Supriya Chaudhuri


Supriya Chaudhuri 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 |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 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, Chennai|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