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Shifting Ecosystems of South Asian Literature in Translation - Jason Grunebaum

Friday, November 21, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM CT
Crowe Hall, #1-132, 1860 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

The Translation in Theory and Practice Series presents:

A workshop with Jason Grunebaum, Instructional Professor of Hindi and literary translation (University of Chicago); founder and co-director of South Asian Literature in Translation (SALT) to support and promote South Asian literature in translation; and winner of the very first Humanities in Translation (formerly Global Humanities) Translation Prize.

Jason Grunebaum's translations from Hindi include Uday Prakash’s The Girl with the Golden Parasol and The Walls of Delhi, and, with Ulrike Stark, Manzoor Ahtesham’s The Tale of the Missing Man. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a PEN/Heim Translation Grant. 

Lunch will be served. RSVP to complit@northwestern.edu

Presented by the Kaplan Humanities Institute and the Program in Comparative Literary Studies.

Cost: Free.

Audience

  • Faculty/Staff
  • Student
  • Post Docs/Docs
  • Graduate Students

Contact

Jill Mannor   (847) 467-3970

jill.mannor@northwestern.edu

Interest

  • Academic (general)

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