Faculty
Prof. Rosinka Chaudhuri
Director and Professor in Cultural Studies
D. Phil. (Oxford University, UK)
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
R–1, Baishnabghata Patuli Township, Kolkata – 700 094, India
Tel : +91 (0)33 2462 7252 / 5794 / 5795 / 2436 8313 / 7794 / 95 / 97
Room Extn. : 218 Fax : +91 (0)33 2462 6183
Email : rosinka@cssscal.org
Rosinka Chaudhuri (D.Phil. Oxon) is Director and Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC). She was inaugural Mellon Professor of the Global South at Oxford University, 2017-18, and Schaffner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago in 2026. She has also held visiting positions at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL; St Hugh’s College, Oxford; King’s College, London; Delhi University, Cambridge University and Columbia University.
Her books include Gentlemen Poets in Colonial Bengal: Emergent Nationalism and the Orientalist Project (Seagull: 2002), Freedom and Beef-Steaks: Colonial Calcutta Culture (Orient Blackswan: 2012; new edition forthcoming 2026) and The Literary Thing: History, Poetry and the Making of a Modern Cultural Sphere (Oxford University Press: 2013, Peter Lang: 2014). A book titled India’s First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire has been published by Penguin Random House India in February 2025.
She has edited: Derozio, Poet of India: A Definitive Edition (Oxford University Press, 2008), The Indian Postcolonial (with Elleke Boehmer, Routledge UK, 2010), A History of Indian Poetry in English (Cambridge University Press, 2016), An Acre of Green Grass and Other English Writings of Buddhadeva Bose (Oxford University Press, 2018), and a series titled Social Science Across Disciplines (co-edited with Partha Chatterjee, Oxford University Press, 2019). She was also invited to edit, annotate, and introduce George Orwell’s Burmese Days for Oxford World’s Classics as part of their Orwell series (2021).
Many journal articles, reviews and book chapters have been published nationally and internationally, while her translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s letters, titled Letters from a Young Poet (1887-94) (Penguin Modern Classics, 2014) received an Honorable Mention in the category A.K. Ramanujan Prize for Translation (S. Asia) at the Association for Asian Studies Book Prizes 2016. She serves on the board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and is an Advisory Board Member of Academy in Exile (Technische Universität Dortmund).