AMLAN DAS GUPTA
Professor of English Director, School of Cultural Texts and Records Jadavpur University ********** Flat 4A, Ananda, 116 Southern Avenue, Kolkata 700029* Telephone: 033-24665270 Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032 * Telephone 033-24146681 Mobile +919433701676 ********** [email protected] [email protected] **********
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: B.A. (English Hons.), Calcutta University, 1977 M.A. (English), Jadavpur University, 1979 M.Phil. (English), Oxford University, 1982 Ph.D., Jadavpur University (1992)
EXPERIENCE PROFILE: Lecturer in English, Scottish Church College, Kolkata (1982-1986) Lecturer in English, Calcutta University (1986-1995) Reader in English, Jadavpur University (1995-2003) Professor of English, Jadavpur University (2003- present) Director, School of Cultural Texts and Records, 2010- present
Current Research Interests:
1. Classical European Thought 2. History of Christianity 3. Renaissance English Literature 4.History of Indian Music
Languages known:
Bengali English Sanskrit Classical Greek Latin Hindi
List of Publications:
I have mentioned only book-length studies in all fields: a more detailed list of work done in archiving and music studies is appended thereafter.
Books:
(published)
1. Jishu (in Bengali) Papyrus, Kolkata, 1997 (second edition, 2002)
2. Khansahab Alladiya Khan: My Life Translated with a critical introduction, with Urmila Bhirdikar, Thema , Kolkata, 2000; expanded second edition, 2012
3. Renaissance Texts and Contexts, edited, Macmillan, Kolkata, 2003
4. Measure for Measure, edited, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2004
5. The Poetics of Aristotle, Penguin Study Editions, Pearson Books, Delhi, 2007
6. Music and Modernity: North Indian Classical Music in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction edited Thema, Kolkata, 2008
7. Mosquito and Other Stories: Short Stories by Premendra Mitra, translated, Penguin India 2003, reissued as Penguin Modern Classic, 2009.
8. The First Book of Virgil’s Aeneid Translated into the Bengalee Languageby Henry Sargent (1810); Facsimile of text with a triglot rendition including a new English translation from the Latin and notes, by Abhijit Gupta, Amlan Das Gupta and LavKanoi. (Jadavpur UP, Kolkata, 2013)
Articles in music archiving and music history (last 5 years):
1. "Representation and Repetition: Early Recorded Music in India", in Yearly Review, Dept of English, Delhi University, Special Issue, 2004-5, Volume 1, 2006
2. “Words for Music Perhaps” in Music and Modernity: North Indian Classical Music in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction edited Thema Kolkata, 2008
3. “Musical Contests: Reflections on Musical Values in Popular Film”, Journal of the Moving Image, Dept of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata; vol 6, December 2007, print and online at http://www.jmionline.org/jmi6_4.html
4. “Repertoire and Performance: Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur”, SangeetNatak, Volume xliii, no. 2, 2009
5. “Mansur on Record”, Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur Centenary Celebrations Catalogue, ed. S Kalidas, New Delhi, 2010
6. “The Early Khayal” Poetics and Politics of Sufism and Bhakti, ed. Kavita Panjabi, Orient Blackswan, 2011
10 career best publications (refereed articles in all fields)
1. "Samson's Shame: Modes of Self Consciousness in Samson Agonistes", Essays and Studies, Jadavpur University, vol VI, 1987
2. ''Determined Things: Power and Comic Structure in Measure for Measure'', in Writing Over: Medieval to Renaissance, edited by Supriya Chaudhuri and Sukanta Chaudhuri, Allied Publishers, Kolkata, 1996
3. ''The Home, The Nation, The World" in Sharing a Commonwealth: (Essays presented at ACLALS Triennial Conference, 1998), ACLALS, Kuala Lumpur, 2001
4. “Jonathan Edwards on Freedom and Foreknowledge", Essays and Studies, Jadavpur University, 2003
5. "Women and Music: The Case of North India", constituting Chapter 18 of Women of India, ed. Bharati Ray, Project on the History of Indian Philosophy, Science and Culture, Government of India, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2005
6. "Representation and Repetition: Early Recorded Music in India", Yearly Review, Dept. of English, Delhi University, Special Issue, Volume 13, 2006
7. “Tragedy and the Good Life”, Literature and Philosophy: Essaying Connections, (ed) Supriya Chaudhuri, DSA Programme in English and Papyrus, Kolkata, 2006
8. “Musical Contests: Reflections on Musical Values in Popular Film”, Journal of the Moving Image, Dept of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata; vol 6, December 2007,
9. “The Miltonic Dissimile: Language and Style in Paradise Lost, Book 4”, in Renaissance Themes, Essays Presented to Arun Kumar Das Gupta, Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Anthem Press, New Delhi, 2009.
