Heyman Center for the Humanities, Common Room
Associate Professor Baidki Bhattacharya from the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India will be presenting a public lecture . The lecture will be moderated by Professor of English at Columbia University, Brent Edwards.
Baidik Bhattacharya is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Delhi. His current research encompasses the future of postcolonial writing in the age of globalization and a critical evaluation of the current debates on “world literature.” He is the co-editor of The Postcolonial Gramsci (2011). His most recent publications are Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature: Texts, Territories, Globalizations (2018), “Reading Rancière: Literature at the Limit of World Literature” (2017), and “On Comparatism in the Colony: Archives, Methods, and the Project of Weltliteratur” (2016).
Bhattacharya has held visiting scholarships at the University of Virginia and the University of Western Cape. He will be part of the teaching faculty of Harvard University’s Institute for World Literature in 2020
