African language literature and the paradigm of world literature
Watch Nikitta Adjirakor explore the steadily emerging literary system and network of African language literatures, in this MULOSIGE seminar.
Looking East: Saqi and the World of Urdu Modernism Webinar
Prof. Jennifer Dubrow is Associate Professor of Urdu, with affiliate appointments in Textual Studies and the South Asian Studies Program in the Jackson School of International Studies. Her research and teaching focuses on modern Hindi and Urdu literatures; print culture and the history of the book in South Asia; and South Asian modernisms.
How Love is a Revolution: In Conversation with novelist Rana Haddad
Rana Haddad grew up in Latakia in Syria, moved to the UK as a teenager, and read English Literature at Cambridge University. She lived in London and worked as a journalist for the BBC, Channel 4, and other broadcasters. Rana has also published poetry and is currently mostly based in Athens. The Unexpected Love
International Literature and the Literary International
Elena Ostrovskaya, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of the Humanities at the NRU Higher School of Economics. Elena Zemskova, PhD, is an Associate Professor of the Faculty of the Humanities at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, teaching courses in Russian and Comparative Literature. International Literature and
Randomly Clear Choices: Literary and Cultural Journals in Inter-war Italy
The talk was given as part of the Magazine and World Literature Webinar Series. Randomly Clear Choices: Literary and Cultural Journals in Inter-war Italy This paper was given as part of the Magazine and World Literature Webinar Series. Abstract: In this paper, I take an historiographical approach to look at
‘Eating away the corners of (world) literature’: The littleness and the ‘wordliness’ of Indian magazines of the 50s-70s
Research Fellow, CNRS, Paris & Visiting Scholar, World Languages and Literatures, Boston University. ‘Eating away the corners of (world) literature’: The littleness and the ‘wordliness’ of Indian magazines of the 50s-70s Laetitia Zecchini from MULOSIGE on Vimeo. Drawing on my work on several Indian ‘little magazines’ of the 60s and
Blogging from Egypt: Digital Literature, Teresa Pepe
“Blogging from Egypt: Digital Literature” Teresa Pepe considers how Egyptian blogs can be read as world literature; recognising their literary and political innovations.
Born in the Village, Roaming the World, Sara Grewal
Sara Grewal (MacEwan University) discusses how Canadian Sikh hip hop artists “translate” the anti-majority racial politics expressed in Black American hip hop into an appropriation of the genre that captures the unique context of the Canadian Sikh diaspora.
Eastern Literature as Happenstance
Jia Yan is Assistant Professor of Hindi and Indian literature in the Department of South Asian Studies at Peking University. He holds a PhD in Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies from SOAS, University of London. His research interests include modern Hindi literature, post-1950 literary relations between China and India, and comparative/world literature.
The Poetics of the Orphan in Postcolonial Literature Talk
Listen to Matt Reeck (UCLA) give the talk: The Poetics of the Orphan in Postcolonial Literature