Amlan Das Gupta

[http://www.jadavpur.edu/academics/arts_eng_academic_amlan.htm Amlan Das Gupta] is Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is a noted scholar of Classical and English Renaissance literature.

He did his B.A.(Hons.) from Presidency College, Calcutta and went on to pursue the M.A. at Jadavpur University. He received an M. Phil. from Oxford University and came back to Jadavpur University to complete his Ph. D. After teaching at Scottish Church College, Presidency College and Calcutta University he joined the faculty of Jadavpur University.

He learnt Latin and Greek from Father Robert Pilette, SJ. He gives lessons in these languages to interested students outside the university curriculum.

His publications include "Jishu" (1997); "My Life: Khansaheb Alladiya Khan" (translated with critical introduction, with Urmila Bhirdikar, Thema, 2000). [ [http://www.themabooks.com/culture1.html Thema : Culture Studies/ Performance/Media/Film 2 ] ] ; "Mosquito and Other Stories: Ghana-da's Tall Tales" (a translation of the Ghonada stories of Premendra Mitra) (Penguin, 2004) [http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?tid=45] ; editions of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" (Macmillan, 2004) [ [http://www.orientlongman.com/display.asp?categoryID=21&isbn=978-81-250-2648-8 ::.. Orient Longman Pvt. Ltd. ..:: ] ] and Aristotle's "Poetics" (Longman, 2006) [http://www.akhilbooks.com/frmsingleproductDet.aspx?id=14841] . He is the editor of "Renaissance Texts and Contexts" (Macmillan, 2003) and "Music and Modernity: North Indian Classical Music in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (Thema, 2007). He is also building an archive of North Indian classical music at the [http://www.jadavpur.edu/academics/school_of_cultural_text&records.htm School of Cultural Texts and Records] at Jadavpur University.

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