• PhD in Musicology, Stanford University
• PhD in English, University of Toronto
• MA in English, Jadavpur University
• BA in English, Jadavpur University

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Presidency University (Kolkata), India

Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of English, University of British Columbia

Adaptation Studies, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, European Literature, 19th- and 20th-Century Indian Literature, Translation Studies, Historical Musicology & Ethnomusicology, Ecocriticism, History of Science, Bakhtin, Detective Fiction

1. Monograph

Shakespeare in the World: Cross-Cultural Adaptation in Europe and Colonial India 1850–1900. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. Online edition published 2020. Paperback edition published 2022. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003099789.

    Reviewed in:

1. Shakespeare Survey 75 (2022): 375­-383, by Russell Jackson;       
2. Deś 89.23 (2 Oct 2022), 77-79, by Subhabrata Banerjee;
3. Shakespeare Quarterly 73.1-2 (2022): 169-71, by Amrita Sen;
4. Shakespeare 19.4 (2023), 615-17, by Shormishtha Panja;
5. The Book Review (December 2023), by Poonam Trivedi;
6. Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 16.1 (2024), 157-158, by Sharon Emmerichs

2. Journal Articles

1. “Linear, Cyclic, or Lineo-Cyclical? A Transmodern Perspective on the Histories of Measuring and Ordering Time in Asian Calendrical Systems.” Asian Review of World Histories 13, no. 2 (2025): 254–288. https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10092
2. “Bankimchandra Chatterjee’s Vande Mātaram and the Patriotic Song Tradition in India.” South Asian History and Culture 14, no. 4 (2023): 547–564. Online edition published October 4, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2022.2120242
3. “From Quarter-tones to the Big Bang: The Music of Naresh Sohal.” Groniek 233 (2023): 412–435. Abbreviated version published in WiseMusic Classical. https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/1474/NareshSohal/ Interview: https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/features/2022/10/naresh-sohal-interview/
4. “Brünnhilde, the Aryan Sati: Wagner and German Orientalism.” The Wagner Journal 4, no. 3 (2010): 27–42. French translation: https://richard-wagner-web-museum.com/oeuvre/ring-des-nibelungen-anneau-nibelung-tetralogie-wwv86/brunnhilde-sati-aryenne-wagner-orientalisme-allemand/
5. “Maqbool by Vishal Bhardwaj.” In Asian Shakespeares on Screen: Two Films in Perspective, ed. Alexander C. Y. Huang. Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 4, no. 2 (2009). Published May 9, 2010. https://borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/article/view/168/333
6. “Women in Post-Independence Bengal: Mahanagar by Narendranath Mitra and Satyajit Ray.” In Face(t)s of Woman: Gender in the Indian Cultural Context. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific 22 (2009). Published October 27, 2009. http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue22/ssen.htm
7. “The Art Song and Tagore: Settings by Western Composers.” University of Toronto Quarterly 77, no. 4 (2008): 1110–1132. https://doi.org/10.3138/utq.77.4.1110

3. Book Chapters

1. “The Location of Theory: Bhāṣa Literatures in Indian and North American Postcolonialism.” In Language Ideologies and the “Vernacular” in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia, edited by Nishat Zaidi and Hans Harder, 75–89. London and New York: Routledge, 2024.
2. “Listening through the Walls: Music-Making in the Historic Houses of Rabindranath Tagore in Jorasanko and Santiniketan.” In Sound Heritage: Making Music Matter in Historic Houses, edited by Jeanice Brooks and Wiebke Thormählen, 59–72. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429281327 [Co-written with Pramantha Mohun Tagore.]
3. “Colonial Education and Literary Self-Fashioning in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: The Career and Legacy of Michael Madhusudan Datta.” In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Literature, vol. 4, 1771–1919, edited by Frieda Ekotto, Abigail E. Celis, and Kenneth Seigneurie, 1965–1976. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118635193.ctwl0163
4. “Orientalism and Beyond: Tagore, Foulds, and Cross-Cultural Exchanges between Indian and Western Musicians.” In Studies on a Global History of Music: A Balzan Musicology Project, edited by Reinhard Strohm, 274–307. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315163970
5. “Rabindranath Tagore and Musical Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Bengal.” In Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature: Musical Modernism, edited by Katherine O’Callaghan, 126–139. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315231716
6. “Sangīt, Sṛijanīśakti, evaṅ Soundarya” (Music, Creativity, and Beauty). Translated by Tapan Roy. In Rabindranath-Einstein: Ek Amīmaṅsita Saṅlāp (Rabindranath-Einstein: An Inconclusive Conversation), edited by Sanjib Mukhopadhyay, 275–279. Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad, 2014. https://samsadbooks.in/products/rabindranath-einstein-ek-amimangsito-sanglap
7. “Shakespeare Reception in France: The Case of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet.” In Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism, edited by Joseph Ortiz, 183–204. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315243351
8. “The Art Song and Tagore: Settings by Western Composers.” In Rabindranath Tagore: Reclaiming a Cultural Icon, edited by Kathleen O’Connell and Joseph T. O’Connell, 148–173. Kolkata: Visva-Bharati University Press, 2009. (Reprint of article published in University of Toronto Quarterly).
9. “Wagner in The Waste Land.” In Interrelations, edited by Indrani Haldar, 52–59. Kolkata: Macmillan India, 2003.

