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Paromita Chakravarti

Jadavpur University, India

Dr. Paromita Chakravarti is Professor, Department of English, Jadavpur University and has been Director, School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University. She completed her doctoral studies on early modern discourses of madness from the University of Oxford. She teaches Renaissance drama, women's writing, queer studies and film studies. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Oxford, Liverpool, Amsterdam, Birmingham, Sapienza, Hyderabad, Delhi. She has published widely on Shakespeare as well as on women’s studies. She has led national and international projects on gender representation in school textbooks, sexuality education, women's higher education, women and HIV and AIDS, single and homeless women.

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