Supriya Chaudhuri

Supriya Chaudhuri
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Born	1953 (age 72–73)
Citizenship	Indian
Education	BA, Presidency College, University of Calcutta BA, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford MA, University of Oxford D Phil, University of Oxford
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Occupations	Professor of English (Emerita), Jadavpur University
Years active	1975-present

Supriya Chaudhuri (Bengali: সুপ্রিয়া চৌধুরী; born 1953) is an Indian scholar of English literature. She is Professor Emerita at Kolkata's Jadavpur University.

Biography

Chaudhuri was born in Delhi, India, and grew up in India. She was educated at South Point High School, Presidency College in Calcutta, and the University of Oxford, 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 Oxford 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 Jadavpur University after having taught at Presidency College and Calcutta University. 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, 18th-century British literature, modernism, and the Renaissance.

Selected works

As editor

• (with Sukanta Chaudhuri) .
• (with Sajni Mukherji) .
• .

As translator

• Rabindranath Tagore, Relationships (Jogajog), translated by Supriya Chaudhuri, The Oxford Tagore Translation

External links

• Academia.edu profile
• Moral Economies of Wellbeing
• Supriya Chaudhuri on Google Scholar