| Date
of Birth |
16th November
1965
|
| Qualification
|
| Year |
Degree |
College/University |
1987
|
B.A in English |
Jadavpur University Kolkata |
1990
|
M.A. in English |
Jadavpur
University Kolkata |
| Research
Projects, Papers and Books |
|
The Stream Within, Short Stories by Contemporary Bengali Women.
Published by Stree, Calcutta, 1999 translated and
edited by Swati Ganguly and Sarmistha DuttaGupta
( A selection of thirteen short stories
written and published between 1947-1997 and includes writers from
Bengal and Bangladesh. Broadly speaking
the stories may be read as feminist fiction)
Pherar Samay, Published
by N.E Publishers, Kolkata, 2002 ( A collection of Bengali popular
fiction written and published between
1993 and 2000 in the literary Supplements of Jugantar , Pratidin
and in the magazine Sananda)
Papers/ Essays/ Translations of Stories:
'2002 A Shakespearean
Odyssey: Postcolonial Theory and Pedagogy from the Metropolis to
the Margins' in For All Time? Ed Paul
Skrebels, Wakefield Press, South Australia. 2002.
'Women and Shakespeare
; 'I am not that I play' in Re-presenting Shakespeare : Text, Performance
and Analysis, Kolkata Macmillan India,
2002
'The Condition
of Widowhood' Translation of Baidhvya by Anindita Devi, in Shadow
Lives, Writings on Widowhood, ed Uma
Chakravarti and Preeti Gill, Kali for Women, 2001
'Performance and
Pedagogy: Shakespeare in Santiniketan' in Colonial and Postcolonial
Shakespeares, ed Amitava Roy et al
Avantgarde Press,2001
'The Rice Thief'
(Chal Chor) a short story by Salil Chaudhury, Amritabazar Patrika,
January 1993
'The Beggars' (
Bharatbarsha) a short story by Ramapada Chaudhury, The Statesman,
Sunday Literary Supplement , September
1989
Forthcoming
'The Modern Age
and the Modern Woman' (Ekal O Ekaler Meyera) an essay by Saratkumari
Chaudhurani in a volume on women's
writing to be published by Stree along with Women's Studies, Jadavpur
University
Translation of
Tagore's short stories Samasyapuran ( Problem Solved ) & Sanskar
(Prejudice) in an anthology of Tagore's
short stories to be published by Rupa.
|
| Teaching
Experience |
9 years in DEOMEL, Visva-Bharati
9 months in Loreto
College |
| Awards
and other Academic Distinctions |
| Awarded
the Charles Wallace Fellowship for Translation Studies in1996 |
| Other
Co-curricular Interests |
|
Painting and visual arts, theatre, creative writing
|