the University of Chicago in 2008. Publications In addition to numerous chapters and poetry that Professor Seely has contributed to various books, following are the titles he has published so far. His upcoming book to be published from India is Barisal and Beyond: Essays on Bangla Literature. Rain through the Night. New Delhi: Hind Pocket Books, 1973 (revised by the author): Translation of a novel by Buddhadeva Bose. Women, Politics, and Literature in Bengal. Edited. East Lansing: Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1981. Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair: Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess. Boulder, Colorado: Great Eastern Book Co., 1982 (co-author, Leonard Nathan). Introduction to and translation of lyrics by Ramprasad Sen, Reprinted: Prescott, Arizona: Hohm Press, 1999. A Bengali Prose Reader for Second-Year Students. By Edward C. Dimock, Jr. and Somdev Bhattacharji, with Ronald Inden, Arati John, and Clinton B. Seely. Chicago: The University of Chicago, Committee on Southern Asian Studies, 1988. Intermediate Bengali prose reader. A Poet Apart: A Literary Biography of the Bengali Poet Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1990. Calcutta, Bangladesh, and Bengal Studies: 1990 Bengal Studies Conference Proceedings. Edited. East Lansing: Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1991. Bengal Studies: A Collection of Essays. Co-edited with Rama Datta and Zillur Khan. New Delhi: Allied Publishers Limited, 2001. Intermediate Bangla. München: LINCOM EUROPA, 2002. The Slaying of Meghanada: A Ramayana from Colonial Bengal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004 Computer software Professor Seely has written four computer software to facilitate language learning. These are: "FLASHWORD.Bengali," 1987. An electronic "box of flash cards" in Bengali and English for the Macintosh. "SCRIPT.Bengali," 1988. A Bengali orthography tutor. "HyperBengali.I," 1989. A HyperCard stack version of An Introduction to Bengali, Part I, by E.C. Dimock, et al. "LearnLetters," 1989. A Bengali alphabet recognition tutor. Awards Academic and literary awards received by Professor are as follows : National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, The University of Chicago, 1965–68 Foreign Area Fellowship, England, India, East Pakistan, & the US, 1968–71 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship, Bangladesh, 1981–82 American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Research Fellowship, India, 1982 "Ashoke Kumar Sarkar Memorial" Ananda Prize (Calcutta), 1993 Special Award, 2nd North America Bangla Literature & Culture Convention (Chicago), 1997 Dinesh Chandra Sen Research Society's "4th Annual Award for Excellence in Research in Bengali Literature" (Calcutta), 1999 Distinguished Service Award, Cultural Association