Clinton B. Seely

Clinton B. Seely is a prominent scholar of the Bengali language and
literature. He is Emeritus Professor of Bengali at the Department of
South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
He has written a biography of the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das
and has translated Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s Meghnadbadh Kavya
into English. His other works include Barisal and Beyond: Essays on
Bangla Literature, Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair: Selected Poems to
the Mother Goddess and the edited volumes, Women, Politics, and
Literature in Bengal and Bengal Studies: A Collection of Essays.
Seely has received, among several other academic and literary awards,
the ‘Ashoke Kumar Sarkar Memorial’ Ananda Prize in 1993 and
the Dinesh Chandra Sen Research Society’s ‘4th Annual Award for
Excellence in Research in Bengali Literature’ in 1999.