Siddhartha Biswas

Siddhartha Biswas, B.A. (Presidency College), M.A. (University of Calcutta), Ph.D. (University of Calcutta), is currently an Associate Professor in English at the Department of English, University of Cal-cutta. He has also taught as an Assistant Professor in English at the Department of English, St Paul’s Cathedral Mission Col-lege, Kolkata, for 17 years before joining the University.

His research interests include Modern and Post-modern Theatre, Translation Stud-ies, and Popular Culture. His doctoral work was on the screenplays of Harold Pinter. He has written a number of articles in the reputed journals in India and abroad. His authored books include The-atre Theory and Performance: A Critical Interrogation (Cambridge Scholars Pub-lishing, U.K.) among others. He has also translated a number of works among which his translations of The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night (Monfakira) may be mentioned.