Dr. Sanjukta Dasgupta, Professor and Former Head, Deptartment of English and currently Dean, Faculty of Arts, Calcutta University, teaches English, American and Indian English literature. She is a poet, critic and translator, and her articles, poems, short stories and translations have been published in journals of distinction in India and abroad.  Her published books are The Novels of Huxley and Hemingway: A Study in Two Planes of Reality, Responses: Selected Essays, Snapshots (poetry), Dilemma (poetry), First Language (poetry), More Light (poetry), Her Stories (translations), Manimahesh (translation), The Indian Family in Transition (co-edited). She is the Managing Editor of FAMILIES: A Journal of Representations.

Her awards and grants include the British Council Charles Wallace Scholar grant, Fulbright postdoctoral research fellowship, Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award, Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Suny, Oswego, New York, Australia India Council Fellowship, Visiting fellow at the Centre for Women’s Research and Gender studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Associate Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Visiting Fellow at the Women Studies and Development Centre, University of Delhi.

She is Coordinator of the UGC DRS II (SAP) project, a member of the advisory committee of the Women’s Studies Research Centre, Calcutta University, member of the West Bengal Central School Service Commission, member of the Calcutta University Senate (third term) and co-opted member of the Board of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies(ENGLISH) of Assam University, Silchar. Prof Dasgupta is Assistant Editor of the Journal of Women’s Studies, Calcutta University.

She visited Nepal and Bangladesh as a member of the SAARC Writers Delegation. Prof. Dasgupta was invited by the Commonwealth Foundation, UK to serve as co-judge and thereafter as Chairperson for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia region). She visited Melbourne and Malta to serve on the pan- Commonwealth jury panel. She is now an e-member of the advisory committee of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, UK. In June 2008, Prof. Dasgupta was invited by the Swedish Writers Union to participate in the first WALTIC at Stockholm--a writers and literary translators’ conference.  In 2008, she presented papers on gender issues at the Huxley conference, Los Angeles and at the Commonwealth Foundation Diversity Matters conference, Kuala Lumpur. In 2009 she was invited to give talks on gender and literature at Oxford University, UK and Charles University, Prague.