Archival Research in World Literature
In this post, Fatima Burney interviews David Hirsch, the former librarian for Jewish, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, South Asian, and Armenian Studies at UCLA, on matters related to archival resources in Urdu.
A Case of Exploding Markets: Latin American and South Asian Literary “Booms” in a Comparative Perspective
This excerpt is taken from an interview with Professor Kantor and Dr Fatima Burney about Kantor's upcoming book Even If You Gain the World: The Rise of South Asian Literature in Light of Latin America.
Retrospective: MULOSIGE roundtable on Aamir Mufti’s Forget English!
Fatima Burney looks back at our roundtable discussion with Professor Aamir Mufti and explores the consequences of his latest book, Forget English!, for the MULOSIGE project
Landscapes of a Lyric Empire
Presenting the comparative poetics of Sir William Jones to demonstrate the role of orientalist readings of ghazals in the history of lyricization. Jones was one of the first litterateurs to treat ‘lyrick’ as a universal category and to translate Persian ghazals as ‘lyricks’. Dr Fatima Burney (SOAS)
MULOSIGE Team Events
Over the course of the MULOSIGE project, the team has co-ordinated a number of events, as well as overseeing projects and conducting fieldwork. Explore our full list of events, publications and projects here. Publications Title Date Team Member Bibliography ‘Reading Together: Hindi, Urdu, and English village novels’ 2017 Francesca
A Case of Exploding Markets: Roanne Kantor
A Case of Exploding Markets: Latin American and South Asian Literary “Booms” in a Comparative Perspective Roanne Kantor at the Jaipur Literary Festival Dr. Roanne Kantor is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at University of Texas, Austin and
MULOSIGE’s Special Issue Part II: Worlding Genres and Refractions
Professor Francesca Orsini and Laetitia Zecchini compiled Part II of the Special Issue: The Locations of (World) Literature: Perspectives from Africa and South Asia - Worlding Genres and Refractions. Orsini, Francesca and Letitia Zecchini (eds.) Special Issue: The Locations of (World) Literature: Perspectives from Africa and South Asia - Part II: Worlding Genres
“Reading together” in multilingual contexts beyond monolingual methodologies
The conference programme for "Reading Together" in Multilingual Contexts Beyond Monolingual Methodologies, to be held in Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, Naples 11-12 April 2019.
Comparison as Relation: Multilingual literary regions and comparative colonialisms
A three-day workshop (14, 15 and 16 December 2017) hosted by MULOSIGE in collaboration with the Raza Foundation (New Delhi) and Delhi University
The West-Eastern Lyric: Modernist Poetry between Asia and Europe
A one-day workshop organised by MULOSIGE (SOAS, University of London) in collaboration with the Centre for European Literature, University of Kent
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