Swapan Chakravorty is Professor of English and Joint Director, School of Cultural Texts and Records , Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is author of Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton( Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1996), and contributory editor, Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, gen.ed.Gary Taylor (Oxford:Oxford University Press, forthcoming). His books in Bengali include Bangalir ingreji sahityacharcha (Kolkata: Anustup, 2006) and Shakespeare (Kolkata: Papyrus, 2001).He has edited Print Areas: Book History in India (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004) and Mudraner sanskriti o bangla boi (Kolkata: Ababhas, 2007). Chakravorty has been published in books, journals and newspapers in India, Bangladesh, England, Scotland, Canada, the United States, Malaysia and Japan.