Supriya Chaudhuri

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Supriya Chaudhuri (Bengali: সুপ্রিয়া চৌধুরী), is a well respected Bengali Indian scholar of English literature. She is a professor at Kolkata's Jadavpur University. She was born in Vienna where her father was in the foreign service and grew up in Europe and India.

Her scholarship ranges widely over many fields, notably literary theory, modernism, the Renaissance.

She is also a black belt in Kyokushinkai karate.

She has edited the following volumes:

Writing Over: Medieval to Renaissance (edited along with Sukanta Chaudhuri), Literature and Gender: Essays for Jasodhara Bagchi (edited along with Sajni Mukherji) (Orient Longman, 2002), Literature and Philosophy: Essays in Connexion (Papyrus, 2006), Petrarch and the Renaissance (edited along with Sukanta Chaudhuri)

She is a major contributor to the Oxford Tagore Tranlsations and has translated Relationships (Jogajog).