Swapan Kumar Chakravorty

Swapan Kumar Chakravorty (Bengali: স্বপন কুমার চক্রবর্তী) (born 29 July 1954) was Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Presidency University, Kolkata. He has served as Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Director General of the National Library of India, Kolkata, and Secretary and Curator of Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata. Chakravorty is currently Chairperson, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor on Library Matters, Ashoka University, and Distinguished Visiting Faculty, S. P. Jain School of Global Management.

Swapan Chakravorty.

Alumnus of Calcutta Boys' School, Presidency College, Kolkata and Jadavpur University, Chakravorty 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.[1]

Professor Chakravorty has also taught at the Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, 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, Sombhu Mitra Memorial Lecture of Paschimbanga Natya Akademi, Kolkata, Buddhadeva Bose Memorial Lecture of Paschimbanga Kabita Akademi, Buddhadeva Bose Memorial Lecture of CSSSC, 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, Bhaskar Chakraborti Memorial Lecture in Kolkata, and the first Kabindranath Phukan Memorial Lecture at Gauhati University, Guwahati. Other special lectures delivered in Kolkata include Subodh Chandra Sengupta Memorial Lecture, Kalyan Maitra Memorial Lecture and the first Raghab Bandyopadhyay Memorial Lecture.[2]