Back and Forth: The Grotesque in the Play of Romantic Irony

Siddhartha Bose is a Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing and Drama at London Metropolitan University. He was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London (2011-13), where he also completed a PhD, for which he won an ORSAS award and a Queen Mary research studentship. He has published and delivered papers on European Romanticism and aesthetics. He has also taught courses on Shakespeare, critical theory, and poetry. Siddhartha is also an acclaimed poet, playwright and performer whose books include Kalagora and Digital Monsoon. He has been featured on BBC 4 and BBC Radio 3, and was dubbed one of the 'ten rising stars of British poetry' by The Times. His theatre work includes Kalagora, which had an acclaimed run at Edinburgh Fringe 2011, London's Perverted Children, long-listed for an Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award, and The Shroud, which premiered in 2014. Siddhartha has performed extensively in the UK and internationally and is a recipient of awards from the Arts Council England. He recently guest edited a special issue of the international literary journal, Wasafiri (Routledge, UK/ USA) and has completed an ethnographic film on Mumbai, Animal City.