
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.
Ph. D. in English Literature, Jadavpur University
Research Interests
Speculative Fiction, Translation Studies, Mythological Fiction, Hindustani Classical Music
Outreach Activity
Teaching at sister institution Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences
Datta Chaudhuri, S. ‘Jekyll-Holmes & Ripper-Hyde: The Body As a Site of Multiplicity’. The Confidential Clerk (2017).
Datta Chaudhuri, S. ‘The Body as a Performing Space’. Connecting Texts: Literature, Theatre & Cinema (2016).
Sinha, Subrata and S. Datta Chaudhuri. ‘Hindustani Shastriya Sangeet-er Recording, Samgraha O Archiving’ (2015).
Das Gupta, Amlan and S. Datta Chaudhuri. Co-translation of hypertext edition of Chalachittachanchari by Sukumar Ray (2015). https://ksoh.kiit.ac.in//busybee.jdvu.ac.in/ccc_xml_p_s_main_oxygen.xml
Datta Chaudhuri, S. ‘The Body as Identity in William Gibson’s Neuromancer’. Jadavpur University Essays & Studies XXVI (2012).

