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Books Society and politics in the plays of Thomas Middleton Education Jadavpur University, University of Oxford | ||
Swapan Kumar Chakravorty (Bengali: স্বপন কুমার চক্রবর্তী) (born 29 July, 1954) is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Presidency University, Kolkata. He has served as Professor of English, Jadavpur University, and Director General of the National Library of India, Kolkata, and Secretary and Curator of Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata.
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An alumnus of Calcutta Boys' School, Presidency College, Kolkata and Jadavpur University, he obtained his D. Phil. from Oxford University. He joined the English Department at Jadavpur in 1985 and was Head from 2005 to 2007. He has also been Joint Director, School of Cultural Texts and Records.
Professor Chakravorty has also taught at the Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, the University of Calcutta and Universiti Malaya. His visiting assignments and lectures include those at the University of Alabama, Institute of English Studies at London University, and King's College, London. He has delivered the Hudson Strode Renaissance Lectures at the University of Alabama, Brajendranath Bandyopadhyay Memorial Lecture, Sunitikumar Chattopadhyay Memorial Lecture and Jitendranath Chakrabarti Memorial Lecture at Bangla Akademi, Kolkata, Shakti Chattopadhyay Memorial Lecture, Sukhalata Rao Memorial Lecture and Ranajay Karlekar Lecture at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, the Foundation Day Orations at Bangiya Sahitya Parishat and the Centre for Archaeological Research and Training, Eastern India, Kolkata, the first Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Lecture, the first Satyendra Prasanna Mukherjee Memorial Lecture, and Bhaskar Chakraborti Memorial Lecture in Kolkata, and the first Kabindranath Phukan Memorial Lecture at Gauhati University, Guwahati.