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Ipshita Chanda

The English and Foreign Languages University, India

Ipshita Chanda has taught Comparative Literature since 1993, at Jadavpur University, Kolkata and since 2017 at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. She received a PhD in 1995 from Jadavpur University for her work on Anglophone African Theatre. At Jadavpur University she was coordinator of the Centre of Advanced Study in Comparative Literature (2010-13) and founded the Centre for Studies in African Literatures and Cultures in 2006. In 2012, she co-coordinated the Achebe Foundation sponsored seminars held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Things Fall Apart, and was sponsored by the Achebe Foundation to speak at the seminar celebrating the 50th anniversary of Arrow of God at Dhaka University, Bangladesh; and invited to speak at the Achebe Colloquium (Brown University, 2014). She held the ICCR Chair of Indian Culture at Georgetown University, Washington DC in 2013-14, an e-residency in the Fung Global Fellows Program at Princeton University in 2021, and has taught at the School of Human Sciences, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in 2024. Among her published work are three volumes of Palaver : Proceedings of the Annual Forum for Scholars of African Studies ( 2006, 2008 and 2010, Jadavpur University, Kolkata). She translates between Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and English

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