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We're delighted to announce that Professor Kumar, University of Delhi and Leverhulme Visiting Professor, will give a series of lectures in Spring 2009.
We are very pleased to welcome Professor Kumar as a visiting professor to the School.
Professor Kumar has been awarded a Visiting Professorship by the Leverhulme Trust to work with Dr Baidik Bhattacharya and Dr Neelam Srivastava. He is a world-renowned expert in postcolonial studies, with particular reference to Indian literature and culture. His publications include The Joycean Labyrinth: Repetition, Time and Tradition in Ulysses (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991), and several papers on Indian literature, life writing, and literary theory. He is at present completing his new book, Styles of the Self: The Subject and the Act of Self-Articulation in Modern Malayalam Writing. Areas of his current research include: a cultural history of the body and questions of modernity; postcolonial fiction; modern subjectivities in India, with special reference to Indian autobiographies; and the formation of a literary public sphere in Kerala, South India.
He will co-develop and co-teach modules on Indian literature and will advise PhD students in areas of postcolonial studies, Indian literature and contemporary literary theory. He will be giving two series of lectures - a series of 5 Leverhulme lectures on 'Indian Modernity and its Autobiographical Imaginaries' and lectures to postgraduate and advanced undergraduates on postcolonial theory and Indian literature. He will also give two research seminars.
The Leverhulme Lectures, entitled ' Indian Modernity and Its Autobiographical Imaginaries', will take place at 5pm in Seminar Room 1, First floor, Percy Building on the following dates:
Wednesday 29 April: 'Individuals, I-Statements, and the Public: Reflections from India'
Wednesday 13 May: 'The Making of New Subjects: Women and the Domain of the Everyday in Nineteenth Century Life Writing'
Wednesday 20 May: 'Gandhi and Nehru: Subjective Truth and Paradigms for the Modern Nation'
Wednesday 27 May: 'Autobiography as a Way of Writing History: Vernacular Personal Narratives and Genres of Public Memory'
Tuesday 2 June 2009: 'Self-Narration and Humiliation: The Political Subject in Dalit Autobiographies'
Abstracts for the Leverhulme Lectures can be found here.