Sukanta Chaudhuri

Sukanta Chaudhuri is Professor Emeritus at ​the Department of English, Jadavpur University. He ​has been Director of the School of Cultural Texts and Records at Jadavpur​​ and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He has many publications on the European Renaissance and textual studies, and ​was ​Project Director for ​Bichitra, the complete Tagore variorum website​. He ​  edited the collection Calcutta: The Living City, and writes and campaigns on education and civic issues. He has prepared the Third Arden edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2017) and A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance (The Manchester Spenser) (2018).

Attending Session

January 24, 2020 ● 12:40 pm
King Lear in 2020 - Vinay Pathak, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Anant Mahapatra, and Preti Taneja discuss Shakespeare’s tragic old king in the new millennium. In conversation with Debnita Chakravarti

January 25, 2020 ● 1 pm
Tagore's Universe: The World, the Earth and the Cosmos - Sukanta Chaudhuri and Somak Raychaudhury on Tagore’s engagement with science, the arts and his times