University of Virginia, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

"The Cambridge History of World Literature" Launch Event w/ Debjani Ganguly, Francesca Orsini, Jahan Ramazani, and B. Venkat Mani

May 27, 2021

On May 27th @ 4-5 pm BST and 11-12 pm EST, Please join us for a virtual launch event for the forthcoming The Cambridge History of World Literature, edited by Debjani Ganguly. Debjani Ganguly will be on a panel alongside Francesca OrsiniJahan Ramazani, and B. Venkat Mani

 

Debjani Ganguly is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia. She works in the fields of world literature, postcolonial studies and South Asian studies. Her research interests include novel studies, theories of world literature, global Anglophone literatures, technologies of war and violence, literature and human rights, planetary humanities, caste and dalit studies, and Indian Ocean literary worlds.

Francesca Orsini is a literary historian at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies working primarily with Hindi and Urdu materials and interested in exploring how multilingualism worked and continues to work within the literary cultures of South Asia. 

Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of a number of books of criticism on poetry, including Poetry in a Global Age (2020) and Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres (2013).

B. Venkat Mani is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also affiliated with the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture and the Institute for Regional and International Studies.

 

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