Read Francesca Orsini's chapter "Reading Together: Hindi, Urdu, and English Village Novels." In: Ciocca, R. and Srivastava, N., (eds.), Indian Literature and the World: Multilingualism, Translation, and the Public Sphere. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 61-85.
An introduction to Francesca Orsini's book chapter "Na Turk, na Hindu: Shared language, accents and located meanings" in A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamic in India.
An introduction to Professor Francesca Orsini's article: Present Absence Book Circulation, Indian Vernaculars and World Literature in the Nineteenth Century, published in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
The 'Multilingual Literature Review and Publish Project is an opportunity for readers of world literature to contribute to the MULOSIGE website with reviews or blogs on texts in languages other than English, particularly those from the Global South.
Listen to Matt Reeck (UCLA) give the talk: The Poetics of the Orphan in Postcolonial Literature
Hosam Aboul-Ela's work examines the point of connection between the literary and the social through the historicization of critical theory. He is the author of Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariátegui Tradition (U of Pittsburgh P, 2007) as well as Domestications: American Empire, Literary Culture, and the Postcolonial Lens (Northwestern, 2018). He has also translated Voices by Soleiman Fayyad
Re-Orienting Modernism: Mapping East-East Exchanges Between Arabic and Persian Poetry In this talk, Levi Thompson will argue for a new direction in comparative literary studies by analysing close formal and thematic links between Arabic and Persian modernist poetry. Through re-mapping the history of modern poetic development, he argues for a re-orientation of modernist studies
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
Watch Professor Francesca Orsini discuss "Narrative and literary history: the lessons of Jayasi’s Padmāvat" on the panel Beyond Diglossia, Legitimation and Patronage: Multilinguality, Genre and Innovation. Her talk is followed by Pankaj Jha, who speaks on “Locating Texts within Multilingual contexts: Reading Literature as a field of Politics”.
Claire Ducournau is a tenured Associate Professor in Literature at Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3 University, and a member of the RIRRA21 research center. Her work centers on francophone African writing, publishing and media. She is particularly interested in how sociological research methods and close textual analysis can be combined to explore African literature in