10. “Renaissance and Renovation”, In Renaissance Reborn: In Search of a Historical Paradigm, edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Chronicle Books, New Delhi, 2010
Recent Papers (archiving and music history) at Conferences and Symposia (2010-2013)
1. “The Musical Anecdote” Culture Studies International Conference, Hans Raj College, New Delhi, January 2010
2. “Theatre Songs” Rang Mahotsav, National School of Drama, January, 2010
3. “The History of North Indian Classical Music and Culture Studies” Faculty Lecture, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Central University of Gujarat, August 2010
4. “Anecdotes and Musical History”, Faculty Lecture, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Central University of Gujarat, August 2010
5. “Plates and Bangles” Commodities and Culture Network Workshop,,King‟s College London, June 2010
6. “Amir Khan and the Modernity of the Khayal” Special Lecture, India International Centre, New Delhi, July 2010
7. “The Archive and Musical Practice”, Introductory lecture at Workshop on Indian Classical Music, Centre for Studies in Society and Culture, Bangalore, November 2010
8. “Music and Affect” Commodities and Culture Network Workshop, National Library, Kolkata, January, 2011
9. “The Raga Abroad: : North Indian Classical Music and “World” Music” in the 1960s”, Conference on The Global Sixties, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, March 2011
10. “Classical Music in Bengal”, “Many Rabindranaths: Across Space and Time”, organised by the Department of History and Rabindranath Studies Centre, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, from 28-30 March 2011
11. “The Digital Object of Desire” with Subrata Sinha IASA International Conference, New Delhi, 2012.
12. “North Indian Classical Music in the Long 1940s” , Three-day National Workshop, The Nation Unbound: India in the 1940s, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 10-12 May 2012.
13. Presentation, Archives Workshop on 26/27 June 2012 at Saptak Archives Ahmedabad.
14. Presentation, Consultation on Indian Languages in Higher Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. 27-28 July, 2012.
15. Presentation, Deliberations About the Digital Hub for Indian Languages, Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, 1st October, 2012
16. Notes from the Dustheap: Digital Humanities Seminar, Presidency University, 2012
17. Digital Archives, Digital Humanities, Seminar, Dept of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, 2013
18. Theory and Practice: UstadAlladiya Khan, IGNCA, New Delhi, 2013
19. Amir Khusrau, Jashne Khusrau, Aga Khan Memorial Trust, New Delhi, 2013
20. Curriculizing the Digital Humanities in India, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, August, 2013
21. The Unfashionable Side: The Digital Archive and the Question of Surrogacy, Presidency University, 2013
22. Talk on The Digital Archive at anniversary celebrations of Malayalam University, Tirur, held in Trivandrum, November, 2013
23. Presentation, Workshop on Digital Humanities, organized by Trinity College Dublin at Microsoft Research, Bangalore, November, 2013
Online publications: 1. In Heidegger's Hut, 2011 2. Augustine on Memory: A Note on Confessions 10.8-37. 2012 3. North Indian Classical Music in the „Long‟ 1940s, 2012 4. The Digital Object of Desire (with SubrataSinha), 2013 all in http://humanitiesunderground.wordpress.com
5. Review Article on Bruce Gordon and Matthew McLean, eds., Shaping the Bible in the Reformation , Spenser Review 43.2.35 (Fall 2013). Hosted by Cambridge University, Washington University and University of South Carolina. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/volume-43/issue-432/reviews/shaping- the-bible-in-the-reformation-books-scholars-and-their-readers-in-the-sixteenth-century-by- amlan-das-gupta
Projects in relevant field
Title Funding Agency Period Archive of North Indian the UGC under the “University April 2004-March 2007 Classical Music, School of with Potential for Excellence” Cultural Texts and Records, Scheme Jadavpur University Digital Archive of North Endangered Archives September 2007- Indian Classical Music, School Programme. August 2009 of Cultural Texts and Records, British Library, UK Jadavpur University
Digital music archiving: digital Endangered Archives September 2009- archive of North Indian Programme. August 2011 classical music phase II British Library, UK (special collections
Documentation of University Grants Commission, August 2012- Cultural Texts India (part of the "Cultural Resources and Social Sciences Programme" under UPE-II)
Digitization of Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Mumbai October 2012- South Asian September 2015 Cultural Resources (in collaboration with British Library, London)
Digitization of Paper Records Maulana Abul Kalam Azad September 2013-May of Maulana Azad Museum, Institute of Asian Studies, 2104 Kolkata (under Ministry of Culture)
Digitization of Paper and Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata November 2013- Photographic Records of (under Ministry of Culture) January 2015 Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata
New Courses Designed:
Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics, UGC Innovative Programmes Scheme, from July, 2013
Memberships of National Committees
Member, Technology and Options Committee, PrasarBharati Member, Expert Group on Archiving, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India Member, Expert Group on National Audiovisual Archives, IGNCA, New Delhi Member, UGC Committee on NET Review