Zain Mian is a literary translator and researcher of Urdu literature, currently a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Friends, Caretakers, Countrymen: Shabḳhūn and the Reconciliations of Urdu Modernism In April 1966, the new modernist journal Shabḳhūn (or Night-Attack) broke onto the Indian literary scene.
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.
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
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
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
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.
Stefan Helgesson is professor of English at Stockholm University. His research interests include southern African literature in English and Portuguese, Brazilian literature, postcolonial theory, translation theory and theories of world literature. Literary Distance in Southern African Journals: The Case of Charrua Often short-lived, literary journals proliferated in twentieth century in
Professor Francesca Orsini gave this talk on "Literary Activism and Cold War Activism" as part of the Postcolonial Print Cultures reading groups and webinars.
