Ananta Charan Sukla

Who is Ananta Charan Sukla?

Professor Ananta Charan Sukla is a philosopher of art, religion and language, translator, and scholar of comparative literature. Sukla is a former professor of English and Comparative Literature at Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha, India. He is an alumnus of Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.

Sukla is the founder editor of the international half-yearly Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, a publication for the promotion of multidisciplinary studies and research in literary culture established in 1977. He is the founder director of Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, also established in 1977.

Sukla has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Liverpool, Cambridge, Cardiff, Lampeter, Uppsala, Siena and Helsinki as well as several Indian Universities. He is an honorary member of the LORO Group of Studies in Comparative Aesthetics, Italy.