Faculty of Arts - English

Academic contribution in last five years

Professor Supriya Chaudhuri took over as DSA Co-ordinator on the 26th of March 2001. She is also Convenor of the Academic Committee of the School of Languages, Faculty of Arts. She served as Head of the Department from 1995 to1997 and was a member of the UGC National Panel for English and Western Languages, 1995-1997. She directed the DSA International Seminar on Words and Worlds in the Renaissance in February 2001, and the DSA National Seminar on Literature and Philosophy in March 2000, presenting papers at both. She attended the World Shakespeare Congress at Valencia in April 2001 to lead a seminar. In June-July 1999 she visited Britain as a British Council Academic Visitor, jointly sponsored by the Charles Wallace Trust, and participated in the 25th Annual Seminar on Contemporary Literature held at the University of Cambridge. In 1997 she addressed the Asian Women Writers' Conference at Kuala Lumpur as a plenary speaker. With Professor Sajni Mukherji, she edited Literature and Gender (Orient Longman, 2002), contributing an essay to the volume, and is currently editing Literature and Philosophy (forthcoming from Papyrus). She has contributed to a book on Mind And Consciousness forthcoming from the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. She has contributed essays to the Departmental book projects Interrelations (Macmillan) and Renaissance Texts and Contexts (Macmillan), and a section to English for All. She was one of the translators for the volume of Selected Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore for the Oxford Tagore Translations Series, and is engaged in translating Tagore's poetry and his novel Jogajog for the same series. She has translated modern Bengali poetry for Departmental projects. She contributed a critical 'Afterword' to the Departmental translation of Sharatchandra Chatterjee's The Final Question (Shesh Prashna) published by Ravi Dayal/Permanent Black, New Delhi, in March 2001. Professor Chaudhuri also organized the International Karate Workshop and Demonstration held on campus in January 2001 by the Jadavpur University Karate Club and the Ranajoy Karlekar Memorial Centre. She is a member of the International Karate Association, Japan, the Society for Renaissance Studies, London, the Shakespeare Society of India, and on the Advisory Boards of the Electronic Journal of Indian Culture and Society and Visva Bharati Quarterly.

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