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1 Faculty Details proforma for DU Web-site Title Prof. First Name Shirshendu Last Name Chakrabarti Photograph Designation Professor of English Address C-25/29-31, Probyn Road, Delhi University, Delhi Phone No Office Residence Mobile Web-Page Educational Qualifications Degree Institution Year D. Phil. (English) Trinity College, Oxford University 1981 M.Phil. / M.Tech. M.A. (English) St Stephen s College, Delhi University 1974 B.A.(English Hons) Presidency College, Calcutta University 1971 Any other qualification Career Profile Lecturer in English, St Stephen s College, Delhi University 16 July November 1981 INLAKS scholar, Trinity College, Oxford University (Degree awarded: D.Phil. in English) Reader in English, Jadavpur University 09 November June 1991 Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow (Postdoctoral studies), Trinity College, Oxford University Visiting Fellow (eight weeks), Centre of Linguistics and English, JNU 1989 Reader in English, University of Delhi South Campus 01 July March 1997 Visiting Fellow (two weeks), Jadavpur University 1994 Professor of English, Delhi University 12 March Administrative Assignments Served as University Representative on the Governing Bodies of Dyal Singh College and Kamala Nehru College Areas of Interest / Specialization English literature from the Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century; European intellectual history, literature and the visual arts; Modern English poetry; Modern Bengali literature; Translation. Page 1

2 Subjects Taught Renaissance drama, poetry and philosophy; eighteenth-century literature, criticism and intellectual texts; romantic poetry; Stendhal; modern English poetry and fiction; literature and the visual arts; Chaucer; Plato and Aristotle; Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Research Guidance List against each head (If applicable) 1. Supervision of awarded Doctoral Thesis: Namita Sethi on Eighteenth-century British women writers 2. Supervision of awarded Doctoral Thesis: Sharmila Purkayastha on the impact of the Naxalbari movement on Bangla literature 1. Supervision of Doctoral Thesis (under progress): Neelima Luthra on the Politics of the English translations of Meerabai 2. Supervision of Doctoral Thesis (under progress): Saumyagarima Jaipuriar on the movement in the visual arts known as the Patna Kalam 1. Supervision of awarded M.Phil dissertations Vasantha on the Influence of Greek Philosophy on Renaissance Philosophy 2. Supervision of M.Phil dissertations, under progress Publications Profile List against each head(if applicable) (as Illustrated with examples) 1. Books/Monographs 2003 and Two volumes of verse in Bangla (Kolkata: Ananda Publishers) Word, Image, Text: studies in literary and visual culture. Ed. Shormishtha Panja, Shirshendu Chakrabarti and Christel R. Devadawson. Delhi: Orient BlackSwan Congreve, William. The Way of the World. Ed. Shirshendu Chakrabarti. Delhi: Orient Longman Towards an Aesthetics and Ethics of the Future: Rabindranath Tagore (forthcoming from IIAS, Shimla) 2. Research papers published in Refereed/Peer Reviewed Journals Against the Pride of Reason: Looking at Swift through Montaigne. In Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature. 22: a) Research papers published in Academic Journals other than Refereed/Peer Reviewed Journals Art and the prison of the unconscious. In Summerhill Review Montaigne s Essais: the indeterminate mode in renaissance literature. Yearly Review. 5:29-50 b) Research papers published in Refereed/Peer Reviewed Conferences c) Research papers Published in Conferences/Seminar other than Refereed/Peer Reviewed Conferences 4. Other publications (Edited works, Book reviews, Festschrift volumes, etc.) Introduction to Fever/Mahakaler Rather Ghoda by Samaresh Basu, translated by Arunava Sinha Page 2

3 (Delhi:Random House India) Introduction to Durgeshnandini by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, translated by Arunava Sinha (Delhi: Random House India) Introduction to Three Women by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Arunava Sinha (Delhi: Random House India) Between Retrospect and Prospect: the Landscape Painting of Claude Lorrain. In Word, Image, Text (op.cit.) The Shadow of Eliot across Bengali Poetry of the 1930s. In The International Reception of T.S. Eliot. Ed. Elisabeth Daumer and Shyamal Bagchee. London & New York: Continuum Reception Studies Beyond the Intricate Web of Words. In Towards Freedom: Critical Essays on Tagore s Ghare Baire. Delhi: Orient Longman Translations from Tagore s poetry. In Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Poems. Ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri. Delhi: OUP Shadows of Futurity: the Uses of Abstractness in Shelley s Poetry. In Mastering Western Texts. Ed. Sambudha Sen. Delhi: Permanent Black In Search of an Elusive Freedom: History, Class and Gender in Tagore s Ghore-Baire, in Many Indias, Many Literatures: New Critical Essays, ed. Shormishtha Panja. Delhi: Worldview Publications Master and servant: social mobility and the ironic exchange of roles in Swift s Directions to Servants. In Tradition in Transition: women writers, marginal texts, and the eighteenth-century canon. Ed. Alvaro Ribeiro & James G. Basker. Oxford: The Clarendon Press George Herbert: poetic form and the re-formation of man. In Renaissance Essays for Kitty Scoular Dutta. Ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri. Calcutta: OUP Conference Organization/ Presentations (in the last three years) 1. Organization of a Conference International Seminar on John Milton, Delhi University 2. Participation as Paper Presenter The Renaissance Self; Divided against itself? At the National Seminar at Hans Raj College on Constructions of the self: theories, contexts, practices Christian over Pagan: Milton s Aesthetic dilemma? At the International Seminar on Milton, Delhi University Tagore and the Search for an Alternative Modernity. At the International Seminar on Tagore, Neruda, Cesaire at the IIAS, Shimla Irresolution and Agency: the Case of Yudhishthira. At the Mahabharata school/conference, IIAS, Shimla. To be published in a Routledge anthology Towards an Ethics and Aesthetics of the Future: Rabindranath Tagore ( ), IIAS, Shimla In Search of an Indian Literature. At the National Seminar on Literature in the Indian Languages, IIAS, Shimla Rabindranath Tagore and the aesthetics and ethics of evanescence. IIAS, Shimla Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration) Awards and Distinctions Page 3

4 Tagore Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Visiting Fellow, Jadavpur University, Calcutta (1994) Visiting Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (1989) Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at Oxford ( ) Inlaks Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford ( ) Association With Professional Bodies 1. Editing Editor, Summerhill (IIAS Review), Vol XIX, No Reviewing 3. Advisory 4. Committees and Boards 5. Memberships 6. Office Bearer Other Activities Page 4

5 Publications BOOK : Forthcoming: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Future: Rabindranath Tagore (To be published by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS Forthcoming: Irresolution and Agency: The Case of Yudishthira in Exploring Agency in the Mahābhārata: Ethical, Political and Dhārmic. ( to be jointly published by Routledge India and the IIAS) TRANSLATION Talks, Conferences and Lectures