Sudeshna Datta Chaudhuri

Assistant Professor II

Dr. S. D. Chaudhuri received her doctoral degree in English literature from Jadavpur University in 2013. She qualified for UGC-NET in 2007. From 2008 to 2017, Dr. Chaudhuri has worked in various institutions including Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata; Institute for Civil Service Aspirants (ICSA), Kolkata; and the School of Cultural Texts & Records (SCTR), Jadavpur University, Kolkata. In SCTR, Dr. Chaudhuri has worked on India-UK Academic & Educational Network Programme under UGC-UPE-I scheme, and Music Digitisation Project in the SCTR Archive of Hindustani Classical Music under UGC-UPE-II. She has also taught in the Digital Humanities & Cultural Informatics course run by the SCTR. She was a National Scholarship Awardee in her graduation days, and a gold and a silver medalist after her postgraduation. Dr. Chaudhuri has won the Publishing Next Industry Awards Runner-up Award in ‘Printed Book of the Year (Indian Languages) 2020’ for _Irasindhur Jadukar_, her translation of American author Ursula Le Guin’s fantasy novel _A Wizard of Earthsea_. She is trained in Hindustani Classical Music (vocal) and holds a Sangeet Prabhakar from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahabad. She is proficient in English, Bangla, and Hindi, and has been a regular book reviewer for The Telegraph, Kolkata. Dr. Chaudhuri considers resource-creation through research, translation, and digitization, a crucial part of current academia. Her areas of interest are: speculative fiction, mythology, translation studies, digital humanities, Hindustani classical music.

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