Somdatta Mandal

Somdatta Mandal is Professor of English and former Chairperson of the Department of English and Other Modern European Languages at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. Her areas of interest are contemporary fiction, film and culture studies, diaspora studies and translation. A recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships, she has been published widely both nationally and internationally. She has also received a Sahitya Akademi award for translating short fiction. She has...See more

Somdatta Mandal is Professor of English and former Chairperson of the Department of English and Other Modern European Languages at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. Her areas of interest are contemporary fiction, film and culture studies, diaspora studies and translation. A recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships, she has been published widely both nationally and internationally. She has also received a Sahitya Akademi award for translating short fiction. She has written two academic books and edited and co-edited twenty books and journals, including two anthologies, Indian Travel Narratives (2010), Journeys: Indian Travel Writing (2013) and two translations, The Westward Traveller by Durgabati Ghose (2010), with a foreword by Ashis Nandy, and Wanderlust: Travels of the Tagore Family (2014). Another narrative, Bangamohilar Japan Jatra and Other Essays [A Bengali Lady's Trip to Japan and Other Essays] by Hariprabha Takeda, with a foreword by Michael H. Fisher will be published in 2015. At present, she is translating some travel narratives by Rabindranath Tagore (Pather Sanchoy and Pathe O Pather Prante). See less