of the book
and literary theory. His other interests include Augustan literature
, 19th century Bengali
culture, Modernity
and Film Studies
. He is internationally acknowledged as an authority on Renaissance
drama (especially Thomas Middleton
) and the history of the book
.
Professor Chakravorty has also taught at the Ramakrishna Mission Residential College
, the University of Calcutta
and Universiti Malaya, and delivered the Strode Renaissance Lectures at the University of Alabama
in 2003. He has been delegate at the Tenth SAARC Writers’ Conference and the Edinburgh Book Festival. He has also spoken at the World Congress of the International Shakespeare Association.
Bengali language
Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...
: স্বপন কুমার চক্রবর্তী) (born 29 July 1954) is Director General of the National Library of India
National Library of India
The National Library of India at Belvedere, Calcutta is the second largest library in India after the Anna Centenary Library in Chennai and India's library of public record....
, Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
. He is also professor (on lien), Department of English, Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University , is a premier educational and research institution in India.It is located in Kolkata, West Bengal and comprises two campuses - the main campus at Jadavpur and the new campus at Salt Lake...
.
An alumnus of Presidency College, Kolkata
Presidency College, Kolkata
Presidency University, Kolkata, formerly Hindu College and Presidency College, is a unitary, state aided university, located in Kolkata, West Bengal. and one of the premier institutes of learning of liberal arts and sciences in India. In 2002 it was ranked number one by the weekly news magazine...
and Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University , is a premier educational and research institution in India.It is located in Kolkata, West Bengal and comprises two campuses - the main campus at Jadavpur and the new campus at Salt Lake...
, he obtained his D. Phil. from Oxford University. He joined the Department in 1985 and was Head from 2005 to 2007. He has also been the Deputy Co-ordinator of the Centre for Advanced Study programme, and part of the Departmental research projects under the ASIHSS programme. He was also Joint Director, School of Cultural Texts and Records.
He teaches Renaissance European literature, early modern drama, Shakespeare, Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
classics, textual criticism
Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts...
, history of the book
History of the book
The history of books follows a suite of technological innovations for books. These improved the quality of text conservation, the access to information, portability, and the cost of production...
and literary theory. His other interests include Augustan literature
Augustan literature
Augustan literature is a style of English literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II on the 1740s with the deaths of Pope and Swift...
, 19th century Bengali
Bengali people
The Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal in South Asia. They speak Bengali , which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. In their native language, they are referred to as বাঙালী...
culture, Modernity
Modernity
Modernity typically refers to a post-traditional, post-medieval historical period, one marked by the move from feudalism toward capitalism, industrialization, secularization, rationalization, the nation-state and its constituent institutions and forms of surveillance...
and Film Studies
Film studies
Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies...
. He is internationally acknowledged as an authority on Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
drama (especially Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period. He was one of the few Renaissance dramatists to achieve equal success in...
) and the history of the book
History of the book
The history of books follows a suite of technological innovations for books. These improved the quality of text conservation, the access to information, portability, and the cost of production...
.
Professor Chakravorty has also taught at the Ramakrishna Mission Residential College
Ramakrishna Mission Residential College
Ramakrishna Mission Residential College is an autonomous college located in Narendrapur, Kolkata. The college was established in 1960 and affiliated to the University of Calcutta. It is run by the Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Narendrapur...
, the University of Calcutta
University of Calcutta
The University of Calcutta is a public university located in the city of Kolkata , India, founded on 24 January 1857...
and Universiti Malaya, and delivered the Strode Renaissance Lectures at the University of Alabama
University of Alabama
The University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States....
in 2003. He has been delegate at the Tenth SAARC Writers’ Conference and the Edinburgh Book Festival. He has also spoken at the World Congress of the International Shakespeare Association.
Books
- Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas MiddletonThomas MiddletonThomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period. He was one of the few Renaissance dramatists to achieve equal success in...
(OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
: Clarendon Press, 1996). This is a much cited work and regarded as a major contribution to the field of Middleton studies.
- contributing editor of The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007) and Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007). (General Editors awarded the distinguished Scholarly Edition Prize by the Modern Language AssociationModern Language AssociationThe Modern Language Association of America is the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature...
, USA)
- (edited with Abhijit Gupta) Print Areas: Book History in India (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004) and Movable Type: Book History in India II (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2008).
- (edited with Abhijit Gupta) Moveable Type: Book History in India (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2009)
- (with Tani Barlow and Suzana Milevska) Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakGayatri Chakravorty SpivakGayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary critic, theorist and a University Professor at Columbia University. She is best known for the essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?", considered a founding text of postcolonialism, and for her translation of Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology. She...
(Kolkata: Seagull, 2006)
- Shakespeare (Kolkata: Papyrus, 1999)
- Bangalir ingreji sahityacharcha (Kolkata: Anustup, 2004)
- editor of Mudraner sanskriti o bangla boi (Kolkata: Ababhas, 2007). Awarded the Naransingha Dass Prize by the University of DelhiUniversity of DelhiThe University of Delhi is a central university situated in Delhi, India and is funded by Government of India. Established in 1922, it offers courses at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. Vice-President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari is the Chancellor of the university...
, 2010.
Articles
External links
- http://www.jadavpur.edu/academics/arts_eng_academic_swapan.htm
- http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/BritishLiterature/Renaissance/?view=usa&ci=9780198182665
- http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2008/speaker_detail/1725/Professor
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