4. Book Reviews

1. Review of Theorizing Adaptation, by Kamilla Elliott. In Bengali. Deś 89, no. 9, Boi Sankhyā [Book Issue] (March 2, 2022): 157–159.
2. Review of From Creole to Standard: Shakespeare, Language, and Literature in a Postcolonial Context, by Roshni Mooneeram. Comparative Literature Studies 49, no. 4 (2012): 646–650. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/494333.
3. Review of Macbeth Multiplied: Negotiating Historical and Medial Difference between Shakespeare and Verdi, by Christoph Clausen. Comparative Literature Studies 44, no. 4 (2007): 521–523. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/article/224799.

5. Translations

1. Translations of selected writings in Bengali on theatre by Girish Chandra Ghosh, Binodini Dasi, and Sisir Kumar Bhaduri. In A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theatre Theory, 1850 to the Present, edited by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker, 42–48, 79–89, 149–154. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019.
2. Selections from (1) reprinted in The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism, edited by Catherine Burroughs and J. Ellen Gainor, 195–201. London and New York: Routledge, 2023.

6. Conference Proceedings

1. “‘Musics’ in the Plural? Some Semiotic Considerations.” Anekaant: A Journal of Polysemic Thought 14 (Autumn 2021–22): 47–52. Published 2024.
2. “World War I and the Reception of Jazz in Europe.” In Essays on American Music and Literature: Multiple Perspectives, edited by Indrani Haldar and Parantap Chakraborty, 227–236. Kolkata: Jadavpur University Society for American Studies (JUSAS), 2019.
3. “From Literary Studies to Lived Experience: English Studies in India.” In English Language and Literature in the Era of Globalization, edited by Sr Candy D’Cunha, 23–24. New Delhi: Authors Press, 2018.
4. “Challenging Stereotypes across Race and Religion: Ira Aldridge and Giuseppe Verdi as Interpreters of Shakespeare’s Venetian Plays.” JUSAS Weblog (Kolkata, India), January 15, 2014. http://jusasonline.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/.
5. “Negro Spirituals.” JUSAS Newsletter (Kolkata, India, 1999): 18–26.

7. Newspaper and Magazine Articles

1. “A True Meeting of Musical Minds: Zubin Mehta and the Symphony Orchestra of India Present Music by Richard Strauss.” ON Stage 14, no. 1 (2024): 10–13. Republished online in Serenade Magazine. https://serenademagazine.com/a-true-meeting-of-musical-minds/
2. “Concertos for Indian Instruments: Creative, Performance-Related and Interpretive Challenges.” ON Stage 13, no. 2 (2023): 6–10. https://serenademagazine.com/concertos-for-indian-instruments-creative-performance-related-and-interpretative-challenges/
3. “Jewish Women Composers: A Note on the Ariela Concert at the NCPA.” ON Stage 12, no. 11 (2023): 20–23.
4. “The Life and Career of Zubin Mehta.” ON Stage 12, no. 4 (2022): 8–11. https://serenademagazine.com/the-life-and-career-of-zubin-mehta/
5. “Conflicts and Resolutions: Musical Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet.” ON Stage 12, no. 1 (2022): 18–22. https://serenademagazine.com/conflicts-and-resolutions-musical-adaptations-of-romeo-and-juliet/
6. “Intimate Conversations: What Makes Chamber Music So Special.” ON Stage 11, no. 9 (2022): 18–21. https://serenademagazine.com/intimate-conversations/
7. “Beethoven o Viśwa-Sangīt” [Beethoven and World Music]. Deś 88, no. 6 (January 17, 2021): 32–36.
8. “A Folk Fiddler in String Quartet.” Indian Express, December 17, 2020, 11. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/ludwig-van-beethoven-musical-cultures-western-art-music-7107754/
9. “Albert Roussel, Padmāvatī, evaṅ Bhāratiya Sangīt” [Albert Roussel, Padmâvatî, and Indian Music]. Translated by Shubhabrata Banerjee. Jalarka 28, no. 1–3 (2019): 59–63.

