Suman Chakraborty

Suman Chakraborty is an India-based literary scholar and academic writer.

Suman was born in Kolkata and was educated at B. E. College Model School and Asutosh College of Calcutta University, where he studied English for his first degree. He also studied at the University of Glasgow for his degree of Master of Letters (M.Litt.) in Modernities. His research interests focus on American poetry, especially its postmodern experimental genres, and pre-modern literature in general. Suman is an editor of eNotes and the executive editor of ROMAN Books.

Career & Publications

Suman's publications include his journal article ‘Meaning, Unmeaning and the Poetics of LANGUAG=E’ which has been published in The Indian Review of World Literature in English (ISSN : 0974-097X). He edited Creative Writing: A Practical Approach (ISBN: 978-81-906788-0-3) and C.U. English Honours Questions: An Essential Companion (ISBN: 978-81-906788-4-1). His book Elizabethans and the Pre-Romantics: Critical Readings on Selected Poems (ISBN: 978-81-906788-2-7) is being published by a leading publisher of India.

His conference publications include ‘Detecting the “Unreal City”: Sherlock Holmes’s London Adventures’ (at the Literary 2006, University of Greenwich, London) and ‘THE KNOWLEDGE: In & Out’ (at Theorising and Performing Knowledge: Teaching, Learning and Research, University of Glasgow in 2005). He was also one of the main speakers at the acclaimed lecture series organised at Charukala Bhavan, Kolkata in December 2006.

He is presently working for his forthcoming books on Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. He is also starting a longer research on the use of epiphany in Joyce’s Dubliners.
 
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