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-110007 Phone No Office 27666757 Residence 27662622 Mobile +919873092622 Email shirshenduc@hotmail.com Web-Page www.du.ac.in 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 1974-08 November 1981 INLAKS scholar, Trinity College, Oxford University 1977-80 (Degree awarded: D.Phil. in English) Reader in English, Jadavpur University 09 November 1981-30June 1991 Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow (Postdoctoral studies), Trinity College, Oxford University 1986-87 Visiting Fellow (eight weeks), Centre of Linguistics and English, JNU 1989 Reader in English, University of Delhi South Campus 01 July 1991-12 March 1997 Visiting Fellow (two weeks), Jadavpur University 1994 Professor of English, Delhi University 12 March 1997---- 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. www.du.ac.in Page 1
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 2008. Two volumes of verse in Bangla (Kolkata: Ananda Publishers) 2009. Word, Image, Text: studies in literary and visual culture. Ed. Shormishtha Panja, Shirshendu Chakrabarti and Christel R. Devadawson. Delhi: Orient BlackSwan 2007. Congreve, William. The Way of the World. Ed. Shirshendu Chakrabarti. Delhi: Orient Longman Towards an Aesthetics and Ethics of the Future: Rabindranath Tagore 1930-41 (forthcoming from IIAS, Shimla) 2. Research papers published in Refereed/Peer Reviewed Journals 1984. Against the Pride of Reason: Looking at Swift through Montaigne. In Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature. 22:119-33 3. a) Research papers published in Academic Journals other than Refereed/Peer Reviewed Journals 1998. Art and the prison of the unconscious. In Summerhill Review 1991. 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.) 2011. Introduction to Fever/Mahakaler Rather Ghoda by Samaresh Basu, translated by Arunava Sinha www.du.ac.in Page 2
(Delhi:Random House India) 2010. Introduction to Durgeshnandini by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, translated by Arunava Sinha (Delhi: Random House India) 2010. Introduction to Three Women by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Arunava Sinha (Delhi: Random House India) 2009. Between Retrospect and Prospect: the Landscape Painting of Claude Lorrain. In Word, Image, Text (op.cit.) 2007. 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 2007. Beyond the Intricate Web of Words. In Towards Freedom: Critical Essays on Tagore s Ghare Baire. Delhi: Orient Longman 2004. Translations from Tagore s poetry. In Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Poems. Ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri. Delhi: OUP 2003. Shadows of Futurity: the Uses of Abstractness in Shelley s Poetry. In Mastering Western Texts. Ed. Sambudha Sen. Delhi: Permanent Black 1999. 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. 1996. 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 1995. 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 2010. International Seminar on John Milton, Delhi University 2. Participation as Paper Presenter 2010. The Renaissance Self; Divided against itself? At the National Seminar at Hans Raj College on Constructions of the self: theories, contexts, practices 2010. Christian over Pagan: Milton s Aesthetic dilemma? At the International Seminar on Milton, Delhi University 2011. Tagore and the Search for an Alternative Modernity. At the International Seminar on Tagore, Neruda, Cesaire at the IIAS, Shimla 2012. Irresolution and Agency: the Case of Yudhishthira. At the Mahabharata school/conference, IIAS, Shimla. To be published in a Routledge anthology. 2012. Towards an Ethics and Aesthetics of the Future: Rabindranath Tagore (1930-41), IIAS, Shimla 2013. In Search of an Indian Literature. At the National Seminar on Literature in the Indian Languages, IIAS, Shimla 2013. Rabindranath Tagore and the aesthetics and ethics of evanescence. IIAS, Shimla Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration) Awards and Distinctions www.du.ac.in Page 3
Tagore Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2012-2013 Visiting Fellow, Jadavpur University, Calcutta (1994) Visiting Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (1989) Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at Oxford (1986-87) Inlaks Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford (1977-80) Association With Professional Bodies 1. Editing Editor, Summerhill (IIAS Review), Vol XIX, No. 1 2. Reviewing 3. Advisory 4. Committees and Boards 5. Memberships 6. Office Bearer Other Activities www.du.ac.in Page 4
Publications BOOK : Forthcoming: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Future: Rabindranath Tagore 1930-41 (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