8. Liner Notes for CDs

1. Sohal, Naresh. The Wanderer and Asht Prahar. BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, with Jane Manning (soprano) and David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Heritage Records, 2024. Catalogue no. HTGCD 135 – 5060332663033.
2. ———. Lila. Violin Concerto. Performed by Xu Wei (violin), Sarah Leonard (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martyn Brabbins and Sir Andrew Davis. Heritage Records, 2024. Catalogue no. HTGCD 133 – 5060332663064.
3. ———. Complete Piano Music & Piano Trio. Performed by Konstantinos Destounis et al. Toccata Classics, 2023. Catalogue no. TOCC0689.

Selective List

1. Suddhaseel Sen, Two Tagore Songs for bansuri, sitar, and chamber orchestra by Rakesh Chaurasia (flute), Kushal Das (sitar), and the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Axel Kober, Mercatorhalle (Duisburg), May 2024 (https://duisburger-philharmoniker.de/Konzerte/blick-zurueck-aus-indien-pk10-2023-2024/)
2. Rabindranath Tagore, “Bāje koruno shure,” arranged for recorder, dulzian, and strings, by Suddhaseel Sen, performed by the Lautten Compagney, conducted by Wolfgang Katschner, Humboldt Forum (Berlin), June 2023 (https://www.lauttencompagney.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PH_Raga-und-Passacaglia_Humboldt-Forum_sw_dt.pdf)
3. Suddhaseel Sen, Four Tagore Songs for mezzo-soprano, flute, and string quartet, by Rohini Roychowdhury et al, conducted by Suddhaseel Sen, Kolkata (Indian Council for Cultural Relations), December 2022 [as part of Interwoven symposium organised by the University of Chicago] (https://interwoven.omeka.net/public-events)

Selective list (last four years)

