Room 207, Knox Hall, 606 West 122nd Street between Broadway and Claremont
South Asian Studies and Global Cultural Studies
Moderated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Nabaneeta Dev Sen is one of the most beloved, versatile, and prolific writers in Bengali literature. Equally expressive in poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, she has over eighty books in print in Bengali, including collections of poems, novels, short stories, travelogues, plays, humor, narrative non- fiction, literary criticism, and children’s literature. Educated in Kolkata and the U.S. (at Harvard, Berkeley, Indiana and Jadavpur Universities and Presidency College), Dev Sen is an equally acclaimed international scholar with a long tenure as Professor of Comparative Literature. She was the founder-secretary of the Indian National Comparative Literature Association, and delivered the Radhakrishnan Memorial lecture series at Oxford University in 1997. Her many literary honors include the Padmashri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Bangla Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, and Lifetime Achievement Award of the Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Guild. Dr. Dev Sen is Founder and President of the West Bengal Women Writers’ Association, Soi.
