When:
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT
Where: University Hall, 202 (Hagstrum Room), 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Harris Feinsod
(847) 467-1762
Group: Workshop in Transnational Cultural History
Category: Academic
Akshya Saxena joins the Workshop in Transnational Cultural History to discuss her book Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (2022).
An excerpt will be available week in advance. Please contact Anna Zalokostas or Viola Bao for access.
Akshya Saxena is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She studied English literature at the University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, before earning her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of study are 20th and 21st-century literature and media of the English-speaking world, with a special interest in the racialized and caste-marked practices of mediation that shape language.
She is the author of Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (Princeton UP, 2022), and the co-editor of Thinking With An Accent (U of California P, 2023). Her scholarship can also be found in Cultural Critique, ariel, Interventions, and LARB.