1. “Competing Notions of Justice for Women: Three Case Studies from Contemporary Hindi Cinema.” International Conference (Paris/online), Société d’Activités et de Recherches sur les mondes Indiens (SARI), 2025.
2. “Music Contra Musicology: A View from Contemporary India.” Invited Talk, Graduate Institute of Musicology, National Taiwan University (Taiwan), 2024.
3. “From Poetics to Politics: Semiotics, Cultural Capital, and the Study of Cross-Cultural Encounters.” Invited Talk, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 2024.
4. Panel Creator and Presider, “Non-Anglophone European and Modern Indian Drama: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Adaptations.” Modern Language Association (MLA) (USA/online), 2024.
5. “Realism and the Rise of Ecological Fiction in Modern Non-anglophone Indian Literatures.” International Conference (Oulu), World Congress of Environmental History, 2024.
6. “Ibsen, Ray, and the Indian Ecodrama.” Panel, “Ecocritical Literature in Indian Vernaculars.” International Conference (USA/online), MLA, 2024.
7. “New Convergences: Raymond Williams, Cultural Studies, and Adaptation Theory.” Keynote Talk, International Conference, How to be an Alien in British Cultural Studies (Romania/online), University of Bucharest/New Europe College, 2023.
8. Presenter and Discussant, Meeting the Author Series [on Shakespeare monograph]. Société d’Activités et de Recherches sur les mondes Indiens (SARI) (Paris/online), 2023.
9. Pre-concert panel discussant and post-concert moderator for concert series, “Musical Belongings – I: Lautten Compagney Berlin meets Indian Raga Music.” Humboldt Forum (Berlin), 2023.
10. “‘Musics’ in the Plural? Some Semiotic Considerations.” Invited Lecture, National Seminar, Philosophical Semantics, IIT Bombay (Mumbai), 2023.
11. “Rabindranath Tagore and the Challenges of Bi-Musical Analysis.” Interwoven Bengal Symposium (Kolkata), University of Chicago, 2022.
12. Invited Moderator for Roundtable, “‘Global,’ ‘Music,’ ‘History’: A Cocktail of Problematic Labels.” International Conference (Hong Kong/online), Global Musicology–Global Music History, 2022.
13. “The Impact of the Linguistic Turn on Scientific Discourse in Post-colonial India.” International Conference (Paris/online), SARI, 2022.
14. “Theorizing Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Music: Empirical, Semiotic, and Discursive Approaches.” International Conference (Hong Kong/online), Global Musicology–Global Music History, 2022.
15. “The Text and the World: Adaptation Studies and its Uses.” International Lecture Series Adaptation Without Borders (Germany/online), Technische Universität Braunschweig, 2021.
16. “Adaptation Theory and the Study of Cross-Cultural Exchanges.” International Conference (Chennai/online), Adaptation Studies, Vellore Institute of Technology, 2021.
17. “Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory: An Indian Perspective.” International Conference (Singapore/online), Non-English Language Shakespeares, World Shakespeare Congress, 2021.
18. “Panegyrics in Context: Hymns to Queen Victoria and Colonial Hegemony.” Online Colloquium (New Delhi/online), Vernacular Victoria: The Queen in South Asian Languages, Ashoka University, 2021.
19. “Ernest Bloch’s Macbeth and Early Twentieth-century Opera.” International Conference (Athens/online), European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA), 2021.
20. “Deconstructing the Myth of Cultural Purity: Rabindranath Tagore and the Great Silk Road.” International Symposium (Chengdu/online), ICTM Study Group on Global History of Music, ICTM/Sichuan Conservatory of Music, 2021.
21. “Theorizing Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Music: Adaptation-based and Semiotic Approaches.” International Conference (Montreal/online), American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), 2021.
22. “The Location of Theory: Postcolonialism in North America and India.” International Conference (New Delhi/online), Language Ideologies and the ‘Vernacular’ in South Asian Colonial and Postcolonial Literature(s) and Public Spheres, Jamia Millia Islamia/Freie Universität Berlin, 2021.

Selective list

1. C1973 Research Excellence Award, IIT Bombay 
2. Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching, IIT Bombay
3. SEED Grant, Government of India
4. Young Faculty Award, IIT Bombay
5. Stanford Mellon Doctoral Fellowship 
6. Steven Wisch Fellowship, Stanford University 
7. Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 
8. Research Visitorship, Balzan Foundation, for the project, “Towards a Global History of Music,” under the leadership of Prof. Reinhard Strohm 
9. Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF) 
10. George C. Metcalf Research Grant, Victoria College, University of Toronto 
11. Non-resident Junior Fellowship & Frederic Hudd Scholarship, Massey College, University of Toronto
12. University of Toronto Fellowship and Teaching Assistantship 
13. Paul Foundation Award (India) for doctoral studies abroad 
14. Hedy King Robinson International Award for Distinction in Theory of Music, Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, UK 
15. National Scholarship (Government of India) 

1. HS 4114: Music Analysis through Computing (with Prof. Preeti Rao, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay)
2. HS 834: Research Methodology (for PhD students)
3. HS 811: Literary Theory (for PhD students)
4. HS 809: Practice and Theory of Literary Research (for PhD students)
5. HS 678: Climate Change and the Environment: Scientific and Literary Perspectives (with Dr. Arpita Mondal, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay)
6. HS 660: Author, Authorship, and Authority (for MA by Research and PhD students)
7. HS 658: Literary Theory (for MA by Research students)
8. HS 642: Notation and Music Analysis
9. HS 450: Appreciation of Music
10. HS 431: Reading Fiction
11. HS 305: Reading Literature
12. HS 213: Language and Literature
13. HS 208: Approaches to Literature

SPARC Grant for the Research Project, “Translations in Colonial India, 1800-1947: Paradigms, Networks, and Practices,” Government of India (Rs 97 lakhs)