Ananya Dutta Gupta
Dr. Ananya Dutta Gupta, Professor of English, has taught at Visva-Bharati for nearly twenty-three years. She holds an MPhil in Renaissance literature from Oxford and a PhD from Jadavpur University on the Renaissance English representation of sieges. Her areas of research interest also extend to Rabindranath Tagore, the literature of the city, literature and the visual arts, and research methodology.
Ananya Dutta Gupta's revised Orient Blackswan Annotated edition of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book I (2012), continues to be in worldwide circulation and she has several other scholarly articles, essays and book reviews published in national and international journals to her credit. She was Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Cambridge, in 2015. Besides over thirty invited lectures within the state in the past five years, she has also presented several academic papers in the past two years, notably at the World Shakespeare Congress, Singapore, 2021, the Oxford University ERC-TIDE Conference, 2021, and the Asian Shakespeare Association, 2022 and 2024.
Ananya Dutta Gupta has also published book reviews and translations of essays, poetry and short stories. Her books include a translation of Elisabeth Günther, The India I Breathe, transl. Ananya Dutta Gupta (Kolkata: Rritobāk, 2021) and a debut collection of poems, For Tomorrow the Birds Might Still Sing (Santiniketan: Birutjatio, 2021). Her many publications over the past two years include articles on Tagore’s Achalāyatan in the Visva-Bharati Centenary Commemorative volume, Tagore Centre UK, women academics in India in the Journal of International Women’s Studies, and on archipelagic thinking in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island in Critical Imprints (Journal of the Department of English, Loreto College), a review of Kunal Basu’s Filmi Stories in Contemporary Literary Review India, and a literary essay titled “Fiercely Tender: The Simple Complex World of Michael Ondaatje” in Bangalore Review. She has co-edited with Patricia Frick, Professor, Otterbein University, Ohio, USA, a collection of scholarly essays on British and Indian Women Travel Writers from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. The book, funded and published by Otterbein University, is currently in press.
ananya_duttagupta@yahoo.co.uk
ORCID ID: 0009-0007-5743-1900
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Yr. 13, Issue 26, 2025_Autumn Edition (Sep.-Oct.)
