Faculty of Arts - English

Academic contribution in last five years

Professor Swapan Chakravorty

Professor Swapan K. Chakravorty MA (JU) D Phil (Oxon.) joined the Department in 1985 and was Head from 2005 to 2007. At present, he is Deputy Co-ordinator of the CAS programme, and leads the Departmental research project under the ASIHSS programme. He teaches Renaissance European literature, early modern drama, Shakespeare, textual criticism, book history and literary theory. Professor Chakravorty is author of Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), and is 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). He has co-edited Print Areas: Book History in India (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004), and Movable Type: Book History in India II ((Delhi: Permanent Black, 2008). His works in Bengali include the book Bangalir ingreji sahityacharcha (Kolkata: Anustup, 2006) and the edited volume Mudraner sanskriti o bangla boi (Kolkata: Ababhas, 2007). Professor Chakravorty has also taught at the University of Calcutta and Universiti Malaya, and delivered the Strode Renaissance Lectures at the University of Alabama in 2003. He is also Joint Director, School of Cultural Texts and Records.

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