Faculty of Arts - English

Academic contribution in last five years

Dr Amlan Das Gupta

Amlan Das Gupta was Visiting Fellow at Delhi University in 2005. He has recently published an edition of Measure for Measure (Orient Longman, New Delhi, 2004); a translation of Premendra Mitra’s Ghana-da stories (Penguin India, 2004) and a chapter in Bharati Ray (ed.) Women of India: Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods (PHISPC/Sage, New Delhi, 2005). He has published an edition of Aristotle's Poetics (New Delhi: Longmans/Pearson, 2006) and an edited volume titled Music and Modernity: Indian Music in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Kolkata: Thema, 2007). He directed a conference entitled "Arts and Aesthetics in India, 1800-2000", held to mark the Golden Jubilee of the University, and is at present engaged in editing the proceedings of the conference for publication by the Book Review Trust, New Delhi. He co-coordinated a conference titles Food: Representation, Ideology and Politics in 2006.

He continues his voluntary labour in teaching Latin and Classical Greek in the Department. His research and teaching interests include classical European literature, the history of Christianity and 16th and 17th century English literature. He also researches, writes and lectures on issues relating to the history and preservation of North Indian classical music, and is currently building a major digital archive of classical music at the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University.

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