Vanessa Guignery Talk: Whatever Happened to Hybridity in Postcolonial Studies?

Name: Vanessa Guignery Talk: Whatever Happened to Hybridity in Postcolonial Studies?
Start: 2017-04-04T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2017-04-04T18:30:00-05:00
Location: University Hall, Hagstrum Room (#201)

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CT

University Hall, Hagstrum Room (#201), 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

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Date: April 4, 2017

Time: 5 PM

Location: University Hall, Hagstrum Room (#201)

Title: Whatever Happened to Hybridity in Postcolonial Studies?

Vanessa Guignery is Professor of Contemporary English and Postcolonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a recent Harry Ransom Humanities Center Fellow. Her research focuses on literary genres and the poetics of voice and silence. This talk examines the forms and evolution of hybridity as a central concept in postcolonial literary and cultural studies.

This event is co-sponsored by the English Department.

Cost: Free

Audience

Faculty/Staff
Student
Public
Post Docs/Docs
Graduate Students

Contact

Scott Newman

scottnewman2020@u.northwestern.edu

Group

French Interdisciplinary Group

Co-Sponsor(s):

English Department

Interest

Academic (general)