Swapan Chakravorty (1954-) Is the First Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Presidency University, Kolkata

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Swapan Chakravorty (1954-) is the first Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Presidency University, Kolkata. He has been Professor of English, Jadavpur University (1985-2015), Director General, National Library, Kolkata (2010-2013), and Secretary and Curator of the Victoria Memorial Hall (2012-2013). Educated at Presidency College, Jadavpur University and Oxford University, Professor Chakravorty writes in English and Bengali. He has held visiting assignments at the Universiti Malaya, the University of Alabama and the University of London. His books include Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (with Suzana Milevska and Tani E. Barlow) (London: Seagull, 2007), Bangalir ingreji sahityacharcha (Kolkata: Anustup, 2006), and Shakespeare (Kolkata: Papyrus, 1999). His edited book Mudraner sanskriti o bangla boi (Kolkata: Ababhas, 2007) won the Narasingh Das Award of Delhi University in 2009. He was one of the contributory editors of Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (gen. ed.), The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2008), and Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (gen. ed.), Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2008). The former was awarded the Distinguished Scholarly Edition Prize by the Modern Language Association of America in 2009 and Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Prize by Rice University in 2011. He has edited three volumes on book history in India with Abhijit Gupta, Print Areas (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004), Moveable Type (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2008), and Founts of Knowledge (Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2015). His recent publications are (edited) Rabindranath: silparup, patthrup, grantharup (Kolkata: Ababhas, 2011), Praphullachandra Ray: A Checklist of Major Holdings in English and Bengali (with Edited Texts in Sanskrit) (Kolkata: National Library, 2011), and Nameless Recognition: Rabindranath Tagore and Other Indian Literatures (Kolkata: National Library, 2011). Chakravorty has been member of Calcutta University Senate, Presidency Mentor Group, Managing Committee of Visva Bharati Granthan Vibhaga, Working Group of the National Mission on Libraries, Peer Review Group of the National Digital Library of the MHRD, Governing Board of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta and Member of Eminence, Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad. .

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