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

Francesca Orsini, "Studying, Strolling, Overhearing: Poetry in Multilingual Early Modern North India" - Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture

March 27, 2023

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Francesca Orsini is a reader in the literatures of north India at SOAS, University of London, and works with Hindi, Urdu, and Indo-Persian texts. She is interested in the ways in which a multilingual approach to literary history can challenge identitarian approaches to literary history in India and also provide an appropriate model for understanding the dynamics of world literature from the bottom up.

Homer Statue
Wilson Hall 142
4:30-6:00pm EDT