Teachers' Profile
Teachers' Profile
PROFESSOR CHINMOY GUHA
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| Title | : | Professor and Head, Department of English; Chair, Undergraduate Board of English Studies; Chair, M.Phil. Studies, University of Calcutta. |
| Specialization | : | 20th century literature and culture, especially the Modernist and early post-Modernist period; interdisciplinary studies |
| : | chinmoy.guha@gmail.com | |
| Phone | : | (91) (33) 2241 0071 (Extn. 337) |
| Office | : | Asutosh Building, 2nd floor; 1st floor (Head’s office) |
| Office Hours | : | After classes, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thurs; or by appointment |
Bio
The French Government has recently conferred on him the Knighthood of Academic Palms, one of the oldest civilian honours in the world. According to Le Clézio, 2008 Nobel laureate in literature, “His honour is so satisfying because it rewards the work of someone who has built bridges between cultures.”
B.A. from St. Xavier’s College; M.A. from Calcutta University; Ph.D. from Jadavpur University. A former Director of Embassy of France in New Delhi, he has lectured at Oxford, Manchester, Warwick, Paris, Lyon, Avignon and Vézelay. His books include: Where the Dreams Cross: T S Eliot and French Poetry (2000); The Tower and the Sea: Romain Rolland-Kalidas Nag Correspondence 1922-1938 (1996); Remembering Sartre (Co-edited, 2007); Time Space Text: Mapping Cultural Paradigms (Co-edited, 2008); La Rochefoucauld’s Maxims (1990); Robin Wood’s The Apu Trilogy; Flaubert’s Dictionary of Stupidity (2000); Chilekothar Unmadini, a Collection of Essays on Culture (2007); Garho Sankher Khonje (2011); Between the Centre and the Absence (2003); Anya Jalbatash, Anya Dheu: A Collection of Twentienth Century French Poetry (2010); Victor Hugo: A Biography (2003), Aina Bhangte Bhangte: A Book of Conversations with R K Dasgupta, Tapan Raychaudhuri, Badal Sircar, Mrinal Sen, Sankha Ghosh, Dipendu Chakrabarty, Gayatri Chakrabarty Spivak (2011). Currently working on a UGC-UPE Project on Impact of France on Bengal; editing the Complete Works of Father Detienne and a book on Romain Rolland..
His essays were published in: Kritisches Lexikon der fremdsprachigen Gegenwarts-literatur: Indische Literatur der Gegenwart, Edition text+ kritik in Richard Boorberg Verlag GmbH & Co KG, Germany; 2007: En quête d’un nouvel espace: Romain Rolland et l’Inde in Cahiers de la Société Internationale des Littératures de l’Ere Coloniale, France; “La Guirlande des beaux Accords”, Romain Rolland: Une Oeuvre de Paix, Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, June 2010. A co-author of 2009: La „Weltbibliothek“ et la Maison des amis, un projet de Romain Rolland, Etudes Rollandiennes, No 21 , Paris, 2009. Awards: Lila Roy Award for Translation, Paschim Banga Bangla Academy, 2008; Chevalier des Palmes académiques, Government of France, 2010. Derozeo Bicentenary Award, 2010.
The French Government has recently conferred on him the Knighthood of Academic Palms, one of the oldest civilian honours in the world. According to Le Clézio, 2008 Nobel laureate in literature, “His honour is so satisfying because it rewards the work of someone who has built bridges between cultures.”
B.A. from St. Xavier’s College; M.A. from Calcutta University; Ph.D. from Jadavpur University. A former Director of Embassy of France in New Delhi, he has lectured at Oxford, Manchester, Warwick, Paris, Lyon, Avignon and Vézelay. His books include: Where the Dreams Cross: T S Eliot and French Poetry (2000); The Tower and the Sea: Romain Rolland-Kalidas Nag Correspondence 1922-1938 (1996); Remembering Sartre (Co-edited, 2007); Time Space Text: Mapping Cultural Paradigms (Co-edited, 2008); La Rochefoucauld’s Maxims (1990); Robin Wood’s The Apu Trilogy; Flaubert’s Dictionary of Stupidity (2000); Chilekothar Unmadini, a Collection of Essays on Culture (2007); Garho Sankher Khonje (2011); Between the Centre and the Absence (2003); Anya Jalbatash, Anya Dheu: A Collection of Twentienth Century French Poetry (2010); Victor Hugo: A Biography (2003), Aina Bhangte Bhangte: A Book of Conversations with R K Dasgupta, Tapan Raychaudhuri, Badal Sircar, Mrinal Sen, Sankha Ghosh, Dipendu Chakrabarty, Gayatri Chakrabarty Spivak (2011). Currently working on a UGC-UPE Project on Impact of France on Bengal; editing the Complete Works of Father Detienne and a book on Romain Rolland..
His essays were published in: Kritisches Lexikon der fremdsprachigen Gegenwarts-literatur: Indische Literatur der Gegenwart, Edition text+ kritik in Richard Boorberg Verlag GmbH & Co KG, Germany; 2007: En quête d’un nouvel espace: Romain Rolland et l’Inde in Cahiers de la Société Internationale des Littératures de l’Ere Coloniale, France; “La Guirlande des beaux Accords”, Romain Rolland: Une Oeuvre de Paix, Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, June 2010. A co-author of 2009: La „Weltbibliothek“ et la Maison des amis, un projet de Romain Rolland, Etudes Rollandiennes, No 21 , Paris, 2009. Awards: Lila Roy Award for Translation, Paschim Banga Bangla Academy, 2008; Chevalier des Palmes académiques, Government of France, 2010. Derozeo Bicentenary Award, 2010.
