Visiting Scholar 2003 Basureb Chakraborti enjoys a wintry walk across campus with UCA Poet-in-Residence Terry Wright.
Basudeb Chakraborti
Visiting Humanities Scholar 2003
Visiting Scholar 2003 Basureb Chakraborti enjoys a wintry walk across campus with UCA Poet-in-Residence Terry Wright.
Dr. Basudeb Chakraborti, professor of English at the University of Kalyani in West Bengal, India, is a linguist whose interests include the Victorian novel as well as the works of India’s Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore. After receiving one M.A. degree from the University of Calcutta, and a second from the University of Houston, he took the M.Phil degree at the University of Nagpur and earned his doctorate from the University of Kalyani. He is the author of two books on the fiction of Thomas Hardy, and of articles on cross-cultural issues.
Dr. Chakraborti is a specialist as well on the works of the Bengali poet, playwright, novelist, composer, painter, and educational theorist, Rabindranath Tagore. In India he regularly teaches works by Tagore, and most recently directed a production of Tagore’s play, Sacrifice. He is completing a book on linguistic issues surrounding Tagore’s theater.
While on campus Dr. Chakraborti conducted a workshop for English department faculty on the poetry of Tagore, met with the student English Club to analyze a Tagore short story, discussed production aspects of Tagore’s play Red Oleanders with theater majors, and lectured to Writing and Rhetoric classes on the problems of translation. On Feb. 5, he delivered a public lecture titled "Literature, Politics, and the Making of Modern India: Rabindranath Tagore and the Swadeshi Movement," which capped this year’s Indian Culture Festival.