SWAPAN KUMAR

Swapan Kumar Chakravorty  (born 29 July 1954) is Director General of the National Library of India, Kolkata. He is also professor (on lien), Department of English, Jadavpur University.
An alumnus of Presidency College, Kolkata and Jadavpur University, he obtained his D. Phil. from Oxford University. He joined the Department in 1985 and was Head from 2005 to 2007. He has also been the Deputy Co-ordinator of the Centre for Advanced Study programme, and part of the Departmental research projects under the ASIHSS programme. He was also Joint Director, School of Cultural Texts and Records.

He teaches Renaissance European literature, early modern drama, Shakespeare, Latin classics, textual criticism, history of the book and literary theory. His other interests include Augustan literature, 19th century Bengali culture, Modernity and Film Studies. He is internationally acknowledged as an authority on Renaissance drama (especially Thomas Middleton) and the history of the book.
Professor Chakravorty has also taught at the Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, the University of Calcutta and Universiti Malaya, and delivered the Strode Renaissance Lectures at the University of Alabama in 2003. He has been delegate at the Tenth SAARC Writers’ Conference and the Edinburgh Book Festival. He has also spoken at the World Congress of the International Shakespeare Association.

Books

• Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). This is a much cited work and regarded as a major contribution to the field of Middleton studies.

• 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). (General Editors awarded the distinguished Scholarly Edition Prize by the Modern Language Association, USA)

• (edited with Abhijit Gupta) Print Areas: Book History in India (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004) and Movable Type: Book History in India II (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2008).

• (edited with Abhijit Gupta) Moveable Type: Book History in India (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2009)

• (with Tani Barlow and Suzana Milevska) Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Kolkata: Seagull, 2006)

• Shakespeare (Kolkata: Papyrus, 1999)

• Bangalir ingreji sahityacharcha (Kolkata: Anustup, 2004)

• editor of Mudraner sanskriti o bangla boi (Kolkata: Ababhas, 2007). Awarded the Naransingha Dass Prize by the University of Delhi, 2010. 

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