Supriya Chaudhuri (; born 1953) is an Indian scholar of English literature. She is Professor Emerita at

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Biography

Chaudhuri was born in

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, India, and grew up in India. She was educated at South Point High School, Presidency College in Calcutta, and the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

, where she was a State Scholar from 1973 to 1975, taking a First in English. After serving a few years at Presidency as Assistant Professor of English, she returned to

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on an Inlaks Scholarship (1978–81) for doctoral research in Renaissance Studies. She was awarded a D.Phil. in 1981. She joined the faculty of

after having taught at Presidency College and

Calcutta University The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University (), is a Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Kolkata, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate c ...

. She was in charge of the UGC funded research programme of the university's English Department. Her scholarship ranges over many fields, notably

literary theory Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. Culler 1997, p.1 Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, m ...

, 18th-century British literature,

modernism Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

, and the

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Selected works

As editor

* (with

Sukanta Chaudhuri Sukanta Chaudhuri (born 1950) is an Indian people, Indian literary scholar, now Professor Emeritus at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He was educated at Presidency College, Kolkata and the University of Oxford. He taught at Presidency College fr ...

) . * (with Sajni Mukherji) . * . * * *

As contributor

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As translator

*Rabindranath Tagore, ''Relationships (Jogajog)'', translated by Supriya Chaudhuri, The Oxford Tagore TranslationReview of ''Relationships (Jogajog)'' *

References

External links

Academia.edu profile

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